PVI APPROVED AS A POLYVAGAL INFORMED COURSE
The autonomic nervous system is at the heart of daily living powerfully shaping our experiences of safety and influencing our capacity for connection. Polyvagal Theory, through the organizing principles of hierarchy, neuroception, and co-regulation, has revolutionized our understanding of how this system works. Guided by Polyvagal Theory, we have a deep appreciation of the ways experience shapes the nervous system and of the pathways that lead to healing. Trauma interrupts the development of autonomic regulation and sidetracks building the circuitry of safe connection. Without intervention, adaptive survival responses become habitual autonomic patterns, and pathways of connection are replaced with patterns of protection. With an updated map of the autonomic circuits that underlie behaviors and beliefs, we have a new understanding of the characteristic post-traumatic patterns of hyperarousal, hypervigilance, disconnection, and numbing and can reliably lead our clients out of adaptive survival responses into the autonomically regulated state of safety that is necessary for successful treatment.
This workshop series combines didactic teaching with experiential practices to support participants in developing an embodied understanding of the organizing principles of Polyvagal Theory and integrating the principles into clinical work.
February 6: Navigating the Autonomic Hierarchy
February 13: The Process of Neuroception
February 20: Co-Regulation - Connecting Through the Social Engagement System
February 27: Integration and Application
At the end of the course participants will be able to:
Note: This course requires live participation. A certificate of completion will be issued to all participants who attended the full course. 11 CE credits are available for this course. If you would like to receive CE’s, please select this option on the registration page.