Hands-on workshops
ACAN offers immersive, hands-on workshops designed to bridge the gap between neurofeedback theory and clinical application.
Biofeedback Workshop
Dr. Meike Wiedemann & Veronika Kreitmayr
This workshop introduces the principles of biofeedback and its role as a practical complement to neurofeedback in everyday clinical practice. Core biofeedback parameters will be explained, accompanied by brief live demonstrations to illustrate their application.
Participants will gain a structured overview of how biofeedback can be integrated meaningfully into neurofeedback-based treatment approaches.
Practical Applications of Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Therapists
Dr. Jane Xiao & Yao Xue
This workshop is an interactive, discussion-based session that provides a clear, practice-oriented framework for understanding and using vagus-focused, wearable neuromodulation. Grounded in established vagal physiology and insights from recent research, it will explore how auricular stimulation may influence regulation-related states such as sleep readiness, stress reactivity, and recovery.
The workshop focuses on how to think about use cases and individual variability without relying on rigid protocols: defining goals for a session or routine, approaching personalization in a responsible way, and recognizing common response patterns and boundaries of comfort and safety.
Jane and Yao will also discuss how this approach conceptually relates to neurofeedback - especially ILF Neurofeedback - highlighting similarities (self-regulation, stabilization of arousal) and differences (peripheral input vs. learning-based central training), and outline practical integration ideas that practitioners may choose to explore within their own scope of practice. The session is intentionally flexible, leaving room to adapt the discussion and examples to the audience’s interests.
BEE Lab - The Swiss Army knife of Neurofeedback software
Dr. Horst Schneider
This workshop introduces the powerful neurofeedback and biofeedback software BEE Lab, with its three main modules to perform (1) all kinds of neurofeedback training in the "classical" (Hz) frequency bands, as well as in the (high) ILF range, (2) tomographic neurofeedback training with 19- or 31-channel EEG recordings and (3) hemencephalographic (HEG) biofeedback training.
Participants will gain a comprehensive overview with brief live demonstrations of the functional capabilities offered by the software and learn whether and how seamless integration of the existing components of their Cygnet system can be achieved.
Functional Brain Mapping in Neurotherapy –
QEEG, normative Database & Functional Brain Analyser
Dr. Horst Schneider & Milica Pavić
This workshop serves as an introduction to the use of 19-channel full-band EEGs for assessing brain function in clinical settings and therapeutic practices. Participants will acquire practical knowledge of how to measure a 19-channel EEG and how to further analyse such a recording with regard to functional brain analysis. The EEG analysis comprise of de-artifacting and the calculation of brain maps that show the quantitative distribution of EEG spectra across the brain surface.
Other key topics of this workshop include comparing the previously measured live EEGs with a normative database and a demonstration of the semi-automatic, AI-supported functional brain analyser, which saves a considerable amount of time in EEG analysis, database comparison and report generation.
