The words that get used all week, in plain terms. Useful if your earlier phases were a while ago, or if you want to check a term without interrupting a demonstration.
The frame
The therapeutic container the two of you hold together: the issue, the activation, the spot and the attunement, all in one. It has a soft, shifting shape, and part of the work is noticing when you are inside it and when you have drifted out.
Activation
The felt charge that comes up when a client turns toward an issue. Where you feel it in the body is the anchor for everything that follows.
SUDs
Subjective Units of Distress, zero to ten, the client's own report of how strong the activation is. Used to open a frame and to check movement, not to grade it.
Gazespot
A place in the visual field where the activation is strongest, or where the felt sense is most resourced. Found by following the client's reflexes, not by measuring.
Inside and Outside Window
The two ways of locating a spot: inside, where the client reports which position holds the most activation; outside, where the therapist watches for the reflexive signal.
Bodyspot
A place on the body that holds the activation, found by the client's own touch or pressure, with the eyes locking on a gazespot at the moment of contact. Not acupressure and not tapping.
Expansion
The opposite axis from distress: instead of ten down to zero, zero out to infinity. The same body site that held vulnerability becomes a site of possibility.
Dual attunement
Holding the relational connection and the brain-body focus at the same time. Neither one alone is Brainspotting.
Focused mindfulness
The quality of attention the client brings: staying with what arises, without steering it or explaining it.
Uncertainty principle
The stance of not knowing where the process is going, and letting that be workable rather than a problem to solve.
Squeezed Lemon Zero
A zero that has been checked and rechecked and holds, the point where the trauma frame has finished processing.
Multispotting
More than one spot in play in the same frame, held together rather than worked one at a time.
Resource
A spot, image or body sense that carries steadiness rather than charge, used to widen capacity before or during processing.
These are working definitions for orientation during the training, not the manual's own wording. David Grand's manuals remain the authority.