Brainspotting and Inner BlindSpot Work
The Brainspotting and Inner BlindSpot Work training focuses upon the psychological and emotional blind spots that each of us have in our functioning and interactions in life. The blind spot assessments, prep work, and didactic presentation materials, assist each participant in recognizing personal and client BlindSpots. Once there is comprehension of the unconscious BlindSpots, the application of the unique Inner BlindSpot Work ways of setting up and receiving the client’s frame, enables processing of the BlindSpots and facilitates the development of subcortical clarity and wisdom.
“Unti...Read morel you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” - Carl Jung Through a series of playful metaphors for BlindSpots, the Brainspotting and Inner BlindSpot Work training facilitates the freedom from these unconscious and implicit forces through processing on the BlindSpots and on the Vision and Wisdom Spots. Less...
Learning Objectives
- 1. Implement the pre-training inventory and blind spot assessments with clients, as well as on personal blind spots.
- 2. Conceptualize awareness and the unconscious shadow
- 3. Describe what blind spots are and how they may impact a person’s full range of interacting, functioning, and excelling in life.
- 4. Differentiate types of blind spots and how to identify them.
- 5. Illustrate blind spots through metaphors
- 6. Navigate attunement to the individual client with flexible Inner BlindSpot Work guidelines for processing.
- 7. Demonstrate basic Brainspotting and Inner BlindSpot Work set ups for processing blind spots.
- 8. Integrate knowledge gained from observing an Inner BlindSpot Work demonstration and two Inner BlindSpot Work practica experiences, one as a client and one as a therapist.
Target Audience
Learning Levels
- Intermediate. Pre-Requisite: Completion of Phase 1 Brainspotting training is required. Phase 2 is recommended.
Saturday, May 04, 2024
09:00 AM PDT - 06:00 PM PDT
Register for this WebinarAbout the speaker
Connie Johnshoy-Currie, Psy.D.
Agenda
9:00 am Welcome, Introductions, Overview
9:30 am BlindSpot Experiential Exercise
- The “BlindSpotting” Story
10:00 am The Nature of Awareness and the Shadow
10:30 am
Break, 15 minutes
10:45 am The Viewing Lens and Listening Ears: the 6 F’s of Trauma Response
11:00 am Blind Spots
12:15 pm Lunch Break, one hour
1:15 pm Setting Up Inner BlindSpot Work
2:00 pm Inner BlindSpot Work Demonstration
3:00 pm Debrief, Q & A
3:15 pm Break, 15 minutes
3:30 pm Inner BlindSpot Work Practicum
5:30 pm Debrief, Q & A
6:00 pm Closing
CE Information - Earn 7.5 CE Credit Hours including
7.5 Clinical Hour
CE Approvals
New York State Education Department's State Board for SW
Association of Social Work Boards
National Board for Certified Counselors
New York State Education Department's State Board for LMHC
Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an
approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health
counselors. #MHC-0284.
New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners
CE Process Info
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