Awe in Trauma Dr Mark Grixti

This final section of the mini-series is short in length but deep in importance.  Damir explains how societal changes globally  illustrates to the brain-wise observer how our systems of perception are products of our implicit systems of prediction.  These come from our memory systems and a lifetime of experiences.  In other words, believing is perceiving. 

Extraneous events unfolding in the world continue to display how there are those that can tolerate and integrate new information that may clash with the internal models of experience and perception.  Otherwise, there are those that assume a more dogmatic position when new experiences challenge these dogmatic models of the world.  The resources to adapt and create new models is compromised resulting in extreme, divisive and dominating reactions.    This is a place whereby we see the amplification of bifurcation, the sophistication of nuance is lost and diversity is compromised.  The powerful 'elite', with the mouthpiece of the legacy media and big tech can then colonise* your brains, dominate your perception and infiltrate your reality.

*Colonisation = Claiming that something is an empty space, then the colonisers fill it with their values (Vandana Shiva).

For more information on Damir's work go to: https://www.damirdelmonte.com/


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In part 2 of this mini-series Damir explains the multi-dimensional functionality of the brain and the essential understanding that it's HOW we attend that completely changes what comes into manifestation.  We take a moment to understand the gravity of this idea as arbiters of the reality within which we reside.  From this position Damir describes how early and abusive experiences can drastically shape how a person's brain is sculpted and how this can impact on their relationship with all things.  Various types of sensory gating are explored and a recognition of the importance of safe touch in healing past wounds to be reunited with the one's own body.  There is so much hope that with the correct support and body based therapy such as Brainspotting, healing can happen through the immense neuroplasticity of the brain .  

For more information on Damir's work go to: https://www.damirdelmonte.com/
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Dr Melanie Young is a licensed psychologist with a private practice in Boulder, Colorado.   Melanie is a senior Brainspotting (BSP) trainer, consultant and certified Brainspotting therapist.  She assists individuals and couples with relationships, losses, and grief. Melanie helps navigate the challenges around brain injuries, ADD, pain, illness, and phobias. Specialties also include working with seniors, their families, and caregivers. She uses BSP as a tool to help heal trauma, increase effective coping strategies, strengthen internal resources, and enhance performance.
This wonderful episode takes the listener behind the scenes of what it's like to be a therapist/healer.  Melanie calls upon her wealth of personal experience as a Licenced Psychologist, as well as from those of a plethora of healers to explore the levels of protection that they utilise in working with so much pain and trauma.  We hear about how the healer can experience a range of symptoms that can result in burn-out, or compassion fatigue,  compromising their ability to thrive, work and be there for their people.  Whether you are supporting others in a formal psychiatric setting, a health institution or in the community, this episode provides insightful thoughts and practical ideas to be able to develop your own range of rituals and ceremonies to stay well in a demanding environment. Let the healers be healed.

For more information on Melanie's work go to:
https://melanieyoungpsyd.com/


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In part 1 of this 3 part mini-series, (double doctor in the brain) Dr Damir Delmonte illustrates to us how to position our understanding of the brain in this phenomenally beautiful exploration of how and who we think we are.  Damir sets the frame for this 3 part series though attending to the levels of consciousness, subjective qualia, the pathways of the polyvagal process, and all in an evolutionary context of 700 million years.  This episode is a beautifully humble and incredibly insightful understanding of the immensity of our being and our interrelationship with all things.  

For more information on Damir's work go to: https://www.damirdelmonte.com/
For more information on Brainspotting and to train with Dr Mark Grixti go to:
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This is part 2 of a 2 part series.  In this episode, Dr David Grand, founder and developer of Brainspotting Therapy gives a deep and insightful take on the implicit restrictions that organise our inner worlds.  Drawing on his own developments as a therapist and from neuroscience, we are invited to appreciate the healing power through the lens of the Neuroexperiential Model.   An alternative yet refreshingly humble and inclusive approach to therapy that is available to us through embracing an open, explorative, and non-expert approach.  This episode will invite the listener to reflect on patterns and procedures that they have automated through the mythical lens of truth and certainty.  In contrast, David gives an intriguing glimpse of how our approaches to healing can be optimised though the development of a deeply attuned, compassionate presence through curtailing the attachment to terms and concepts which can only ever be secondary to the infinite complexity of consciousness and the human condition.  The power to heal is in us all!

For more information on David Grand's work go to https://brainspotting.com/
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This is part 1 of a 2 part series and an episode that is a little different from previous ones.  We could not resist sharing with you some fascinating insights from David Grand, the founder and developer of the remarkable Brainspotting Therapy.  In this episode you'll experience 3 tantalising clips from a recent Brainspotting Phase 4 training that David presented in conversation with Mark Grixti and a remarkable group from the Brainspotting community.  This episode takes a profound and insightful de-construction of the experience known as 'dissociation', which is a part of the natural and incredible human experience of survival and adaptation.  Far from being a 'disorder' David offers up a new and alternative away to conceptualise dissociation in the form of 'sensory gating'.  He  guides us through an exercise that you can experience first hand to deepen your understanding of the essential nature of the human filtration system to inhibit specific information in order to prioritise other senses to ensure survival.  As David affably sets out an alternative frame for our understanding of processing with dissociative barriers in our work, a liberation can be experienced with a refreshed appreciation of the miracle of the human system.  From this place our approaches to healing are imbued with positivity and potentiality that are central to the Brainspotting Neuro-Experiential Model.

For more information on David Grand's work go to https://brainspotting.com/
For more information on Brainspotting and to train with Dr Mark Grixti go to:
https://bspuk.co.uk/trainings-and-events/
https://www.facebook.com/brainspottinguk
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/awe-in-trauma/id1580294433?i=1000543054793
https://twitter.com/BrainspottingUK
https://www.instagram.com/brainspotting_uk/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-wfQEAwQX3qr36zkhh9J0g