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San Diego CA: Digging Roots Foundations & In Person Digging Roots 1.0

Friday, Oct 9, 2026 at 9:00 AM to Sunday, Oct 11, 2026 at 6:00 PM PDT

Che Ajal Family Counseling Center, 2820 Camino del Rio S , 310, San Diego, CA, 92108, United States

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Friday, Oct 9, 2026 at 9:00 AM to Sunday, Oct 11, 2026 at 6:00 PM PDT

Che Ajal Family Counseling Center, 2820 Camino del Rio S , San Diego, CA, 92108, United States.

Your registration for this bundle will include both Foundations .5 online course and Digging Roots 1.0 in person course. Once you register, you’ll receive a follow-up email with detailed, step-by-step instructions on how to access the online platform and begin the Foundations .5 Course. This will include everything you need to get started at your own pace.

Foundations .5 Course (Must have Completed Prior to 3 Day in Person)

The Foundations online (Kajabi) course provides a thorough grounding in the theoretical framework of developmental trauma, which you can complete at your own pace. Assignments help you explore activities for use with developmental trauma clients, enhancing activation access during sessions. You'll also engage in personal activations. This intensive dive into assessment and activation access may benefit from supportive discussions and Brainspotting-focused follow-ups.

Foundations Course Learning Objectives:

  • Key research findings on Developmental Trauma
  • Misdiagnoses like ODD, ADHD, GAD, and their links to trauma
  • Proposed Developmental Trauma Disorder diagnosis
  • Trauma-focused assessments
  • Techniques for deepening emotional access with clients
  • Exploring the 24-hour flashback concept
  • 16 CE's available upon successful completion within 30 days of completing Digging Roots in person 3-day course

Live Workshop

Day One: Examining the Dual Attunement Frame in Developmental Trauma

Learning Objectives:
  • Dialing in on Dysregulation
  • Friending Defensive Structures
  • Common Brainspotting Responses from DT
  • Trenching: Narrowing down to Precise Activation Access

Day Two: Healing Internalized Childhood Capsules

Learning Objectives:
  • Re-Examining Parts work
  • Clean Language
  • 2 Demonstrations and 2 Practicums

Day Three: Healing the Child Within

Learning Objectives:
  • Healing Key Childhood Moments
  • Adoption and Relinquishment Strategies
  • Strategic Re-Integrating Survivors for lasting result
  • 24 NAADAC CE's available to purchase

***Must have completed Brainspotting Phase One to attend***

***If you cancel at any point after recieving your pre-course material you will only recieve 2/3 of the cost of your registration fees***

Please email info@stevesawyerlcsw.net with questions

 

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About Organizer

Steve Sawyer LCSW CSAC Dynamic Interventions LLC Owner, Co-Founder Brainspotting International Senior Trainer Heartmath Interventions & Resilent Heart Programs Co-Author Wellbriety Mending Broken Hearts Trainer Steve is a dual licensed psychotherapist filled with passion and knowledge surrounding the intervention and change process. His experience comes from two decades of intervention with tough to reach client populations in therapy settings ranging from residential, community based, outpatient and wilderness therapy. He is a trained trainer of several unique therapeutic models including Brainspotting, and HeartMath. Steve co-founded New Vision Wilderness Therapy programs with a trauma informed and clinical focus with 3 locations spanning the country. He continues to work as a core therapeutic training development staff with the Institute of HeartMath receiving their Humanitarian Heart award in 2018 and he is a leading active International Brainspotting trainer. Along with his training of Phase 1 and 2, he developed the Developmental Trauma Focused Model of Brainspotting. Steve’s Native focused work is as a Wellbriety Mending Broken Hearts trainer and Generation Red Road facilitator. Steve spends time amongst trauma focused treatment master’s like Gabor Mate and Bessel Van Der Kolk. Steve’s trainings are recognized nationwide for cutting edge therapeutic techniques, science, and inspiration.

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