Brain Working Recursive Therapy ©
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A Founder Member of BBRS©
British BrainWorking Research Society.
‘BWRT®’ stands for ‘BrainWorking Recursive Therapy®’, a model of psychology and psychotherapy created by UK professional therapist, Terence Watts, MCGI. Like many other modern therapies, it allows a ‘core of privacy’ so that you do not have to divulge anything you would rather not talk about – in fact, the practitioner only needs to know how you feel and how you would prefer to feel instead. BWRT® is a completely new and different therapy based on the latest discoveries about the way the brain works and how it affects our moods, behaviour and emotions. Only Certified Practitioners have been trained to deliver BWRT® and all have to adhere to a strict ethical code. Find out more at http://www.bwrt.org
Like many great ideas, it was born out of a moment of inspiration while Terence was reading about some experiments carried out in 1983 by Benjamin Libet, which appeared to show that we don't actually have free will in the way we usually think of it. Moreover, it showed that decisions were made and acted upon by our mental processes before we actually become consciously aware of them.
It was immediately evident that this process accounted for a huge number of the psychological difficulties which so many people have to put up with, fears, phobias, irrational beliefs etc. Now after tireless research and 1000's of practical experiments, it has proved to have a profound therapeutic intervention, something more powerful and effective than anything that existed to date and different from anything ever discovered or used prior to this.
Terence had for some time been working on an idea to utilise BWRT© with several complicated issues such as:
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Why we sometimes can't stop ourselves doing things.
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Why we sometimes feel that we just cannot do something we would really like to.
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Why we so often limit ourselves from getting on with life.
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Why we sometimes give up on something without even trying properly to do it.
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Why we sometimes fear something when there's no real reason to do so.
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Why some situations 'trigger' uncomfortable feelings, even though we have no idea why.
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Why therapy doesn't always work as we want it to.
The research, investigation, and analysis Terence had carried out so far had raised almost as many questions as answers; he was unwilling, though, to accept that this was just the way things are and it was reading about the 1983 experiments that the key to the entire puzzle exploded into Terence's mind.
He began working on the project immediately and it became evident almost immediately that here was something very special indeed, something that worked in a way that was different and more effective than ever before. After extensive testing, a training programme was implemented and rapidly gained the reputation among many therapists as a 'must have' process for working with all manner of issues and is now being taught, under stringent guidelines, all over the world.
Work is done in the waking state and not under hypnosis and the beauty is that it is 'Content Free', ie., you don’t need to tell me what your disturbing memory or upsetting behaviour is. You simply focus on it in your own mind, all you need to do is want to change and it can be achieved.
Finally in 2016, after much conversation with the authoritative bodies in the UK, and after offering proof of research eminence, etc., Terence gained permission to form the 'British BrainWorking Research Society' ©, under which all practitioners will practice and contribute to the continued research.