Deborah Dana – 2-Day Workshop: Polyvagal Theory Informed Trauma Assessment and Interventions: An Autonomic Roadmap to Safety, Connection and Healing

Deborah Dana – 2-Day Workshop: Polyvagal Theory Informed Trauma Assessment and Interventions: An Autonomic Roadmap to Safety, Connection and Healing

Check it out: Deborah Dana – 2-Day Workshop: Polyvagal Theory Informed Trauma Assessment and Interventions: An Autonomic Roadmap to Safety, Connection and Healing

Faculty:

Deborah Dana

Duration:

2 Full Days

Format:

Audio and Video

Copyright:

May 21, 2019

Description

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

Trauma resolution is not about thinking. Healing depends, instead, on the work undertaken at the level of the autonomic nervous system, which shapes our clients’ experiences of safety and influences their capacity for connection. Traumatic events have a far-reaching impact on this system. Autonomic pathways trigger survival responses that often lead our clients on a painful journey into a state of shutdown, collapse, and dissociation. How can we help our clients find their way back to safety, and how do we prevent it from happening in the first place?

Polyvagal Theory, developed by Stephen Porges, offers a revolutionary roadmap to lead clients out of their adaptive survival responses into the autonomically regulated state of safety that is necessary for successful trauma treatment. Dr. Porges’ colleague and author of The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy, Deb Dana, shares this roadmap with you in this exciting recording.

You will become fluent in the language of Polyvagal Theory and confident in your ability to help clients safely tune into and reshape their nervous systems, and rewrite the trauma stories that are carried in their autonomic pathways. 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.

Handouts

Manual – Polyvagal Theory Informed Trauma Assessment and Interventions (16 MB) 88 Pages Available after Purchase

Outline

ESSENTIALS 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

NEUROCEPTION AND THE SHAPING OF AUTONOMIC PATHWAYS

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

NAVIGATE THE AUTONOMIC HIERARCHY

• 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 ENGAGEMENT 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

SHAPING THE AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM TOWARD SAFETY

• 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

INCORPORATING POLYVAGAL THEORY IN CLINICAL PRACTICE

• 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

RESPONSIBILITIES OF A POLYVAGALINFORMED THERAPIST

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

Faculty

Deborah Dana, LCSW Related seminars and products: 10

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Deb Dana, LCSW is a clinician and consultant specializing in working with complex trauma. She is a consultant to the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium in the Kinsey Institute and clinical advisor to Khiron Clinics. She developed the Rhythm of Regulation Clinical Training Series and lectures internationally on ways Polyvagal Theory informs work with trauma survivors. Deb is the author of The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation, Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection: 50 Client-Centered Practices, co-editor with Stephen Porges of Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory: The Emergence of Polyvagal-Informed Therapies, and creator of the Polyvagal Flip Chart. rhythmofregulation.com

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Deborah Dana maintains a private practice. She is an author for W.W. Norton and receives royalties. She receives a consulting fee from Indiana University; and the Veterans Administration. Ms. Dana receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.

Non-financial: Deborah Dana has no relevant non-financial relationship.