Registration is now open for the May 6 - October 14, 2023 cohort of Jan Winhall's certificate level course. HARNESSING EMBODIED WISDOM There's no denying that there's a powerful movement in the trauma field towards helping clients to connect with embodied wisdom. Many trainings emphasize the importance of this connection but do not actually provide the specifics on how to help your clients feel into their bodies. In order to assist our clients, we need to engage in our own felt sense experiencing. My training offers you a safe and powerful way to explore your own felt sense experience and to bring this process to your clients. Whether you are a therapist, coach, or bodyworker, my Felt Sense Polyvagal Model™ is a generic framework that can support any modality. It will help you to help your clients harness the wisdom of their body as a powerful healing tool. WHAT IS THE FELT SENSE POLYVAGAL MODEL™? The Felt Sense Polyvagal Model™ helps people transition from being stressed, overwhelmed, or addicted…to becoming more regulated, grounded, and calm in their bodies. The model integrates Porges’ Polyvagal theory, and Gendlin’s Felt Sense Focusing Oriented Psychotherapy process, enabling us to appreciate trauma/addictive behaviors as adaptive responses to maladaptive environments. It shifts the current pathologizing paradigm to a strength based approach and provides a generic framework that can support any therapeutic modality. Therapists, coaches, bodyworkers are all welcomed here. THE RISE OF ADDICTIONS AND OTHER TRAUMA RESPONSES: A NEW APPROACH NEEDED Addictions and other trauma responses are increasing day by day. We desperately need a fresh approach that treats the trauma of addiction where it lives: in the body. The fields of trauma and addiction have developed separately, and yet when we treat one, we are very often working with the other. The state of addiction is traumatic in and of itself and so, it’s important to work with both! In this course, we will explore the intersection of trauma and addiction and how to address both with an embodied approach. PARTNERSHIPS AND A GROWING COMMUNITY OF LIKE-MINDED THERAPISTS Participants of this course will gain focusing partnerships and become part of a growing supportive community of like-minded therapists who understand the importance of a polyvagal lens in working with clients. This new certificate course will include six 120-minute live zoom classes, once a month. The first 75 minutes of each class will be spent with elaboration of the pre recorded material that students receive each month. This will include examining research in the area of polyvagal theory, experiential therapy, and trauma-informed practice. In the final 45 minutes of the class you will break into small supportive groups where assistants help you to learn the embodied practices of mindfulness and focusing, so that you will be able to facilitate these processes with your clients in a therapeutic context. Participants of this course will be assigned into focusing partnerships, a neural exercise in co-regulation which can be used as a therapeutic tool as well as a contemplative practice.  You will meet with your focusing partner for about one hour on each of the weeks when there is not a live class to practice on your own time. At least 15 partner sessions must be logged for the Focusing Proficiency Certificate, which is about 3 sessions per month. In order to create a safe-enough container, participants are expected to engage in a private, quiet setting, with their cameras “on”, as we will be working experientially. Over the six months' duration of this course we will have time to really integrate all the material, get to know each other and form relationships that can endure over a lifetime. APPLYING THE FELT SENSE POLYVAGAL MODEL™ Participants will be guided in the use of tools for applying the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model™ to treat trauma and addiction. The Felt Sense Polyvagal Dialogue is a tool that integrates Imago therapy with the model. This provides a methodology for working with couples and families that engages them in an embodied approach. The course also includes a description of the theoretical framework, and an introduction to The Embodied Assessment and Treatment Tool™ (EATT) with in-depth training on how to use it. This tool reflects the experiential nature of a body based psychotherapy. Instruction will be given on how to apply the model through live demonstrations, experiential exercises in how to teach mindfulness and focusing, and presentations of case examples. Upon passing a final course quiz, participants will receive: --24 Approved CE’s -- a Polyvagal-Informed Certificate --Focusing Proficiency from the International Focusing Institute Focusing Partnerships In addition to class time you will be meeting with your Focusing Partner once a week, excluding the week that we meet for the zoom class, so three times a month. In order to receive the Focusing Proficiency Certificate you must provide documentation of 15 Partner sessions over the six months. You will need at least 50 minutes - totaling 12.5 hours during the course. Each person gets 20 minutes of Focusing and your partner reflects back your felt sense. This practice is a lifelong gift. I strongly encourage you to fully embrace it. Attendance: If you MUST miss one class, the first 75 minute recording will be available for you to watch. We will provide one make up class for the 45 minute break out room at the end of the program. In order to fulfill the requirements for the 2 certificates and the approved CE's you will need to attend all classes, or watch a maximum of 1 recording of the live class. REQUIRED READING (to be completed prior to or during the course) • Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model, by Jan Winhall, Routledge, 2021. Purchase now 20% off purchase using this code: FLR40 • International Body Psychotherapy Journal Vol. 21, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2022: Revolutionizing Addiction Treatment with The Felt Sense Polyvagal Model™ by Jan Winhall and Stephen W. Porges. ADDITIONAL INFO Jan's website: www.janwinhall.com Jan's email: jan@janwinhall.com Students will have access to the course for 300 days from the registration date. Enrollment closes on May 6, 2023, the day of the first live session.