The ability to flexibly navigate the challenges of everyday life is a marker of well-being and is dependent on the autonomic nervous system. Clients come to treatment with a compromised ability to regulate their autonomic responses. The response patterns that were once adaptive and necessary for survival now bring suffering. When we look to the autonomic nervous system we find a path to creating new, resourcing patterns of connection.

A Polyvagal informed approach to therapy offers a roadmap to bring the essential element of autonomic regulation into your clinical interventions and safely work with dysregulated states.   Using the principles of Polyvagal Theory you can help your clients tune in to their states and rewrite the stories carried in their autonomic pathways.

At the end of this workshop participants will be able to:

• describe how the organizing principles of Polyvagal Theory influence clinical practice
• identify ways to help clients safely engage with their autonomic survival stories
• use practices to help clients move out of habitual patterns of protection

AGENDA

• 8:30 am – 9:45 am – The Organizing Principles of Polyvagal Theory: Deepening Your Practice
• 9:45 am – 10:00 am – Q&A
• 10:00 am – 10:15 am – Break
• 10:15 am – 11:15 am – Demo and Discussion
• 11:15 am – 11:30 am – Integration and Q&A

* All times are in Central Time.