Developmental Trauma Training Institute

11/01/2025

The deeper we go, the more we discover — healing begins where words end! Step into Digging Roots 2.0 – where Brainspotting therapists explore the body’s hidden stories and the pathways to profound regulation and repair.
This advanced training is designed exclusively for Brainspotting therapists who have completed Digging Roots 1.0 (Fundamentals) and are ready to go further. Together, we’ll deepen our understanding of how early trauma becomes stored in the body and how to support clients in releasing those physiological “capsules.”
🔍 Core Concepts Covered
Building Interoceptive Capability
The Six Building Blocks of Self-Regulation
Understanding Hypoarousal and Collapse Responses
Attachment Physiology & Eating Issues
Sleep Disturbances & Nighttime Fears
Strategic Animal-Assisted Therapy Approaches
🧠 For: Brainspotting Therapists (Prerequisite: Digging Roots 1.0)
📍 Location: Sioux Falls, SD Nov 7-9
🎓 Focus: Deepening embodied understanding and integration for advanced trauma healing
Join us as we dig deeper!
Register: https://www.eventzilla.net/e/digging-roots-20-digging-deeper--sioux-falls-sd-2138662551

10/30/2025

What if faith, the middle space, wasn’t about belief, but about being here — right now? Keri Sawyer explores how presence and consistency become the pathways that carry us from hope into embodied faith.

She spoke beautifully about the middle space — that place where healing lives, in between what was and what isn’t yet. Keri reminded us that showing up with consistency through presence — noticing and being with our bodies — helps our nervous systems begin to feel safe.

When we practice presence, we create new experiences that live only in the “now” — not in the past or future. This is where real transformation begins.

Next, we’ll move into Embodied Trust.
In the meantime, Keri is beginning a personal 90-day journey of Presence, and you’re warmly invited to join! She will be live every morning for 10 minutes simply showing up, moving and being present.

You’re welcome to join as often or as little as you’d like — or perhaps follow along as I track my experiences with this daily consistency. Let’s explore together what unfolds when we keep returning to now.

90 Days of Presence: Begins November 1 | 5:30 AM PT | Facebook Live
Tune in here:
https://www.facebook.com/openviewyoga/live_videos/

Embodied Faith, The middle Space: http://openviewyoga.home.blog/2025/10/30/embodied-faith-staying-in-the-middle-spac

10/29/2025

Here's what Ashley had to say about her Digging Roots journey...

After completing
✔️ Digging Roots Foundations 0.5
✔️ Digging Roots 1.0 Fundamentals
✔️ Digging Roots 2.0: Digging Deeper

Ashley says "I am learning how to drop into their trauma capsule and I'm not just brain spotting the leaves on the tree as Steve likes to say."

Yesssssss!!!! 🥳🥳🥳 Witnessing deep healing ✨️

"I cannot recommend this enough. I could go on and on. I had the opportunity to do a demo with Steve and even if you don't demo with Steve, just the opportunity to watch him brain spot is truly transformative.

His attunement is something that I can't really put into words but to witness it allows you to see how deep clients can go without you doing anything but just holding the space and that human connection."

Thank you, Ashley, for your kind words ❤️

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If you're Brainspotting trained and interested in embarking on your own Digging Roots journey, consider joining us...

Digging Roots Foundations & In Person Digging Roots 1.0

Digging Roots 2.0: Digging Deeper

10/28/2025

If you’ve ever wondered how you’ve made it this far—this one’s for you. Just
like trees drawing nourishment from their roots through the cold of winter, we too carry an inner strength that sustains us through life’s hardest seasons.

Whether you’ve grown up with developmental trauma or faced life’s unexpected storms, you are proof of resilience and fortitude. You’re still here. Your roots run deep. 🌱

Let’s move away from seeing ourselves through the lens of pathology and fragility — and instead, begin to recognize the powerful resilience that’s been there all along.

Watch the replay, reflect, and share one way you’ve noticed resilience showing up in your own life.

Together, let’s celebrate the strength within.

Interested in watching more videos like this? https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC3R5OAxyijH4gc8Ho9oInyA

10/25/2025

A Practice: Finding Hope Through Subtle Movement

Take a quiet moment.

Notice any part of your body that wants to move — even slightly.

Maybe your fingers shift, or your shoulders tilt, or your gaze softens.

Let that impulse unfold naturally, without judging or forcing it.

As you move, notice what changes.

Does your sense of balance, warmth, or awareness shift — even a little?

That small difference is the beginning of hope: the lived experience that things can change, however modestly.

10/24/2025

10/22/2025

🌱 Why take Digging Roots - the Developmental Trauma Model of Brainspotting 🧠

👉 Because healing developmental trauma means more than learning techniques — it means learning to see the roots beneath the behavior.

When we slow down and listen for what’s driving the survival patterns — the shame, the shutdown, the striving — we begin to understand the story the body has been telling all along.

Digging Roots helps clinicians and practitioners go into the deep soil where safety, connection, and regulation can finally grow.

This work isn’t about fixing. It’s about remembering — the body’s innate capacity to move toward healing when given space, attunement, and understanding.

🌱 Come learn to listen below the surface.

Digging Roots 2.0: Digging Deeper

Digging Roots 2.0: Digging Deeper

Digging Roots Foundations & In Person Digging Roots 1.0

10/21/2025

Sometimes hope feels far away—hard to find through our thoughts. Yet often, it can begin in the body: through a gentle shift in awareness, a softening toward our own felt experience, a subtle sense that something within us is still reaching toward light.

In her recent Facebook Live, Keri Sawyer explored Embodied Hope—how hope can be felt, not forced, and how presence and movement help it take root again.

This reflection will soon be followed by Embodied Faith, a continuation of Keri’s work exploring healing and our own body’s wisdom.

Stay tuned to Keri’s blog, Stepping Into Wellness, as the conversation continues—one step, one breath, one reflection at a time : http://openviewyoga.home.blog

Would you like to vide more videos from DTTI? Check out the utube channel: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC3R5OAxyijH4gc8Ho9oInyA

10/15/2025

🧠 Have you already been Brainspotting Phase 1 trained??

👉 Consider joining us in Bend, Oregon This weekend - RETAKES ARE 50% OFF🥳🥳

⚠️ Why consider a retake? 👇👇👇

📌 Integration at a Deeper Level
*Your understanding of Brainspotting evolves as your clinical experience grows.
*The first time, you’re learning the mechanics; the second time, you’re seeing nuance: how attunement, dual attunement frame, and client pacing actually play out session to session.
*Retaking Phase 1 helps you integrate the “felt sense” of the model, not just the steps.

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📌 Sharpening Technique and Confidence
*Many therapists say the second round is where the “click” happens.
*You’ll refine your eye position skills and your ability to track the body.
*You’ll gain more fluidity moving between Inside Window, Outside Window, and Gazespotting setups.
*Practicing with new partners gives you real-time feedback and confidence that your instincts are landing well.

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📌 Learning from a New Trainer and Community
*Every trainer brings a unique energy, examples, and demonstrations.
*You’ll hear new clinical applications and ways of framing the work.
*Reconnecting with the Brainspotting community deepens your professional support network—and reminds you how powerful it is to be in a room full of attuned healers.

10/15/2025

Why am I doing this work?”
For those of us who serve in trauma-informed fields, this is not a question to ask once and forget. It is one to return to again and again. Our answers shift as we grow, as our lives change, and as we deepen in our own self-awareness.

Regular reflection helps us notice what drives us, what sustains us, and where we may need to pause. Without it, we risk slipping into old patterns—sometimes ones that can unintentionally cause harm.

Many practitioners are called to this work from a place of deep compassion, empathy, or lived experience. But there are also unconscious beliefs that can draw us here….. READ MORE:
http://openviewyoga.home.blog/2025/10/13/why-are-we-doing-this-work-reflections-for-trauma-informed-practitioners/