"Deb Dana guides us, by means of simple exercises, to understand and befriend our autonomic nervous system, engaging its healing capacities to connect with ourselves and with our social world." --Gabor Maté, MD, author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
Course Timing
As a self-paced course, you can begin at any time and view on your own schedule.
Course Description
Over the last few years, groundbreaking neuroscience research has changed our understanding of how trauma, adverse childhood experiences, and chronic stress impact individuals psychologically, physiologically, emotionally, and socially.
Using Polyvagal Theory, we can develop a framework to explore how our experiences shape our nervous systems, and identify the pathways that lead to healing.
This self-paced workshop presents the organizing principles of Polyvagal Theory in combination with practices that bring the theory into practical application through recorded teaching modules with master clinician Deb Dana.
Payment Information
Access to this course is $149.
Students can pay the fee in full at registration or in three-month installments. Students will have access to the course for 365 days from the date of registration.
If you represent an organization interested in scheduling a private offering of this course, please contact us at info@polyvagal.org
Course Requirements
There are no pre-requisites for this course.
Course Format
Course Framework
This course will cover the following areas:
The three organizing principles of Polyvagal Theory: neuroception, hierarchy, coregulation
The vagal brake
The social engagement system
Basic befriending skills: personal profile map, story of states, ventral vagal anchors
Recommended Audience
Course Outcomes
At the end of this workshop participants will be able to:
1. Describe the autonomic hierarchy
2. Discuss the process of neuroception
3. Explain the function of the vagal brake
4. Describe the co-regulating pathways of the social engagement system
5. Identify common body responses, behaviors, emotions, and beliefs for each autonomic state
6. Review what it means to apply a polyvagal lens in daily living
You will receive a Certificate of Completion upon finishing this course.
As a professional you may also have the option to earn 4 CEs:
There are two ways to purchase your CE’s
R. Cassidy: 4 CEs for psychoanalysts, social workers, counselors, marriage and family therapists, educators, nurses, and dentists are available for purchase for $40 from co-sponsor R. Cassidy Seminars.
Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA): 4 CEs for psychologists, LPCs, LCSWs, LMFTs, and nurses are available for purchase for $35. CEs are provided by co-sponsor Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA).
INSTRUCTOR(S)
Deb Dana, LCSW
Deb Dana, LCSW, is a clinician, consultant, author and speaker. Her work is focused on using the lens of Polyvagal Theory to understand and resolve the impact of trauma in our lives. She is a founding member of the Polyvagal Institute, consultant to Khiron Clinics, and advisor to Unyte.
Deb’s work shows how an understanding of Polyvagal Theory is applicable across the board to relationships, mental health, and trauma. She delves into the intricacies of how we can all use an understanding of the organizing principles of Polyvagal Theory to change the ways we navigate our daily lives. Deb is well known for translating Polyvagal Theory into a language and application that is both clear and accessible and for pioneering Rhythm of Regulation® methodology, tools, techniques and practices which continue to open up the power of Polyvagal Theory for professionals and curious people from diverse backgrounds and all walks of life.
Deb believes that we all benefit when we have a basic understanding of the ways the nervous system works and learn how to become active operators of this essential system. Following this passion has led her to offering workshops in partnership with groups and communities outside of the clinical arena - and bringing the Polyvagal perspective to the ordinary, and sometimes extraordinary, experiences of daily living.
Deb’s clinical work published with W.W. Norton includes The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation, Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection: 50 Client Centered Practices, the Polyvagal Flip Chart, the Polyvagal Card Deck, and Polyvagal Practices: Anchoring the Self in Safety. She partners with Sounds True to bring her polyvagal perspective to a general audience through the audio program Befriending Your Nervous System: Looking Through the Lens of Polyvagal Theory and her print book Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory.
Deb Dana, LCSW
