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Quick reference

BIPOC Brainspotting · Phase 4 All four frame set-ups on one page

Quick reference

For the practicum table. The full pages carry the helper notes and the callouts.

Projected Image Spotting
  1. Ask whether the client is visualizing the image
  2. “Where do you see it on the wall behind me?”
  3. Gaze at that spot and process
  4. Periodically guide them back to the image
  5. Let the ending be organically determined
Dreamspotting
  1. The client presents a dream
  2. Ask first whether they are visualizing it
  3. “Where do you see the dream on the wall behind me?”
  4. Gaze at the Dreamspot, follow the processing
  5. Periodically return to the dream
  6. Let the end be organically determined
Expansion Model
  1. Return awareness to the original body vulnerability
  2. Explore the experience of expansion in the body
  3. Locate the expansion spot (multispotting is common)
  4. Hold the Expansion Frame together and follow
  5. Brief or extended processing, both are fine
Bodyspotting
  1. Hand the pointer to the client
  2. They touch and press a spot on their body
  3. Notice where the eyes lock as it presses
  4. Process from the paired bodyspot and gazespot
  5. Two or more pointers if it fits
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