Polyvagal Theory in Action: Creating Safety & Connection with Trauma Clients
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- Speaker:
- Deborah Dana, LCSW
- Duration:
- 12 Hours 15 Minutes
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19 Feb, 2025
- Product Code:
- POS054770
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- Digital Seminar
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- Never expires.
Description
Have you had a client who could out-think their trauma? Likely you haven’t … because trauma isn’t healed through thought.
Clients come to us looking for ways to feel safe and regulated in their daily lives – but the trauma client is often stuck in a dysregulated state.
Like us, they want to be able to navigate the normal “shifting” we do in our daily life - transitioning from one state to another. Hyper to calm, irritated to relaxed, overwhelmed to feeling in control.
In the words of author of The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy (Norton) and international trainer Deb Dana, LCSW, they are ”longing” to come into a state of regulation”.
And it’s our job to help them. It’s what we trained for, what we dreamed of doing, and where we get the deep satisfaction from the work we do.
By participating in this two-day applied training, Deb will give you:
- A deep knowledge of Polyvagal Theory – in easy to understand language
- Practical ways to work with the autonomic nervous system that create connection and safety … through techniques she’s honed and will share with you
The Polyvagal approach is not a model of therapy or a protocol to follow. It is an understanding of three organising principles around which you can create your own approach and technique, blending them with your preferred model.
The goal is that you leave the training inspired to try something new with a client – and that you have a roadmap to do so effectively.
Each client is unique, each therapist unique, and each approach unique, but using the foundation of our autonomic nervous system and working with states of engagement and dysregulation are universal ingredients for clinical success to happen. Learning Polyvagal Theory and how to apply it in your practice may become one of the most transformational moments in your career.
Increasingly, Polyvagal Theory is being discussed at conferences here and abroad, written about in articles, and taught in arenas of higher learning. Register for this training and revolutionise your practice. It is time to stop being mystified by the name “Polyvagal Theory” and realise the immediate benefits of knowing and incorporating its principles in your clinical work.
CPD
Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships
All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners. For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.
This online program is worth 12.25 hours CPD.
Handouts
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - 2-Day Workshop: Polyvagal Theory in Action (27 MB) | 96 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Extra Handout PVEI Disaster (261.5 KB) | 22 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Extra Handout PVEI Disaster - French (261.5 KB) | 22 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - 2-Day Workshop: Polyvagal Theory in Action - French (27 MB) | 96 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Extra Handout PVEI Disaster - Italian (261.5 KB) | 22 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - 2-Day Workshop: Polyvagal Theory in Action - Italian (27 MB) | 96 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Extra Handout PVEI Disaster - German (261.5 KB) | 22 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Extra Handout PVEI Disaster - German (261.5 KB) | 22 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - 2-Day Workshop: Polyvagal Theory in Action - German (27 MB) | 96 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - 2-Day Workshop: Polyvagal Theory in Action - German (27 MB) | 96 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Extra Handout PVEI Disaster - Spanish (261.5 KB) | 22 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Extra Handout PVEI Disaster - Spanish (261.5 KB) | 22 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - 2-Day Workshop: Polyvagal Theory in Action - Spanish (27 MB) | 96 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - 2-Day Workshop: Polyvagal Theory in Action - Spanish (27 MB) | 96 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Speaker
Deborah Dana, LCSW Related seminars and products
Deb Dana, LCSW, is a clinician and consultant specializing in using the lens of Polyvagal Theory to understand and resolve the impact of trauma and create ways of working that honor the role of the autonomic nervous system. She developed the Rhythm of Regulation Clinical Training Series and lectures internationally on ways Polyvagal Theory informs clinical work. She is a founding member of the Polyvagal Institute, clinical advisor at Khiron Clinics, and an advisor to Unyte.
Deb is the author of The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation (Norton, 2018), Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection: 50 Client Centered Practices (Norton, 2020), Befriending Your Nervous System (Sounds True, 2020), Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory (forthcoming from Sounds True), co-editor of Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory: The Emergence of Polyvagal-Informed Therapies (Norton, 2018), and creator of the Polyvagal Flip Chart (Norton, 2020).
To learn more, visit rhythmofregulation.com or polyvagalinstitute.org.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Deborah Dana maintains a private practice, is an advisor with Unyte/iLS and is a consultant with the Veterans Association and Khiron Clinics. She receives a consulting fee and speaker honorarium from Sounds True. Deborah Dana receives a speaking honorarium from Life Architect and Embody Lab and receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. All relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations have been mitigated.
Non-financial: Deborah Dana has no relevant non-financial relationships.
Additional Info
Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)Access never expires for this product.
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Objectives
- Determine the principles of Polyvagal Theory and how to communicate them in client friendly language.
- Distinguish three circuits of the autonomic nervous system for use in client psychoeducation.
- Analyse how the autonomic nervous system operates as an internal surveillance system and its impact on clients’ habitual responses to trauma.
- Determine how to help clients engage the regulating capacities of the autonomic nervous system that create an environment of safety.
- Determine how tfeso exercise the Social Engagement System to assist clients in becoming more adept in skills of co-regulation and creating reciprocal relationships.
- Assess for patterns in clients’ autonomic states to better inform treatment planning.
- Support the trauma-informed therapist’s role as co-regulator and its impact on clinical outcomes.
- Distinguish portals of intervention in the autonomic nervous system to more effectively establish safety and treat trauma.
- Employ the right degree of neural challenge and exercises to employ with clients to help shape the autonomic nervous system toward safety and connection.
- Evaluate how to work with the cycle or reciprocity-rupture-repair in helping clients achieve the biological need for connection.
- Design a Polyvagal-guided clinical practice based on appropriate assessment and treatment planning.
- Categorise ethical issues, research limitations, and potential risks to be considered by a Polyvagal-guided therapist.
Outline
Essentials of Polyvagal Theory- The evolution of the autonomic nervous system
- How trauma shapes ways the body responds
- Three organising principles of Polyvagal Theory:
- Neuroception: Detection without perception
- Hierarchy: 3 predictable pathways of response
- Coregulation: The biological imperative
- How the internal surveillance system works
- Identifying cues of safety and danger
- Connecting to our innate automatic wisdom
- Understanding patterns of protection and connection
- Moving from neuroception to awareness
- Using the Safety/Danger Equation to resource patterns of
- Exploring three autonomic circuits
- Sympathetic mobilisation
- Ventral vagal connection
- Dorsal vagal collapse
- How trauma shapes biology
- Moving between states
- Introduction to autonomic mapping
- Creating skill with the Notice and Name practice
- The five elements of the Social Engagement System
- What happens when parts of the system are unavailable?
- Using the Social Engagement System to regulate states
- How to "exercise" the Social Engagement system
- Seeing patterns over time
- Use micro-moments to resource change
- Explore the blended states of play and stillness
- Create autonomic anchors
- Using continuums to track changes within a state
- Creating safety in co-regulation
- Ways to use your autonomic state as a co-regulating resource
- Noticing moments of misattunement and making a repair
- Identify portals of intervention
- Using breath as a regulator
- Resourcing new patterns through movement
- Exploring the autonomic response to touch
- Using autonomic imagery
- Exploring the stretch to stress continuum
- Building safety with breath, movement, and imagery
- Writing new autonomic stories
- Getting comfortable teaching Polyvagal Theory to clients
- Tracking the flow of a Polyvagal-guided clinical session
- Polyvagal-guided assessment and treatment planning
- Polyvagal Theory and Phase I trauma treatment
- The guiding questions
- Ethical considerations
- Research limitations and potential risk
Target Audience
- Counsellors
- Social Workers
- Case Managers
- Addiction Counsellors
- Art Therapists
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Physicians
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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