Imagine if you had simple, effective tools to help your clients soothe themselves in the face of trauma, panic, and overwhelm…
So they could finally change their thoughts and behaviours... even if they’ve been stuck for years.
That’s exactly what you’ll learn in this experiential retreat.
Join world-renowned psychologist and experiential trainer, Ari Badaines, PhD, at the stunning Quarantine Station Hotel, at North Head, Sydney, for an immersive deep dive into the clinical applications of Polyvagal Theory.
In 3 days of hands-on training, you’ll discover practical, use-right-away skills to move your clients from distress and loneliness to calm and connection, including:
- Polyvagal practices to cultivate your clients’ sense of safety and connection
- Key techniques to help your clients recognize their autonomic states and calm themselves so their intense emotions don’t take over
- How to tune into your own autonomic patterns so that you can be a powerful co-regulating support for your clients
- How use Polyvagal Theory to help your clients resolve old patterns that keep them stuck
No matter your clinical background, you’ll finish the retreat prepared to work directly with your clients’ autonomic nervous systems and create safe, empowering experiences that accelerate healing and growth.
This experiential retreat is only available to 55 clinicians. Our retreats fill up quickly, so register now to secure your spot.
3-Day Immersive Retreat
18-21 November 2024 | Quarantine Station, Manly | Maximum of 55 people
This week only! Save up to $400 with Early Registration!
Includes 28.5 CPD Hours
Experience the Natural Beauty of Quarantine Station
Past attendees say they felt transformed on both a personal and professional level – confidently equipped with powerful new tools and practices from Polyvagal theory and refreshed and revitalized by their surroundings.
You’ll enjoy three days immersed in a secluded refuge at this boutique hotel. Your daily retreat schedule is designed to allow ample personal time to enjoy the beautiful surroundings and amenities, including direct access to Sydney Harbor National Park and professionally guided tours of this fascinating historic site.
Whether you’re relaxing among native wildflowers or exploring Manly’s hidden coves and beaches by kayak, you’re sure to enjoy every aspect of your stay here.
You’ll have plenty of time to hone your clinical skills, and you’ll also have time to unwind, rejuvenate, and connect with yourself and your community of colleagues… all at this remarkable place.
- 3 days of live in person training
- Luxurious accommodation on-site at the historic Quarantine Station boutique hotel
- All meals included
- Free parking
This all-inclusive package is perfect for you if...
You are traveling to the retreat from out-of-town or want an immersive learning experience
and a chance to relax and rejuvenate in a unique and beautiful setting.
Regular price: $2,899 – Early Registration is $2,499
- 3 days of live in person training
- Enjoy the historic setting of Quarantine Station, with panoramic views of Sydney Harbour and Manly Cove
- Lunch, Dinner, and unlimited coffee and tea included
- Free parking
This training option is perfect for you if...
You live in or near Sydney. You’re excited to advance your practice with this immersive
in-person training and at the end of the day you can still return to the comfort of your own
home.
Regular price: $1,199– Early Registration is $999
CANCELATION POLICY: 50% refund will be allowed up till 30 days from the training day.
3-Day Immersive Retreat
18-21 November 2024 | Quarantine Station, Manly | Maximum of 55 people
This week only! Save up to $400 with Early Registration!
Includes 28.5 CPD Hours
You’ll leave with:
- Step-by-step applications and interventions from Polyvagal Theory to soothe the nervous system and break old behaviour patterns
- Clinical insights to effortlessly integrate Polyvagal skills into your existing therapy approach, no matter what modalities you currently use
- Practical Polyvagal resources and tools that you can confidently use in your practice right away to stay grounded and help clients regulate their emotions
- A very brief history of Polyvagal Theory
- The purpose of Polyvagal Theory – what it tells us about regulation, connection and disconnection
- Exploring the three major principles of Polyvagal Theory
- How – and why – Polyvagal Theory actually works
- Your introduction to the autonomic nervous system (ANS)
- How the ANS’s development is influenced by trauma and repaired via connection and healing
- Understanding “the vagal brake”
- The 3 Polyvagal states
- How to recognize when a client presents in each of the three states
- Co-regulation – how to use this essential therapeutic tool
- Neuroception and how the ANS determines safety
- How neuroception drives the state and the story
- Genomics and neuroception
- What to do when neuroception says danger and it’s safe, and vice-versa
- How do we explain in Polyvagal terms the needy, difficult, eager-to-please etc client?
- Polyvagal techniques you can use right away
- Mapping: how to follow the three neural pathways to identify triggers
- Ventral vagal anchors: how the vagus nerve responses to feeling safe and connected
- Triggers and glimmers map: following the things that move us into sympathetic or dorsal vagal responses
- Regulating resources map: a roadmap to easily recognise ANS responses
- Movement: hone your clinical skills with somatic awareness
- Connection through mirroring: how to use the neural circuits that calm the heart, gut and turn of fear responses
- Rupture and repair: how and when to give the nervous system cues of safety
- Reciprocity and repair: Receiving, attuning and resonating connection between two Autonomic Nervous Systems
- The Polyvagal approach to ‘stuckness’ and the struggle to change
- Helping our clients move from loneliness and disconnection to connection, safety, solitude, and stillness
- Integrating Polyvagal Theory with the modalities you’re already using in psychotherapeutic practice
- What happens in a Polyvagal therapy session?
- Live expert demonstration of a Polyvagal therapy session with Ari Badaines, PhD
3-Day Immersive Retreat
18-21 November 2024 | Quarantine Station, Manly | Maximum of 55 people
This week only! Save up to $400 with Early Registration!
Includes 28.5 CPD Hours
Ari is one of our most popular faculty. He has trained thousands of clinicians across the globe. Don’t miss out on your chance to join this coveted training opportunity.
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"Ari’s training style was engaging,
thoroughly enjoyable and educational. He presented with a perfect balance of
knowledge,
wisdom and playfulness. I thoroughly enjoyed this workshop and have taken a significant
amount of knowledge home with me. In sum it was succinct, informative and
relatable!"
3-Day Immersive Retreat
18-21 November 2024 | Quarantine Station, Manly | Maximum of 55 people
This week only! Save up to $400 with Early Registration!
Includes 28.5 CPD Hours
Register now to get 2 complimentary bonus seminars (A $269.90 value, yours FREE)
Presented by: Jackie Burke, MAPS, ISSTD, APS
In this self-paced training, you’ll get practical skills to teach clients to regulate
their nervous systems and emotions. You’ll get powerful techniques for recognizing and
treating both hyper arousal and hypo arousal of the nervous system.
You’ll
learn the best strategies to maximise your own ability to maintain a state of calm,
centred responsiveness and thus maximise your effectiveness with
clients.
You’ll leave this practical, experiential online training with a
full toolkit of effective strategies to manage dysregulation and restore a balanced
regulated state within your clients and yourself.
Presented by: Ari Badaines, PhD
Get powerful strategies to guide clients from anger to calm and learn how to client to effectively manage their anger in the moment (and beyond).
- Techniques to help your client move from anger dysregulation to regulation.
- Tools to help the therapist/counselor manage your own reactions to client's anger.
- The countertransference reaction: how to use it to enhance therapeutic outcomes.
3-Day Immersive Retreat
18-21 November 2024 | Quarantine Station, Manly | Maximum of 55 people
This week only! Save up to $400 with Early Registration!
Includes 28.5 CPD Hours