Developmental Trauma Training Institute

Developmental Trauma Training Institute We equip professionals with the skills to recognize and treat trauma.

We envision a world where children, adults, families & communities can access effective treatment and support healing from Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE’s) and truly thrive.

Let’s be honest — A foundation in Brainspotting is harder to learn on Zoom.Not impossible. Just… harder.Three full days...
03/30/2026

Let’s be honest — A foundation in Brainspotting is harder to learn on Zoom.

Not impossible. Just… harder.

Three full days on a screen?
Attention drifts.
Subtleties get missed.

And this work depends on those subtleties.

Because relationships matter in healing.
And learning attunement happens in relationship.

In person, you:
• stay more present
• catch what’s easy to miss
• practice with real-time support

Build your foundation in the room — and it’s fully transferable to Zoom therapy.

Start in the room. Take it anywhere.

Minneapolis, MN April 24-26: https://accswi.com/etn/brainspotting-phase-1-bloomington-mn-april-24-26th/

Bozeman, MT May 1-3: https://www.eventzilla.net/e/brainspotting-phase-one--inperson--bozeman-mt-2138678530

You’ve talked it through.They’ve made connections.There’s insight.But the same patterns keep showing up.This is somethin...
03/28/2026

You’ve talked it through.
They’ve made connections.
There’s insight.

But the same patterns keep showing up.

This is something many therapists are navigating right now.

Brainspotting Phase 1 offers a different way of working — one that helps you follow and support what’s happening beneath the level of words.

You learn how to:
• Track your client’s internal experience
• Use eye position to access deeper processing
• Stay with the process instead of trying to direct it

And here’s the thing — this work is felt as much as it is learned.

That’s why training in person can be so impactful.

You get to:
• Practice in real time
• Experience Brainspotting yourself
• Receive support and feedback as you learn
• Build confidence in what you’re noticing

There’s something powerful about being in the room — both for your learning and for how you begin to show up in your work.

We’d love to have you join us:
Minneapolis, MN April 24-26: https://accswi.com/etn/brainspotting-phase-1-bloomington-mn-april-24-26th/
Bozeman, MT May 1-3: https://www.eventzilla.net/e/brainspotting-phase-one--inperson--bozeman-mt-2138678530

03/26/2026

Shame is one of the most powerful — and least understood — forces shaping human experience.

Shame: The Land Between Living and Dying

A 3-day online training exploring how shame shapes identity, influences relationships, and impacts trauma work.

Starting tomorrow, March 27!

Join us for a deeper exploration of how shame forms in relationship, organizes identity, and shows up in the body and in clinical practice.
Register Here: https://www.eventzilla.net/e/shame-the-land-between-living-and-dying--online-training-event-2138677752

Experiences that weren’t responded to don’t just disappear.They go quiet.They get pushed out of awareness.They lose a pl...
03/25/2026

Experiences that weren’t responded to don’t just disappear.

They go quiet.
They get pushed out of awareness.
They lose a place to land.

So when sensation, emotion, or need begins to surface,
it isn’t just expression—it can feel like risk.

For many clients, somatic therapy isn’t about change.

It’s the first experience of having a body where sensation, emotion, and need don’t lead to loss of connection.

If you want to go deeper, read more here: https://substack.com//note/c-232818580?r=2myroj&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

03/24/2026

What if the way you’ve been relating to yourself isn’t actually who you are?

Sometimes it sounds like:
“I’m already bad… so what’s the point?”

Sometimes it looks like never getting it wrong.

Or feeling like you have to stay above it all.

In this week’s Trauma Responsive Tuesday, Steve Sawyer named three ways shame can show up:
• I am bad, so I might as well be bad
• Hyper-perfectionism
• Narcissistic traits

Different expressions—same root.

And underneath it, a deeper question:
When am I allowed to be good?

“I am only good if…”
“I am only good when…”

What comes up?

Because these beliefs don’t come out of nowhere—
they’re shaped in experiences where something felt like too much, too soon, or not enough.

What was shaped in experience can begin to shift in experience—
through awareness, honesty, and connection.

If this resonates, we’re continuing this work in our upcoming Shame Course through DTTI—
creating space to explore these patterns together, not just intellectually, but in a way that includes your whole system.

You don’t have to keep carrying this the same way.
And you don’t have to do it alone.

Interested in the Shame Course ? https://www.eventzilla.net/e/shame-the-land-between-living-and-dying--online-training-event-2138677752

There’s something powerful about coming together in spaces where depth, curiosity, and connection are truly welcomed. Ho...
03/23/2026

There’s something powerful about coming together in spaces where depth, curiosity, and connection are truly welcomed. Honored to have been part of the Digging Roots Brainspotting training in Wichita KS.

Deep appreciation to Kari Quring for the steady support throughout, to Wichita State University Wise Center for sponsoring this gathering, and to Dr. Jody Fiorini for hosting with such care and intention.

Grateful to everyone who showed up in person, making space for connection, learning, and practice—continuing to grow this community through real, heartfelt relationships.

Go to the roots!

You could feel it the moment you walked in—something real was happening in the room 🤍A space for connection, learning, a...
03/23/2026

You could feel it the moment you walked in—something real was happening in the room 🤍

A space for connection, learning, and practice—where people showed up fully and something meaningful unfolded between us.

Thank you to Kari Quring, Wichita State University Wise Center, and Dr. Jody Fiorini for making it all possible.

Grateful to everyone who showed up in person, making space for connection, learning, and practice—continuing to grow this community through real, heartfelt relationships. 🩶Digging Roots Brainspotting training in Carmel, IN

What’s driving it matters.How we stay with it matters.In trauma work, these aren’t separate.We’re often tracking deep de...
03/20/2026

What’s driving it matters.
How we stay with it matters.

In trauma work, these aren’t separate.

We’re often tracking deep developmental patterns
while also staying present with moments of high activation

Digging Roots supports clinicians in accessing and understanding what’s driving those patterns — how identity, relational expectations, and adaptations take shape.

High Acuity Care (HAC) supports clinicians in staying steady and working safely with intensity as it emerges in real time.

They aren’t meant to be taken in order.

They are complementary ways of strengthening our work — depending on what our clients need, and what we’re being asked to hold.

Together, they support both:
→ insight into the roots
→ and capacity in the moment

📩 Learn more from Steve Sawyer’s newest blog, https://healingattheroots.wordpress.com/2026/03/20/subject-deepening-trauma-work-with-brainspotting-from-roots-to-high-acuity/

Interested in upcoming trainings? https://www.dtti.co/upcoming-training-events

You already know Brainspotting opens access to what words can’t reach……but sometimes, what shows up is developmental, pa...
03/19/2026

You already know Brainspotting opens access to what words can’t reach…
…but sometimes, what shows up is developmental, patterned, and relationally organized.

Digging Roots: Brainspotting Training helps BSP therapists:
✨ Work with developmental trauma
✨ Recognize protective patterns as intelligent adaptations
✨ Stay present when intensity or fragmentation emerges

Not another technique — a deeper lens for what’s already happening in your sessions. 💡Interested in learning more? Check out our upcoming trainings - April in Camel, IN - May in Asheville, NC - Aug, Rapid City SD - Link in bio to upcoming trainings

You’ve seen the power of Brainspotting in your practice. You know how accessing the subcortical system can unlock proces...
03/19/2026

You’ve seen the power of Brainspotting in your practice. You know how accessing the subcortical system can unlock processing beyond words.

And yet… some patterns don’t fully shift.

Not because the client isn’t ready, or the brainspot isn’t there —
but because what’s organizing their experience is developmental trauma, protective adaptations formed before language, and relationally structured patterns.

Digging Roots: Brainspotting Training brings a trauma-lens specialty for BSP therapists:
• Work with developmental and attachment trauma
• Recognize protective patterns as intelligent adaptations
• Stay present when shutdown, fragmentation, or intensity arises
• Deepen your relational field alongside Brainspotting

It’s not about another technique — it’s about meeting what’s already happening in your sessions at a deeper level.

📅 Learn more & register for Carmel, IN April April 17,18,19:
https://www.eventzilla.net/e/indianapolis-in-digging-roots-foundations-amp-in-person-digging-roots-10-2138677687

Can’t make Indiana?
Asheville, NC May 15-17: https://www.eventzilla.net/e/raleigh-nc-digging-roots-foundations-amp-in-person-digging-roots-10-2138684014

Rapid City, SD Aug 14-16: https://www.eventzilla.net/e/south-dakota-digging-roots-foundations-amp-in-person-digging-roots-10-2138675747

03/17/2026

Stressed out? Feeling reactive?

You’re not “too sensitive” or “overreacting.” Your responses may be doing exactly what they were shaped to do.

Many of our stress responses are rooted in early experiences—at home, in school, and in the environments that first taught us how to stay safe in the world.

In today’s DTTI Facebook Live, Steve walks us through four core survival fears identified by Anna Freud during WWII, based on her work with combat survivors and children in orphanages—what we now understand as relational trauma.

• Fear of annihilation (fear of dying)• Fear of abandonment• Fear of rejection• Fear of humiliation

These aren’t just ideas—they live in the body and silently shape how we respond, relate, and protect ourselves every day.

When we begin to recognize them, something shifts. We move from reacting… to understanding.

Watch the replay and see what resonates. You may start to see your responses—and others—with a little more compassion.



03/17/2026

Healing doesn’t start on the surface.
It begins in the places we don’t always see—the roots.

The patterns we carry, the ways we protect ourselves, the stories held in the body… they all have origins. And when we gently turn toward those roots with care, something begins to shift.

This is the heart of our upcoming DTTI trainings.
Creating space to explore what’s underneath—with curiosity, connection, and support.

Because when we tend to the roots, healing doesn’t just stay with us…
it begins to shape the way we show up in our relationships, our work, and the spaces we hold for others.

If you’ve been feeling the pull to go deeper—into your own experience and into how you show up for others—you’re not alone.

We’d love to have you with us.

Upcoming trainings are open now: https://www.dtti.co/upcoming-training-events

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