Module 1: Understanding Polyvagal Theory: Emotion, Attachment, and Self-Regulation
OBJECTIVES
Integrate effective non-verbal behavior into your sessions with clients.
OUTLINE
Neurophysiology of Behavioral State Regulation
Autonomic Nervous System
Social Engagement System
Perception
The Polyvagal Theory for Trauma Treatment
Copyright :01/10/2013
Module 2: Bringing a Polyvagal Perspective into Therapy: How to Safely Navigate Emotional Storms
Program Information
Objectives
Discover how to use your own autonomic nervous system to create an environment of safety for your clients
Discover how to develop the expressive range of your eyes, voice, breath, and body to enrich your nonverbal attunement skills
Discover how to help your clients listen to their internal state and let go of their problem story
Discover how to reliably guide your clients from state to state and enhance their capacity for self-regulations
Copyright :24/03/2018
Module 3: Harnessing the Polyvagal System to Help Clients with Anxiety, Depression, and Anger
Program Information
Objectives
Explore how to connect with defensive clients, eliciting novel responses that grab their attention, interrupt automatic defensiveness, and generate curiosity
Explore how to practice exercises for helping guarded or angry clients feel more open
Explore how to develop skills to create small but transformative moments in therapy
Explore how to master specific behaviors that elicit trust, like a sing-songy, rhythmic voice; open, curious eyes; reassuring touch; and sounds of empathy
Explore how to use games to help anxious clients more relaxed and depressed clients more energized
Copyright :22/03/2018
Module 4: Brain Switch - Apply Polyvagal and Memory Reconsolidation Theories with Parts Work, Somatic, and Mindful Approaches
Program Information
Objectives
Explore the therapeutic impact of activating brain centers that neutralize stressful neurochemicals
Explore how to regulate sensations from disturbing emotions by balancing them with uplifting neurochemicals
Explore the power of visual images to externalize distress, enhance attunement, and create pathways to implicit memories and inner assets
Explore ways to integrate a variety of therapeutic approaches into a three-step, brain-based protocol that can be used with diverse populations and ages
Copyright :23/03/2018
BONUS: Opening the Heart: How to Deepen the Experience of Therapy
Program Information
Objectives
Articulate psychotherapy techniques to help clients access emotion to inform the clinician’s choice of treatment interventions.
Determine the impact of early attachment and its clinical implications for purposes of client psychoeducation and symptom management.
Evaluate the relationship between memory and trauma and communicate how this information can be utilized therapeutically to help clients cope with traumatic memories.
Investigate how mindfulness and meditation impact the nervous system and articulate how mindfulness interventions can be used to improve clinical outcomes.
Incorporate specific memory reconsolidation techniques to help clients change how they perceive and respond to memories of past traumatic events.
Apply simple yet effective clinical interventions drawn from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy to alleviate symptoms in clients.