What Is the Octopus Setup Spot™?
The Octopus Setup Spot™ is a somatic and symbolic Brainspotting-aligned protocol designed to support emotional overload, diffuse trauma, and complex grief. It uses structured symbolic anchoring and multidirectional resourcing to help individuals process pain while feeling supported in multiple places.
Why an Octopus?
The octopus is used as a structural metaphor, not decoration.
In nature, the octopus demonstrates distributed intelligence. Its nervous system is not centralized in one place; it extends throughout its arms, allowing multiple points of sensing and response simultaneously.
This mirrors the way emotional distress is often experienced — not in a single thought or sensation, but across multiple areas of the body and psyche.
The eight arms represent distributed support. Rather than stabilizing one point while others remain activated, the Octopus Setup Spot™ allows multidirectional regulation.
Trademark Notice
Octopus Setup Spot™ is a pending trademark of Michelle Dyett-Welcome. Use in sessions is welcome with attribution. Please do not reproduce, teach, or modify the method for distribution without written permission.
The Octopus Setup Spot™
A Therapeutic-Inspired Consulting & Training Experience
The Octopus Setup Spot™ is a signature resourcing and integration tool rooted in somatic healing, symbolism, and gaze-based processing.
It offers a unique method for emotional regulation, grief navigation, and transformational coaching.
Through this method, we offer:
- 1:1 Consulting Sessions — Explore stuck emotional patterns, internal parts, and nervous system responses using the Octopus Setup Spot™
- Trainings & Workshops — Learn how to apply the Octopus Setup Spot™ as a somatic resourcing technique in coaching, education, or integrative care settings
This approach draws on Internal Family Systems (IFS), Brainspotting principles, and the regenerative symbolism of the octopus to support whole-person healing.
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