Dr. Valdeane W. Brown

Educator and public speaker. Founder of the 5-Phase Model, and co-founder of the NeurOptimal® Dynamical Neurofeedback® system that our own work runs on.

“Revealing the elegant simplicity inherent in learning and transformation.”

Founder of
The 5-Phase Model
Co-founder of
NeurOptimal® Dynamical Neurofeedback®
Doctorate
Clinical psychology
Speaking with us
From 2027

Why this page exists

The method we deliver rests on his work.

Dynamical Neurofeedback® is not something this Institute invented. It runs on NeurOptimal®, the system Dr. Brown co-founded, and the training that produced our practitioners came out of the community he has supported since it began. Naming that is more useful than quietly benefiting from it.

The work

The 5-Phase Model

His framework for personal and organizational transformation, which he teaches and consults on internationally as a trainer of trainers.

NeurOptimal®

Co-founder of the Dynamical Neurofeedback® system: a high-resolution mirror that signals the moment it detects movement in the central nervous system and leaves the correction to that system, rather than pushing the brain toward a preset target.

The Zengar® Institute, Inc.

He has inspired and supported the Zengar® community since its inception.

A wide background

A Ph.D. in clinical psychology, alongside mathematics, physics, computer programming, philosophy, yoga, meditation and martial arts. The breadth is the point: the model came out of all of it.

Writing, recordings and papers

Twelve essays are here in full, on why the brain does not run on frequencies, what interruption does that reinforcement cannot, and why a system that navigates in real time beats a staged protocol. One of them carries the Journal of Neurotherapy paper he wrote with Jay Gunkelman and Karl Pribram.

The recorded talks and podcast appearances are still to come. They will be hosted on a video or podcast platform and embedded here, rather than uploaded to this site.

Questions people ask

Who he is, what the model is, and why an independent practice devotes a page to him.

Who is Dr. Valdeane W. Brown?

An educator, public speaker and internationally recognized trainer of trainers. He is the founder of the 5-Phase Model and co-founder of the NeurOptimal® Dynamical Neurofeedback® system, and he has supported the Zengar® Institute, Inc. community since its inception.

Dr. Brown’s framework for personal and organizational transformation. He teaches and consults on it internationally, and his stated aim throughout is revealing the elegant simplicity inherent in learning and transformation.

Because the method we deliver rests on his work. NeurOptimal® is the system our Dynamical Neurofeedback® runs on, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest about where it came from.

Present this to your own community

White label decks with a presenter script, ready for your logo, sold through our storefront.

White Label Dynamical Neurofeedback® Presentation Kit

A two hour masterclass deck with a presenter script, delivered through Canva and ready for your logo.

$125.00 USD

Package of 3 Neurofeedback Videos, 33 minute

Forest, ocean and sky, all three at session length, bought together.

$49.95 USD

Live NeurOptimal® Basic Certification Course

Two days live, online or in person in Las Vegas, taught by the person who wrote the course. Enrollment closes seven days before each date.

$660.00 USD

Prices in USD, as published in the storefront. Checkout, delivery and support for anything on this shelf run through store.cognitive-connections.com.

Hear him in 2027

Dr. Brown joins the professional speaker series in 2027, alongside Alex Doman and Cathy Morris.