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If our clients had thought their way out of trauma, they would have done that a long time ago.

Trauma resolution is not about thinking. Our clients experiences of safety and their capacity for connection are influenced by the work done at the level of the autonomic nervous system. This system is impacted by traumatic events. Our clients often go on a painful journey into a state of shutdown, collapse, and dissociation because of autonomic pathways. How can we help our clients find their way back to safety, and how can we prevent it from happening in the first place?

Polyvagal Theory is a revolutionary way to lead clients out of their adaptive survival responses into a state of safety that is necessary for successful trauma treatment. Deb Dana is the author of The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy.

You will be confident in your ability to help clients safely tune into and rewrite trauma stories that are carried in their autonomic pathways if you become proficient in the language of Polyvagal Theory. Come learn the organizing principles of Polyvagal Theory and work with practices designed to help clients move out of despair and isolation and return to a place of awareness, connection, and social engagement.

1. Describe the principles of Polyvagal Theory and how to communicate them in client friendly language.
2. Explore three circuits of the autonomic nervous system for the purpose of client psychoeducation.
3. Analyze how the autonomic nervous system operates as an internal surveillance system and its impact on clients’ habitual responses to trauma.
4. Determine how to help clients engage the regulating capacities of the autonomic nervous system in order to create an environment of safety.
5. Explain how to exercise the Social Engagement System to assist clients in becoming more adept in skills of co-regulation and creating reciprocal relationships.
6. Assess for patterns in clients’ autonomic states to better inform treatment planning.
7. Summarize the trauma-informed therapist’s role as co-regulator and its impact on clinical outcomes.
8. Identify portals of intervention in the autonomic nervous system to more effectively establish safety and treat trauma.
9. Discover the right degree of neural challenge and exercises to employ with clients to help shape the autonomic nervous system toward safety and connection.
10. Examine how to work with the cycle or reciprocity-rupture-repair in helping clients achieve the biological need for connection.
11. Design a Polyvagal-informed clinical practice based on appropriate assessment and treatment planning.
12. Examine ethical issues, research limitations, and potential risks to be considered by a Polyvagal-informed therapist

There are essential elements of POLYVAGAL THEORY.

• Evolution of the autonomic nervous system
• How trauma influences autonomic profiles
• Three organizing principles
  • Neuroception: Detection without perception
  • Hierarchy: 3 predictable pathways of response
  • Coregulation: The biological imperative

There are intrusions and the constriction of arteries.

• Understand the internal surveillance system
• Track cues of safety and danger
• Everyday “biological rudeness”
• Trauma, autonomic wisdom, and cognitive override

The autoNOMIC HIERARCHY was brought to the attention of the NAVIGATE.

• Exploring three autonomic circuits
  • Sympathetic branch
  • Ventral vagal pathway
  • Dorsal vagal pathway
• How trauma shapes cycles of autonomic response
• Engage the regulating capacities of the autonomic nervous system
• Introduction to autonomic mapping

The social care system.

• 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
• Exercising the Social Engagement System

Tracking autoNOMIC states.

• Seeing patterns over time
• Use micro-moments to resource change
• Explore the blended states of play and stillness
• Create autonomic anchors

Meeting the biological need for connection.

• Mapping the continuum of solitude to sociality
• Create safety in co-regulation
• Working with the cycle of reciprocity – rupture – repair

ToWARD SAFETY, SHAPING THE AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM.

• Identify portals of intervention
• Create neural exercises
• Use breath as a regulator
• Resourcing new patterns through movement
• Explore the autonomic response to touch
• Use autonomic imagery

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• Getting comfortable teaching Polyvagal Theory to clients
• Tracking the 8 steps of a Polyvagal-Informed clinical session
• Polyvagal-Informed assessment and treatment planning
• Polyvagal Theory and Phase I trauma treatment

TheRAPIST’S REPONSIBILITIES ARE POLYVAGALINFORMED.

• The guiding questions
• Ethical considerations
• Research limitations and potential risks