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A therapist sits across from a client in a bright, sunlit therapy office, holding one finger upright as a visual focus point while the client looks calmly toward it. Headphones rest nearby on the table, suggesting a Brainspotting session setup in which focused eye position and steady attention are used to support deeper processing.

Free Brainspotting Course

Explore this free Brainspotting course from IFS Academy, written in plain language for everyday people. Learn what Brainspotting is, how fixed eye position connects to the nervous system, and how the course covers setup, locating techniques, the Resource Model, therapist stance, specialty applications, and daily practice.

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A client sits peacefully in a bright therapy office with one hand resting on her chest while the therapist observes and writes nearby. The warm daylight, calm posture, and grounded atmosphere represent what Brainspotting reveals about healing: that the body can process, integrate, and settle in ways that words alone may not reach.

Module 10 — What Brainspotting Reveals About Healing

This free Brainspotting lesson explores what the modality reveals about healing itself. Learn why insight is not always the active ingredient, how the body already knows where material is held, why slowness and silence matter, and how the therapist creates conditions for the brain’s own healing capacity to unfold.

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A client reclines on a therapy chaise in a bright, sunlit room, wearing headphones with her eyes closed and one hand resting on her chest, while the therapist sits nearby in calm, attentive presence. The image represents the Brainspotting stance that holds the work, showing how grounded, steady, nonintrusive support can create the conditions for deep processing.

Module 8 — The Stance That Holds the Work

This free Brainspotting lesson explores the stance that makes the work possible. Learn how Dual Attunement, uncertainty, Tail of the Comet, therapeutic silence, the No Assumptions Model, and nervous system awareness shape the way a practitioner holds a Brainspotting session.

Brainspotting Course

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A woman sits quietly in a sunlit room with a notebook in her lap, holding a pen near her chin while her gaze stays fixed out the window. The still posture, natural daylight, and focused expression suggest the Brainspotting idea that a fixed gaze can touch deeper emotional processing beyond ordinary talking.

Module 2 — Why a Fixed Gaze Touches What Talking Can't

This free Brainspotting lesson explains why insight alone does not always change the body’s reactions. Learn how fixed eye position can help access subcortical material, why the body stores charged experiences differently than ordinary memories, and how Brainspotting works below the language layer.

Brainspotting Course

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🎯 Module 4 — Workability and Creative Hopelessness | ACT Course

A free IFS Academy course on workability and creative hopelessness in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): the control agenda and experiential avoidance, why suppressing feelings backfires, the workability question, clean pain and dirty pain, the struggle switch, and dropping the rope. Every lesson ends with an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy practice so you can begin applying the skill.

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The Final Freedom: Nothing Left to Say, No One Left to Say It (Ashtavakra Gita, Chapter Twenty)

A free reflection on Chapter Twenty of the Ashtavakra Gita, The Final Freedom, the closing chapter of the whole dialogue, read through Internal Family Systems (IFS). Explore the king's final dissolution of body, mind, teaching, and even the "I" that had been speaking, into the bodiless freedom (videhamukti) where the dialogue trails off into silence, and how IFS distinguishes the genuine Self that holds every part with room to spare from a part that uses the language of no-se

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Resting in One's Own Majesty: Where Did It All Go? (Ashtavakra Gita, Chapter Nineteen)

A free reflection on Chapter Nineteen of the Ashtavakra Gita, Resting in One's Own Majesty, read through Internal Family Systems (IFS). Explore the king's exultant sweep through every pair of opposites, the tweezers of knowledge drawing out the last thorn of thought, his amazed "where is it now?" from the throne of his own being (svamahima), and how IFS distinguishes a genuine spaciousness in which the old troubles have lost their grip from a part that prematurely declares th

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