Sounds True Presents: Brainspotting

This course is informative and really well constructed for someone learning about brain spotting for the first time. I highly recommend it. Also, Dr. Grand is a fabulous teacher. Really enjoyed this course.

It is my Rogerian base; love of attachment, development, EMDR and neuroscience that has kept me in love with my profession helping clients heal. So many trainings for so many years but few new tools. Thanks.

I love motivational interviewing for clients coupled with EMDR, guided imagery and hypnotherapy that is cheering inside right now. I was excited back in the late 60s when I first learned about right and left lookers. Looking forward to rest of the training.

I used to think I was slow until I was well into the doctorate program when I found I had an ipsalateral suppression to the right hemisphere when it came to processing of certain kinds of information. I suspected this would lead to better ways for healing. I also had always had opthalmological migraines as a very young child that caused curtains over my eyes, but never had the kind of parents who worried about such things. It was not until I was much older that these caused a stroke. So glad you addressed facial problems in the orbitol area. This all is so important as that brainstem goes through this area from the Polyvagal nerve.

Wish I had had this kind of turf sharing all these years. Best turf sharing was the Biology of Music Making in the 70s in Denver, Colorado. I hope this kind of sharing has a resurgence. I hope between you, Levine, Siegel, Porges, and others can make some great strides before I retire or die. Just your comment “no turf when it comes to healing” made my day.

I have always had problems even though I researched just why EMDR had been so affective, only to see when I got clients who had been doing it for 8 years from other therapists, that they were still significantly reactive for that many years of treatment. It made me so skeptical of the EMDR I used with other methods for PTSD. I am hoping this will help with the vets I see.

Confused as to why I kept literally falling asleep during the skater falling. this went on throughout the whole presentation until I gave up and tried to review what I had missed in between these lengthy naps.

I got worried as to what I had missed, then after doing the QA for the skater, I went to the conclusion and saw this experiential exercise that I had not known was there. I instantly knew why I had slept through the skater.

In 2002 I had a right ischemic stroke and was paralyzed. Learned how to walk again in four months of hard work and diligence, but then I got cocky and was galloping down the stairs of my home and hit the bottom stair wrong and my foot went backward.

I had to have my friend have to put the foot back as I knew in my body I could not pass out with this wave of nausea until my foot was back or falling on it would have damaged the body more severely.

Since that event, they rushed me to the ER. The fibula and Tibia had been broken severely and I had emergency surgery. They told me at the time if my friend had not done that I would have lost the leg. Well, due to that fall the stroke recovery was then at a standstill to rejuvinate the motor planning center where the stroke had originated..

From that time on, I have falen 6 times and damaged 8 bones.

Today with this experience, I knew you said not to go to something difficult but my brain did not think I just sent to that fall, opened my eyes, went to focal point easily and that incident would not go away.

First I realized the sensations and the numbness in that leg and foot is always there, it tingled more but my leg kept wanting to move and wiggle around and as I type it still does. When you had us go back to the event, I instantly got nauseated and I sure knew where that came from. I never deviated but will continue to do this at later time this weekend to see if I can get over what has become a major fear of walking down a curb or stairs and see if I can get rid of this fear.

I was wondering if I could just use this same last exercise with clients who have multiple traumas who know of them through counseling and let them tackle whatever comes to mind and not do the wand thing if this worked so profoundly for me with just one of many falls and stroke?

I do hynotherapy but nowadays folks are nervous about it for whatever reason, this might be an avenue for them to get comfortable with this or guided imagery to allow them to not be so skeptical and then do the wand for more specificity once they are not afraid.

I found I do the EMDR protocol but must say for many reasons it has not been as satisfying because of the distance between them and the light bar. I also think I will use sound now rather than the pulses in the hand.

I shall practice on this last experience this weekend, but am worried about passing out as that experience is really terrifying, as that wave of nausea and almost passing out in two of the other falls did occur, one when I was doing an ITA for the hospital, but I continued on to do the commitment with a broken Right arm and cut left hand.

I know my job has created some extreme neuro associations since I also broke three rib, still did a suicide assessment outreach when on call, before I went to the ER for my ribs.

The people are all fine but I need to be fine too. Tired of all the falls and fears that arise. thanks for another avenue to see what can be done as I turn 70 in two days and still am counseling, enjoying the new revelations thoroughly. I took this course for the clients, never thinking it might be also affected for me.

The mind and brain are my passions since I was 4 years old when I used to wonder if people “thought.” not realizing the word I was questioning. Thanks for sharing your experise with us all and I will enjoy adding more training in this process.

I did the experiential exercise again today and found that the fall and broken bones were not the focus, as my left eye kept twitching and reminded me that I had opthalmoligical migraines with a curtain over my left eye, which let to actual migraines on the right hemisphere and eventually led to the stroke, so it seems my brain was processing the cause of my fall ultimately, as I still have left sided problems from the stroke. I shall keep allowing my body to hear with this technique and hope it is helpful to my clients as well.

I enjoyed begin the eclectic nature of David Grand. He strikes me as a very high functioning ADHD type, and I mean that with the utmost respect. Being one myself, I have found brainspotting to be a powerful tool to help clients work towards healing whatever ails them, from life traumas to toothaches. It’s my secret weapon and I have enjoyed the course immensely due to the restrictive nature of EMDR training typically begin available only to “masters level” clinicians. Hearing that “there is no turf when is comes to healing” was something that I wholeheartedly agree with. Obviously one should have a baseline, prerequisite knowledge of EMDR, trauma disorders, etc., and hold themselves to high ethical and professional standards when doing this kind of work, it is something that can come through reading appropriate texts, clinical supervision, and a real world experience working with clients, with or without having a masters degree. “First do no harm” — don’t open up pandoras box (my phrase for big T trauma) without have the tools, time, or technique, to close it appropriately.

Great Course. Besides all the technical stuff, I extremely value the mindset of David Grand: resource-orientated, appreciating the autonomy of the clients, relational-focused, humbleness and “cultivated dumbness” when it comes to answers and explanations for this and that inside the clients. You rarely see this attitude at therapists, especially in that consequent way (except for schools that are explicitly based on that principles).

I also appreciate the demonstrations very well and the sensitivity to theoretical aspects. The demonstrations are actually really inspiring, since the humble, but at the same time very confident attitude of David is something that really makes me wanting to make it my own style (and doing it in my own style, of course!)

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