Understanding the Body’s Safety System

Understanding The Body’s Safety Circuit

A Polyvagal Guided Approach to Connection

Three-part course
with Deb Dana

How to create a clinical practice environment conducive to an autonomically regulated state of safety which is necessary for successful treatment.

In this three one-hour course you will:

explore the embodied, environmental, and relational pathways of neuroception
identify cues of safety and danger
create the conditions that support practitioner-client connection
explore the ventral vagal state as the necessary element for connection and co-regulation
shape the nervous system toward regulation
anchor in ventral vagus and use the social engagement system pathways to invite clients into connection
learn and experience practices for your therapeutic work which support listening to the nervous system

COURSE CONTENT

PART I

The Safety/Danger Equation

In this first session, we explore the embodied, environmental, and relational pathways of neuroception. Using the safety/danger equation we identify cues of safety and danger and discuss ways to re-balance the equation to create the conditions that support practitioner-client connection.

PART II

The Essential Ingredients

This second course unit explores the ventral vagal state as the necessary element for connection and co-regulation. We discuss how to find the right degree of challenge to shape the nervous system toward regulation and connection, practice ways to anchor in ventral vagus and use the pathways of the social engagement system to invite clients into connection.

PART III

The Guiding Questions

In the final course session we use two questions that guide practice — What does my nervous system need in this moment to be anchored in regulation? What does my client’s nervous system need in this moment? — to look at the ebb and flow of connection in a session. We engage in practices that support listening to the nervous system and using what we learn to inform therapeutic choices.

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Deb Dana is a clinician and consultant specializing in working with complex trauma. She developed the Rhythm of Regulation Clinical Training Series and lectures internationally on ways Polyvagal Theory informs work with trauma survivors.

Join Deb as she introduces us to Polyvagal Theory as a guide to the autonomic circuits that underlie behaviours and beliefs and an understanding of the body to brain pathways that support co-regulation.

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