Long before I trained in Brainspotting, I realised that freediving was revealing something far more interesting than breath-hold ability. In fact, when I first began teaching freediving, I originally wanted to call my school Deep Reflections because I was fascinated by the way diving seemed to reflect our internal state.

A Brainspotting Personal Intensive is an extended experience that condenses what might take months of weekly sessions into one, two, or three consecutive days of focused, uninterrupted work. I think of it as akin to a personal retreat.

Brainspotting was first developed with a performance context in mind. Dr David Grand discovered it while working with a figure skater who had carried a performance block for years, despite weekly EMDR sessions. After one 10-minute experience of what was to become Brainspotting, the figure skater’s performance block was gone, forever.