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.

Some clients require more than our standard approaches.When working with complex trauma, dissociation, addiction, chroni...
06/04/2026

Some clients require more than our standard approaches.

When working with complex trauma, dissociation, addiction, chronic dysregulation, self-harm, or persistent distress, clinicians are often called to bring deeper attunement, flexibility, and presence into the therapeutic relationship.

In just 7 days, join Steve Sawyer and Jeff Ryan for the online High Acuity Brainspotting 1.0 Training.

You’ll learn:
• Window of Tolerance assessment and tracking
• Regulation and relational assessment tools
• Island Building for stabilization and resourcing
• Specialized Brainspotting frames for high-acuity clients
• Advanced attunement skills for complex clinical presentations
• Practical applications you can immediately integrate into your work

High-acuity clients deserve approaches that honor both the depth of their suffering and their capacity for healing.

Join us June 12–14 online via Zoom.

Register here:
https://accswi.com/etn/high-acuity-brainspotting-1-0-training-2/

06/04/2026

Shame places us between belonging and abandonment.

It can feel like being trapped between wanting connection and fearing it at the same time.

For many people, shame isn't simply an emotion—it becomes a way of living. A place where isolation, self-criticism, and disconnection take root.

Join us for "Shame: The Land Between Living and Dying," an online training that explores the origins of shame, its impact on development and relationships, and pathways toward healing.

This training is designed for clinicians, educators, helping professionals, and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the human experience of shame.

Virtual July 31, Aug 1 & 2 - Learn more and register:
https://www.eventzilla.net/e/shame-the-land-between-living-and-dying--online-training-event-2138672869

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06/02/2026

Why do the same painful patterns keep repeating across relationships, families, and generations?

In this Facebook Live, Steve explores Carl Jung’s metaphor of water and the unconscious to understand trauma reenactment—the unseen currents that can shape our lives beneath awareness. From generational trauma to acute experiences, including domestic violence and sexual abuse, unresolved wounds often seek expression through repeated patterns, relationships, and circumstances.

When we begin to recognize these waves of history as they move through us, we create the possibility for something different. Awareness is not the end of healing—it is often where healing begins.

What if shame is the piece that’s been quietly shaping so much of what people carry?Shame can influence relationships, s...
06/01/2026

What if shame is the piece that’s been quietly shaping so much of what people carry?

Shame can influence relationships, self-worth, decision-making, perfectionism, and the ability to connect authentically with ourselves and others. Yet it often remains unseen and unspoken.

Join us for Shame: The Land Between Living and Dying, an online training taking place July 31, August 1 & 2. Together we’ll explore the impact of shame through a trauma-informed lens and discuss ways to recognize and work with its effects in meaningful and compassionate ways.

✅ Online Training
✅ Designed for clinicians, helping professionals & those who’d like to learn about shame
✅ Early Bird pricing available now

Join Steve Sawyer & Josh Delahan
✨Register:
https://www.eventzilla.net/e/shame-the-land-between-living-and-dying–online-training-event-2138672869

As the mental health field continues to evolve, so does our understanding of trauma and recovery.Honored to be facilitat...
05/31/2026

As the mental health field continues to evolve, so does our understanding of trauma and recovery.

Honored to be facilitating Trauma Sensitive Yoga Training in Milwaukee, WI, and virtually with HIR Wellness Institute.

This evidence-based, body-based approach is recognized as a treatment for complex and developmental trauma and offers clinicians and helping professionals an opportunity to deepen their understanding of trauma-sensitive, choice-based practices and the role of the body in trauma recovery.

What continues to inspire me about this work is the commitment of professionals who are willing to keep learning, growing, and expanding the ways they support healing. Every training is an opportunity to explore new perspectives, strengthen clinical skills, and deepen our capacity to meet people where they are.

Grateful to be part of a community dedicated to advancing trauma-informed care and creating more possibilities for healing, connection, and recovery.
✨Register Here: July 18 & 19 : https://www.openviewyoga.com/product-page/trauma-sensitive-yoga-foundations-july

05/30/2026

What if what you’re carrying doesn’t need more words—but a different place to be met?

Join Steve Sawyer in Rapid City, South Dakota for
Brainspotting Phase 1

June 5–7, 2026 | In-Person

This foundational training introduces Brainspotting as a focused, experiential approach for working with trauma, emotional overwhelm, and the deeper patterns held in the nervous system that talk therapy alone often cannot always reach.

Alongside lecture, demonstration, and practice, participants will have space to integrate learning in the natural landscape of South Dakota, allowing the rhythm of the environment to support reflection, grounding, and deeper processing throughout the training experience.

Rooted in clinical depth and lived experience, this training is designed for therapists, clinicians, and helping professionals ready to expand how they work with clients beyond language.

When words aren’t enough, something else becomes possible.
🧠Register: https://www.eventzilla.net/e/brainspotting-phase-one--inperson--rapid-city-sd-2138675750

05/28/2026

So much of healing is learning that familiar does not always mean safe. At DTTI, we help clinicians and helping professionals understand how early experiences shape patterns, perceptions, and the ways people return to what they know — even when it hurts.

Healing begins when awareness, connection, and new experiences create the possibility for something different.

Even small moments of safety, attunement, and connection can begin to reshape a person’s relationship with themselves and the world around them. What has been carried for years does not have to define the future. Change becomes possible when people are supported in experiencing something new.

Now introducing: The Digging Roots Brainspotting Advanced Clinical Immersion Course — by popular demand - and honestly, ...
05/27/2026

Now introducing: The Digging Roots Brainspotting Advanced Clinical Immersion Course — by popular demand - and honestly, we think the name fits the experience!
More depth. More connection. More integration. More about immersing yourself in learning!

Curious on what the course is all about? Join our upcoming info session to learn more, ask questions, and get a feel for the experience. We’d love to have you there - prerequisite to course: Digging Roots 1.0
🔗Virtual info session: https://www.eventzilla.net/e/free-digging-roots-master-class-discussion-event-2138671269

🔗Course it’s self is in-person or virtual, Bloomington MN: https://www.eventzilla.net/e/digging-roots-master-class-2138676913

Will we have more opportunities for this course in the future? Absolutely!

05/26/2026

“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.” — Thích Nhất Hạnh

Why is change so hard?

Today on the DTTI Facebook Live, Steve Sawyer talked about how the brain is wired toward what feels familiar — even when those patterns create suffering.

A person may deeply want change, like stepping away from addiction or unhealthy patterns, yet under stress return to what is known. Not because they do not care or lack insight, but because early experiences shape the way the brain and body learn safety, survival, and connection.

The frontal lobes may understand change logically, but lasting transformation often requires more than insight. It requires embodied, integrative experiences that help the whole system experience something different.

Under stress, we often return to what is familiar. Healing grows through repeated experiences of safety, connection, and new possibilities.

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