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Exploring the Essential Features of “Deborah Dana – Putting Polyvagal Theory into Practice”
Speaker: Deborah Dana, LCSW, LICSW
Format: Audio and Video
Media Type: Digital Seminar
Description
At the heart of our client’s symptoms – from anxiety and depression to traumatic stress and more – is a dysregulated nervous system.
Polyvagal theory finally presents a clear roadmap of our nervous system that can guide both therapists and clients to the source of their most troubling symptoms.
And Polyvagal-informed treatments provide interventions that not only empower clients to understand how their nervous system shapes their experiences, but also gives them powerful methods to re-shape those experiences in therapy.
Watch Deb Dana, the world’s foremost translator of Polyvagal theory into clinical practice, in this all-new training based on her best-selling book Polyvagal Exercises for Safety & Connection as she shows you, step-by-step to:
- Track a client’s experience through their autonomic nervous system and uncover the specific places that keep them stuck
- Interrupt and re-shape habitual autonomic patterns that cause their emotional suffering, maladaptive thoughts, and un-helpful or impulsive behaviors
- Learn how to introduce Polyvagal practices in session
- See and experience real demonstrations
With Deb Dana’s practical guidance, it’s now possible to get beneath symptoms and show clients how to safely listen to the “story” of their autonomic nervous system and to re-shape their experience toward safety and connection.
Understanding the human nervous system through a Polyvagal lens has been a game-changer for therapists across modalities. There is no better way to learn it than through experiencing it yourself in this highly practical, intervention-rich training.
Speaker
Deb Dana, LCSW, LICSW, 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).
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Deborah Dana maintains a private practice and is a consultant at Khiron House Clinics and the Veterans Administration. She receives royalties as a published author and receives a speaking honorarium from the Cape Cod Institute, The Knowledge Tree, the PCPSI, and the Polyvagal Institute. Deborah Dana receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Deborah Dana is a board member of the Polyvagal Institute. She is a volunteer consultant for Unyte/iLS.
Objectives
- Propose language to successfully introduce nervous system-based interventions with clients.
- Evaluate the five phases of the BASIC approach to polyvagal-informed treatments.
- Apply one exercise from each phase of the BASIC approach.
- Assess timing of moving between phases with clients.
- Construct practices between sessions to successfully shape new autonomic patterns.
- Utilize personal progress trackers to assess client progress.
Outline
- How Polyvagal Theory Provides a Foundation for Lasting Therapeutic Change
The BASIC approach to Polyvagalinformed treatment
Trauma healing from a Polyvagal theory perspective
Learning to stretch, but not stress, a client’s nervous system
Co-regulation: An imperative in psychotherapy - Introducing Nervous System-Based Interventions to Clients
The three-part hierarchy of the autonomic response
Neuroception: our internal surveillance system
How early experiences and trauma shape our nervous system - Befriending Practices: Building Awareness & A Map of the Nervous System
Exploring Hierarchies
Identifying landmark moments in our nervous system
Recognizing ventral vagal “anchors”
Utilizing the social engagement scale
Creating a neuroception notebook - Attending Practices: Creating Stability in the Nervous System
Building attention through naming autonomic states
Daily tracking practices
Attending over time
Savoring practices - Shaping Practices: Creating New Patterns & Pathways in the Nervous System
Moving out of dorsal vagal collapse and sympathetic activation
Neural exercises for creating resilience and psychological flexibility
The power of utilizing autonomic imagery - Integration Practices: Writing a New Story in the Nervous System
Establishing new autonomic patterns and behaviors in life
Moving from intention to action
Learning to engage the vagal brake - Connection Practices: Finding Safety in Connection Through the Nervous System
Exercising and strengthening the social engagement system
Learning to feel safety in connection
The reciprocity equation
Creating a personal connection plan - Using Personal Progress Trackers That Can Improve Outcomes
Tracking the flow of a Polyvagalguided session
Polyvagal-guided assessment and treatment planning
Target Audience
- Outline
- Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Case Managers
- Addiction Counselors
- Physicians
- Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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