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Applying Polyvagal Theory in your practice will be one of the most transformational moments of your career!


Sadly, trauma clients are often stuck in a dysregulated state. Struggling to shift from hyperarousal to calm or from overwhelm to in control. They come to you longing to feel regulated in their daily lives.

But trauma isn’t healed through thought alone.

It requires evidence-based strategies that effectively promote regulation and build a sense of safety and connection for clients dealing with trauma-related dysregulation.

That’s why we’re inviting you to join Deb Dana, LCSW, a world-renowned expert and author on the clinical application of Polyvagal Theory (PVT), to her 2-Day Workshop: Polyvagal Theory in Action: Creating Safety & Connection with Trauma Clients training as she demonstrates how:

  • The autonomic nervous system functions as an internal security system, influencing trauma responses
  • To work with the autonomic nervous system to establish safety and more effective trauma treatment
  • To identify patterns in your clients' nervous system responses to guide treatment planning
  • Tailor techniques to a client's specific state of dysregulation
  • Integrating PVT into your practice enhances traditional therapeutic modalities
  • And so much more

Whether you attend live in “Chicagoland” or virtually from the comfort of home, this is your chance to learn from the highly acclaimed Deb Dana—for only $399.99 (a $499.99 value). You'll unlock the full potential of Polyvagal Theory to revolutionize your clinical practice and become a beacon of safety, resilience, and healing for your clients like never before!

Polyvagal Theory in Action with Deb Dana, LCSW
Creating Safety & Connection with Trauma Clients

November 18-19, 2024 • 8:00 am - 4:00 pm Central

$499.99 Value
Today Only $399.99
Only For a Limited Time! Register by 11/01/2024

Join from Oak Lawn/Chicago, IL
Hilton Chicago/Oak Lawn
9333 South Cicero Avenue
Oak Lawn, Illinois, 60453-2517

•  Earn up to 12.5 CE hours
•  Get your questions answered by
leading PVT expert Deb Dana
•  Network with peers live in person
Join virtually from home!
Broadcast live from Oak Lawn, IL

•  Earn up to 12.5 CE hours
•  LIVE video-based training
•  Get your questions answered by
leading PVT expert Deb Dana
•  Network with peers from across the country
•  Video access available for 90 days
 
Earn up to 12.5 CE Hours! Click here for Credit details | Click here for virtual CE credit details
Can't attend these dates? Order the self-study version here!
*Please note you would need to watch the presentations that are being presented live in order to receive live credit.

Honed over 14 years, Deb will guide you through techniques, experiential group activities, live demonstrations, and hands-on skills training so you can confidently:

  • Help clients use their nervous system to create a sense of safety
  • Help clients improve their ability to connect with others by using their social engagement system for better co-regulation and relationships
  • Identify patterns in your clients' nervous system responses to guide your treatment planning
  • Recognize your role in helping regulate your clients' nervous systems and how this benefits their therapy outcomes
  • Find effective ways to intervene in the autonomic nervous system to establish safety and treat trauma
  • Use the right amount of neural exercises to help clients shift their nervous systems towards safety and connection
  • Help clients repair social connections after conflicts, which is crucial for their healing
  • Develop a clinical practice guided by Polyvagal Theory, based on proper assessment and treatment planning
  • Educate your clients on the basics of Polyvagal Theory with easy-to-understand language
  • And more

“…Deb Dana brilliantly transforms a neurobiologically-based theory into clinical practice and Polyvagal Theory comes alive.” –Stephen W. Porges, PhD, Originator of Polyvagal Theory


What You’ll Learn During This 2-Day Training!


Essentials of Polyvagal Theory
  • The evolution of the autonomic nervous system
  • How trauma shapes ways the body responds
  • Three organizing principles of Polyvagal Theory:
    • Neuroception: Detection without perception
    • Hierarchy: 3 predictable pathways of response
    • Coregulation: The biological imperative

Neuroception and the Shaping of Autonomic Pathways
  • How the internal surveillance system works
  • Identifying cues of safety and danger
  • Connecting to our innate automatic wisdom
  • Understanding patterns of protection and connection
  • Moving from neuroception to awareness
  • Using the Safety/Danger Equation to resource patterns of

Navigate the Autonomic Hierarchy
  • Exploring three autonomic circuits
    • Sympathetic mobilization
    • Ventral vagal connection
    • Dorsal vagal collapse
  • How trauma shapes biology
  • Moving between states
  • Introduction to autonomic mapping
  • Creating skill with the Notice and Name practice

The Social Engagement System
  • The five elements of the Social Engagement System
  • What happens when parts of the system are unavailable?
  • Using the Social Engagement System to regulate states
  • How to "exercise" the Social Engagement system
Tracking Autonomic States
  • Seeing patterns over time
  • Use micro-moments to resource change
  • Explore the blended states of play and stillness
  • Create autonomic anchors
  • Using continuums to track changes within a state

Meeting the Biological Need for Connection
  • Creating safety in co-regulation
  • Ways to use your autonomic state as a co-regulating resource
  • Noticing moments of misattunement and making a repair

Shaping the Autonomic Nervous System Toward Safety
  • Identify portals of intervention
  • Using breath as a regulator
  • Resourcing new patterns through movement
  • Exploring the autonomic response to touch
  • Using autonomic imagery
  • Exploring the stretch to stress continuum
  • Building safety with breath, movement, and imagery
  • Writing new autonomic stories

Incorporating Polyvagal Theory in Clinical Practice
  • Getting comfortable teaching Polyvagal Theory to clients
  • Tracking the flow of a Polyvagal-guided clinical session
  • Polyvagal-guided assessment and treatment planning
  • Polyvagal Theory and Phase I trauma treatment

Responsibilities of a Polyvagal-Guided Therapist
  • The guiding questions
  • Ethical considerations
  • Research limitations and potential risk

Objectives

  1. Determine the principles of Polyvagal Theory and how to communicate them in client friendly language.
  2. Distinguish three circuits of the autonomic nervous system for use in client psychoeducation.
  3. Analyze how the autonomic nervous system operates as an internal surveillance system and its impact on clients’ habitual responses to trauma.
  4. Determine how to help clients engage the regulating capacities of the autonomic nervous system that create an environment of safety.
  5. Determine how tfeso exercise the Social Engagement System to assist clients in becoming more adept in skills of co-regulation and creating reciprocal relationships.
  6. Assess for patterns in clients’ autonomic states to better inform treatment planning.
  7. Support the trauma-informed therapist’s role as co-regulator and its impact on clinical outcomes.
  8. Distinguish portals of intervention in the autonomic nervous system to more effectively establish safety and treat trauma.
  9. Employ the right degree of neural challenge and exercises to employ with clients to help shape the autonomic nervous system toward safety and connection.
  10. Evaluate how to work with the cycle or reciprocity-rupture-repair in helping clients achieve the biological need for connection.
  11. Design a Polyvagal-guided clinical practice based on appropriate assessment and treatment planning.
  12. Categorize ethical issues, research limitations, and potential risks to be considered by a Polyvagal-guided therapist.
Polyvagal Theory in Action with Deb Dana, LCSW
Creating Safety & Connection with Trauma Clients

November 18-19, 2024 • 8:00 am - 4:00 pm Central

$499.99 Value
Today Only $399.99
Only For a Limited Time! Register by 11/01/2024

Join from Oak Lawn/Chicago, IL
Hilton Chicago/Oak Lawn
9333 South Cicero Avenue
Oak Lawn, Illinois, 60453-2517

•  Earn up to 12.5 CE hours
•  Get your questions answered by
leading PVT expert Deb Dana
•  Network with peers live in person
Join virtually from home!
Broadcast live from Oak Lawn, IL

•  Earn up to 12.5 CE hours
•  LIVE video-based training
•  Get your questions answered by
leading PVT expert Deb Dana
•  Network with peers from across the country
•  Video access available for 90 days
 
Earn up to 12.5 CE Hours! Click here for Credit details | Click here for virtual CE credit details
Can't attend these dates? Order the self-study version here!
*Please note you would need to watch the presentations that are being presented live in order to receive live credit.
See What Your Colleagues Are Saying About Deb Dana’s Training!
Meet Your Trainer


Deb Dana
Deb Dana, LCSW, is a clinician and consultant specializing in using the lens of Polyvagal Theory to understand and resolve the impact of trauma and create ways of working that honor the role of the autonomic nervous system. She developed the Rhythm of Regulation Clinical Training Series and lectures internationally on ways Polyvagal Theory informs clinical work. She is a founding member of the Polyvagal Institute, clinical advisor at Khiron Clinics, and an advisor to Unyte.

Deb is the author of The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation (Norton, 2018), Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection: 50 Client-Centered Practices (Norton, 2020), Befriending Your Nervous System (Sounds True, 2020), Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory (forthcoming from Sounds True), co-editor of Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory: The Emergence of Polyvagal-Informed Therapies (Norton, 2018), and creator of the Polyvagal Flip Chart (Norton, 2020).

To learn more, visit rhythmofregulation.com or www.polyvagalinstitute.org.

Click here for information about Deborah Dana
This event is designed for…
 
This conference is designed for:
  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Case Managers
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Nurses
  • Other Mental Health Professionals
Hotel Information
 

Conveniently located in Oak Lawn, our full-service hotel is a half mile from the Oak Lawn Metro Station. Chicago Midway Airport is only 15 minutes away on our complimentary airport shuttle. Our restaurant, South Side Social, serves our twist on South Side staples and classic drinks. Enjoy modern guest rooms, an indoor pool, and versatile meeting space.


Hilton Chicago/Oak Lawn
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Polyvagal Theory in Action with Deb Dana, LCSW
Creating Safety & Connection with Trauma Clients

November 18-19, 2024 • 8:00 am - 4:00 pm Central

$499.99 Value
Today Only $399.99
Only For a Limited Time! Register by 11/01/2024

Join from Oak Lawn/Chicago, IL
Hilton Chicago/Oak Lawn
9333 South Cicero Avenue
Oak Lawn, Illinois, 60453-2517

•  Earn up to 12.5 CE hours
•  Get your questions answered by
leading PVT expert Deb Dana
•  Network with peers live in person
Join virtually from home!
Broadcast live from Oak Lawn, IL

•  Earn up to 12.5 CE hours
•  LIVE video-based training
•  Get your questions answered by
leading PVT expert Deb Dana
•  Network with peers from across the country
•  Video access available for 90 days
 
Earn up to 12.5 CE Hours! Click here for Credit details | Click here for virtual CE credit details
Can't attend these dates? Order the self-study version here!
*Please note you would need to watch the presentations that are being presented live in order to receive live credit.
Frequently Asked Questions

Will this training provide a bunch of research, or will I learn how to apply Polyvagal Theory?

Deb Dana delivers an exercise and intervention-heavy training that will give you the tools you need to more effectively treat clients with a variety of mental health disorders, including PTSD, trauma, anxiety, depression, personality disorders, and more.


What if I don’t currently know PVT, is this training for me?

Yes! This training is for all clinicians — trained in PVT or not.


Does this training include LIVE CE hours?

Up to 12.5 LIVE CE hours are available.


If I can’t attend LIVE, can I still get credits?

Yes! Just register above and then click the "Self Study" CE button on the next page and purchase the recording package. You'll get unlimited access to the training and will be able to earn self-study CE.


Will I be able to ask Deb questions live?

YES! You'll be able to engage with the presenter and chat with colleagues throughout each presentation.


When will the replays be available and how long? Do I get them for free?

Yes! You get unlimited replay access for 90 days after the training. Replays will be available within the week after the training ends and will be in the same place where the live sessions took place in your account portal.

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