State of the Art Therapy
DEVELOP THE SKILLS TO BECOME AN INCREDIBLE SOMATIC THERAPIST
A one-year online training program with
all of my topic classes and my monthly group supervision
Unlike standard therapy education and other body-based methods that only teach, I show you how to show up, make those internal shifts, and hold the spatial healing group field. You help more clients faster, don't get burned out, feel lit up after a days work, and have endless word-of-mouth referrals.
Imagine the smile on your face, when, at the grocery store checkout, you overhear people behind you mentioning your name!
You are so incredible in your profession that people are doing your 'word of mouth' marketing!
Imagine the satisfaction you feel inside, when your client reports that what happened last week in your session made a world of difference, and they actually had the difficult conversation they had been avoiding!
It makes a world of difference to your life when your clients thrive!
Imagine coming home from a really fun and enriching day in your office, where you treated clients of all ages.
You would never feel bored or have empty hours, because you expanded your scope of practice,
and your wait list is growing!
Imagine that you creatively used your body, mind, heart, and wisdom in each and every session.
You would feel like an artist professional!
I can help you so that
YOUR PROFESSION
Becomes Your Daily ART Form
Wouldn't you love a waiting list?
And
Imagine you could be a working professional, and get an advanced degree without going into debt!!
And, that you were integrating so much of your life experience with solid psychotherapuetic/neuroscience embodied relational knowledge!
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6 Content online Courses guided live with Annie
Help people with all their needs..Birth Trauma (good for adults too!), Adoption, Play Therapy, Relationship/or couples needs, Complex Trauma, and of course, The art of Play
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Get an MA or Ph.D in Somatics...learn Incredible Somatic Wisdom
Geeky neuroscience blended with the art of movement interventions, touch skills, developmental awareness, attachment needs, and the art of staying relational even when stressed! Interested in a degree via my affiliation with University of Integrated Learning? Details Here!!
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Personal Healing
You learn experientially, which means you will bump into those inner places of pre-cognitive experience and be guided along your own healing journey.
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Supervision
Get Annie's insights and support for your own work with clients. Learn how to apply body-based interventions
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Teaching Assistant Options
Take your skills to the next level and assist Annie in her online classes
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Observation and Assessment Skills
in-person 4 day retreat
Gain access to Annie's over 45 years working with clients of all ages through bodymind relational, neuroscience interventions. Travel to:
Boulder, CO (camping and meals fee additional.charge)
Become an incredible therapist. Gain
in-person training in movement and hands-on application/skills. Plus witness/learn Annie's skills in facilitating Group Dynamics.
True coaching or therapy, satisfying therapy, is where you get results and your clients get results, you are fulfilled, and they are challenged, supported, and GROWING. This type of work is an art form. It demands skills, psychological understanding, embodiment, and learning to listen to the bigger muse in each and every therapy session.
Learning the art of Therapy is what this Advanced Training is about!
You have access to amazing resources which will turn your work into an art form. I have bundled for you my major online training courses and you can join me ON THE LIVE SESSIONS to benefit from my expertise.
There are 2 tiers of involvement. Read on to see Tier 1 and Tier 2.
1 year commitment
Level 1-Tier 1 $7625/year with payment plan options...6 courses, your own healing and integration; exquisite training for seeing clients.
You can't go wrong with this bundle of courses; you have a full year's guidance with master therapist, Annie Brook live.
That's like getting weekly access to Annie's selective calendar!
Plus you get a community to "heal with!" Not invasive, but understanding, and you participate through creating art as you go through your healing journey via the closed facebook group. (students rave about that support, and Annie checks in there weekly)
Hear what past participants have shared...
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I don't have the right words for it all, because there should be so much more than this. But I am so grateful for you and for your work with me. The impact you had on me, looking back, feels like it should have been impossible for so much to have changed or even to have started in such a rough state and gone anywhere at all. This time with you is undoubtedly among one of the most important experiences of my life. Thanks for helping me really know with certainty I'm not broken.
-Anonymous
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"All the many years of prior therapies, meditation, BMC, different approaches are coming together in this push practice for me – supported and initiated by our course here – and specifically, I believe by becoming aware somatically of cloudy, foggy , dissociated and many other existential somatic states in combination with BRAIN states as well as having a CONTEXT and VOCABULARY like for example "need shock“ or "spatial shock“ and so on. Thank you for bringing all of this together, for your personal process that made this possible and for making it available." ...RS
Gain professional and personal insights through these topic-specific courses; they overlap because this work is deep, and it takes you time to go through the nuances of integrative healing at so many levels!
- Healing Birth Trauma (EBOOK BIRTH'S HIDDEN LEGACY VOL 1&2 INCLUDED)
- Healing Complex Trauma (WORKSHEETS INCLUDED)
- Relationship Ready and Secure Attachment (RELATIONSHIP READY Ebook INCLUDED)
- Healing Adoption Imprints (ebook The Adoptive Parent's Handbook included)
- New Years Master Class in Vision Manifestation
- 3 Days of Play (a must for therapists! AWAKENING THE CREATIVE MIND EBOOK INCLUDED)
- Play Therapy
Note: If you have already taken those courses once, you can repeat,
or may be offered the chance to be a teaching assistant (by application)
Plus more juicy good learning and bonuses...
- In Person: Two 5-day retreats in Boulder, Colorado. Learn touch and movement skills and understand from the inside out how to heal spatial shock! (Note: Annie Brook reserves the right to adjust this offering due to STAT member availability). (additional enrollment cost per 5-day Retreat. Meals & lodging not covered)
- Inner Work: MOVEMENT/ MEDITATIONS plus Reflective WORKSHEETS: writings/theory, readings)
- Ebooks (with every course. Outside US, purchase hard copies separately due to shipping)
- Healing Sessions during the Live classes, plus 4 individual sessions with a trained therapist (cost between $75-$125)
MA or Ph.D option
You are getting the best of my over 45 years sitting in the hot seat in diverse locations with diverse clients! This includes my work with: gang youth, families, traumatized children at Children's Hospital, work with sexually abused foster children in an afterschool program, public school elementary students as therapist in the classroom, guiding clients who were adopted and adoptive families with parenting challenges, helping children and adults with sensory issues, work in agency Mental Health clinics, work in public schools as therapist in the classroom, as a university professor (Director of MA track in Body Psychotherapy for Naropa University, and as Artist in Residence, Naropa BFA in dance), and...
45 Years of Private Practice experience: supervision, practice management, client management, avoiding burn-out, co-founding Colorado Therapies, where I offered 8 two-year live trainings (pre-CoVid), founding THE BROOK INSTITUTE, where I see clients from all over the world, and share the geeky somatic tools that heal for clients and professionals.
You are getting DIRECT Skills APPLICATION SUPPORT: written and visual case studies of sessions (used with permission, only in this program). You can see the choices I made and track the unfolding of a client's sessions; find out why I made those choices during student Q and A.
I can mentor you in outreach: As an author of 8 books on Somatic skills and healing, as an International Conference presenter, including Keynote presenter, I know how to share this work. Finding your voice, and learning how to show up and market is key and I can help you do so. Even mentor you through an MA or Ph.D degree!
You are getting my over 45 years of State of the Art Embodiment and meditation training: Body-Mind Centering, Yoga, Cranial Sacral and VM Manual therapy, Movement education, Contact Improvisation, Sufi studies, Native American studies, Buddhist studies, clairvoyant energy studies; all inform the guided meditations and movement practices in the courses. Plus a bonus tab where you will find pdf's, audio guided practices, and video guided movement practices to help you re-pattern your body-mind.
Need more convincing? You get Personal Growth that benefits your profession.
If you are a helping professional or coach and want your work to be your art, you must know this work from the inside out. My state of the art training course teaches you the essential skills of how to hold space for working with early shock imprints and compensations in the body-mind. My experience is that one cannot treat others until you have done your own inner work and healed much of your own shock imprints. You get that support by taking the live classes.
You will become more embodied simply by taking these classes: Embodiment is the latest wave in coaching and therapy, and for good reason! It's time to awaken your clients so they can access their own healing! The inner work involves physical sensations, emotions, and belief structures; often those that were created as protective identifications to give meaning to overwhelming experiences.
- Cognitive: Dismantling double bind thinking, self-attack thinking, integrating personal life experiences
- Emotional: attachment styles, dominance, encapsulating, enmeshing behaviors dismantled
- Physical: Healing Need Shock, Using Movement and body-based interventions that reinform the brain
These courses will enhance your ability to stay present under stress as a helping professional, to help clients to choose new behavior options that are more nourishing, and for you to maintain nervous system health when working with clients. You teach clients to find a nervous system balance with healthy rest and healthy activity, and the ability to reach and choose healthy social connections. That is satisfying!
Clincial Skills
You will get clinical guidance via my books, demo sessions within courses, and case studies.
You will learn how to set up your office, use props, and how to work specifically with birth trauma.
This work is not linear. Personal and Professional will interweave. Be prepared to take time to integrate; to research and apply your new skills with your clients, to notice when triggers arise in you as a clinician, how to address them in the moment, and to seek professional support as needed.
Video waiver:
Your purchase of State of the Art Advanced Training Course serves as a waiver for video release of the recording content of videos in the courses.
You can avoid personal visibility by turning off your video share, and still participate in the chat section of the call anonymously if you so choose.
The recorded calls may be made available to others wanting to learn and grow as part of shared resources for ongoing learning.
Testimonials
Healing Birth Trauma Course
"As a Somatic Movement Educator (a student of Body-Mind Centering for over 25 years), and someone who has their MSW, Annie's work helped not only bridge my mental health training with all the somatic work I have done, it opened up new worlds in my own healing process via the realms of Perinatal Psychology (grounded in embodiment). I feel like I am just beginning- I feel greatly resourced from her Healing Birth Trauma course and sessions, I am feeling pretty excited and fearless, and yet wiser and more relational, about doing more of this work in the future!" J
"I found Annie to be very skilled in holding the space of the collective and tending the field. I am in awe of how much I could learn from her, almost to feeling intimidated! Yet I have a new spaces within self- seeds to sprout and nourish- that I believe will allow me to become more and more regulated both in relationship with others and relationship within self. These are big gifts!" anonymous
Relationship Ready Course
"there is not a day that goes by that I am not grateful for Annie and her body of work. The birth patterns that were held in the cells of my body affected all of my relationships ~ I feel blessed to now have a large toolbox of resources and the somatic re-learning of memories my body knew but my mind and heart couldn't remember ~ all of my relationships transformed and I have a language and deep understanding with which to work with them from!" JR
"In Relationship Ready Annie lovingly takes us through early imprints that underlie our adult connections, then provides practices for inner work on the path to deepening intimacy. Annie’s view into adult relationship is from the inside out and this book is a gem for all of us."
Anna Penenberg M.A., healer and author of Dancing In The Narrows
Amazing Resources for your learning
Practice and Guidance so you can educate your clients!
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Tier 1 Dates and Details
Year 1:
- Sept: Healing Infant Memory Course starts (9 modules)
- October: Healing the Adoption Imprint starts (10 modules)
- October: Play Therapy and Infant Memory starts (10 modules)
- Jan: New Years Master Class Vision Manifesting
- February: Relationship Ready course starts (6 modules)
- April: Healing Infant Memory spring section starts. (9 modules) Option to repeat and be an assistant
- May: Healing Complex Trauma using Applied Neuroplasticity (ANP) starts (10 modules)
- June: 3 Days of Play (Awakening the Creative Mind)
- "Summer Camp": Your in person retreat in Boulder, CO. Learn touch, movement and spatial skills that can only be taught in person. (you can attend offered retreats at a later date if needed).
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Access to Q and A with Annie Brook
Annie has worked with hundreds of people wanting intimacy and given them practical life changing tools that work. She is a unique educator who understands real life struggles. Learn these tools and how to apply them for yourself!
What are my time commitments in this program?
Participation hours will be 1.5 hour classes 1-2 times a week most weeks. Some weeks may have 0-3. Group supervision is 2 hours a month.
You can flexibly watch recordings for times you miss, but live attendance will allow you to get the most out of the training. The more you put into it, the more you get out of it.
Self-Paced Study Hours
In terms of self-paced hours, that is your own choice.
You want to be familiar with the theories, embodiment practices, and the books that go along with each course.
Each course has recorded zoom calls from previous classes, plus the current class is uploaded in case you need to miss a class.
Some classes have reflective writing, theory, embodiment explorations.
Healing Birth Trauma (HBT) is my signature course, and it has 9-1 hour videos, plus 10-30 minute+ case studies.
These go along with the case study write-ups in Volume 1 of Birth's Hidden Legacy.
Reading assignments for HBT are: Birth's Hidden Legacy Vol 1 & 2, and From Conception to Crawling.
My books are written in a simple, easy-to-understand format and language, so not so tedious academically, and I hope exactly what you are interested in learning :)
The other courses all have short books, plus zoom videos. Some have power points as well.
How does the Teaching Assistant Program work?
When you have completed year one you may be offered the option to be a TA. This means you will assist and facilitate breakout groups within the live call classes. This gives you direct experience to witness, support, and perhaps clarify questions within a small group format. You gain insight into the impact and inner workings of shock and trauma within course participants and get the experience of being in the more professional rather than personal learning seat.
How does the Intership Therapist role work?
Once you have completed year one you can apply to sit as an intern with STAT. This means I would refer you clients. You would negotiate a fee structure (many will be requesting lower cost therapy).
Once you have your fee structure in place, the client would pay directly to the Brook Institute and you would get % of their fee paid directly to you via the Brook Institute. Prequalified psychotherapists may consider this a paid internship position with supervision included. It has a 2 year commitment requirement.
In order to sit as a counselor with the Brook Institute and get referrals, you need either 1.a licensure in your country in order to be a paid intern. Or, alternately, 2. to be registered within your state so you can legally practice giving sessions. 3. To work as a practitioner status coach or helping professional.
In addition, you would fill out a 10-99 form with The Brook Institute for tax purposes as a private contractor.