- Watch 15.25 hours of recorded training videos (home study CE)
- Attend the following live online sessions
- 2.0 hours - Introductions, meet and greet
- 15.0 hours - Module 1-5 trainings
- 3.0 hours - Trainer experiential (no CE)
- 4.0 hours - Small group consultation (no CE)
- 1.5 hours - Consultant experiential (no CE)
- 3.0 hours - Q&A with Deb Dana
- Read the comprehensive resource manual and handouts, exercises and reading
- Successfully complete post-tests
Become confident in applying Polyvagal practices in your clinical work!
The next cohort begins April 8 • Space is limited to 48 clinicians!
An Invitation from Deb Dana…
I'm excited to announce that enrollment is now open for my 6-month immersive program! This is an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of your own nervous system and learn the fundamentals of Polyvagal-Informed Therapy.
Polyvagal theory has profoundly changed our healing ability by offering insight into the inner workings of our bodies and nervous systems. Backed by decades of scientific research, it offers the roadmap that will help clients overcome anxiety, depression, traumatic stress reactions, panic, burnout, insomnia, and much more!
Now you can become confident in applying Polyvagal practices in your clinical work!
This is your special invitation to join me and my team of Polyvagal-Informed senior trainers…
… for this deeply interactive learning experience where you'll learn about your own autonomic patterns and develop Polyvagal-Informed skills through personal exploration clinical demonstrations, experiential learning sessions, and engaging, face-to-face webinars.
You'll work step-by-step in small groups with my trusted trainers and consultants over the course of the training… and spend two sessions with me to get answers to your specific questions.
This program takes you beyond the basics and I'm proud to partner with PESI to offer it to you.
Space is limited to 48 clinicians… register today and start your journey!
Sincerely,
Deb Dana, LCSW
Deb Dana, LCSW
Deb Dana's Foundations of Polyvagal Informed Practice
An Immersive 6-Month Training Program to Become Polyvagal-InformedThe next training begins April 8 · Space is limited to 48 clinicians!
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This unique training offers a deeply interactive learning experience and grounding in Polyvagal Theory.
Hand selected by Deb Dana, the Foundations of Polyvagal senior trainers and consultants will guide you through this immersive 6-month training to help you gain the confidence and expertise you need to successfully integrate Polyvagal Theory into your clinical practice.
In this course you will learn:- How to understand and work with your own autonomic nervous system
- The organizing principles of Polyvagal Theory
- How to create autonomic maps and use them as a guide in treatment
- Skills to track habitual response patterns
- Ways to build individual and interactive resources to shape the nervous system toward connection
- Practices that engage the co-regulating pathways of the social engagement system
- Working with therapeutic rupture and repair
- Beginning techniques to reshape the autonomic nervous system
- How to introduce a Polyvagal approach into clinical practice
As you move through this training, the trainers and consultants will bring the theory to life in their teaching, practices and in the way they navigate the world. By the end of this training, you'll befriend your own nervous system, learn the theory, and embody the practices! Click here for course objectives and outline.
Seats are limited to 48 per cohort, make sure you reserve your spot today — only $99/down!
Deb Dana's Foundations of Polyvagal Informed Practice
An Immersive 6-Month Training Program to Become Polyvagal-Informed
The next training begins April 8 · Space is limited to 48 clinicians!
An Immersive 6-Month Training Program to Become Polyvagal-Informed
The next training begins April 8 · Space is limited to 48 clinicians!
REGISTER TODAY for just $99/down!
Just $2,000.00 Today
Earn up to 36.75 CE Hours — Up to 21.5 Live CE hours & up to 15.25 Self-Study CE Hours
Credit details coming soon...
Credit details coming soon...
Can't attend all sessions live? Recording access is available. Click here for details.
HOW THE 6-MONTH TRAINING WORKS
Deb's training is divided into five comprehensive training modules with over 49 hours of LIVE training, LIVE Q&As, recorded lectures, readings, plus, hands-on large and small group work.
Upon registration, the training will kick off with preliminary self-study content from Deb. Then on March 26, the self-study component for Module 1 will be available in your portal. On April 8, we come together for the first live virtual training. Subsequent self-study modules with Deb will be available in your portal after each virtual live training module.
As you move through the program, Deb's senior trainers and consultants will walk alongside you through live trainings, experiential and consultation sessions—module by module—to bring the theory to life in their teaching, practices and in the way they navigate the world.
In addition to Deb's presence throughout the training through the recorded content, Deb will offer two 90-minute Q&A sessions during the series. Along with reviewing the written and recorded material, you will be asked to complete practice assignments between training dates to gain confidence and expertise.
You'll also get lifetime access to Deb's comprehensive training materials, including her recorded sessions, slides, handouts, and exercises she's developed to add to your clinical toolbox and use with your clients.
By registering for this immersive training, you agree to watch all the training videos and read the assigned material prior to each live session. You also agree to attend all live training and consultation sessions.*
By the end of this training, you'll befriend your own nervous system, learn the theory, and embody the practices!
Deb Dana's Foundations of Polyvagal Informed Practice
An Immersive 6-Month Training Program to Become Polyvagal-Informed
The next training begins April 8 · Space is limited to 48 clinicians!
An Immersive 6-Month Training Program to Become Polyvagal-Informed
The next training begins April 8 · Space is limited to 48 clinicians!
REGISTER TODAY for just $99/down!
Just $2,000.00 Today
Earn up to 36.75 CE Hours — Up to 21.5 Live CE hours & up to 15.25 Self-Study CE Hours
Credit details coming soon...
Credit details coming soon...
Can't attend all sessions live? Recording access is available. Click here for details.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
By registering for this immersive training, you agree to watch all the training videos and read the assigned material prior to each live session. You also agree to attend all live training and consultation sessions. However, we get it, emergencies can come up. If you're absolutely unable to attend a live session or need to view it after the live date, you'll have access to the recording for 30 days in your portal. There is no self-study credit available for the recordings of the live training sessions.
We've made it easy to enroll! Get started today for just $99! Click here for Payment Plan Information.
Up to 36.75 CE hours, depending on your individual board, credit details coming soon. No additional CE hours are available for the FIVE consultation sessions. We've worked hard to make sure as many licensed mental health and medical professionals are covered by this amazing training program.
This is a hybrid 5-module cohort course with over 49 hours of exclusive live training and consultation sessions with Deb's senior trainers, hands-on large and small group work with Deb's senior trainers, plus, exclusive Q&A with Deb. The pre-recorded trainings are with Deb.
You'll get lifetime access to Deb's comprehensive training materials, including her recorded sessions, slides, handouts, and official exercises she's developed to add to your clinical toolbox and use with your clients. The live sessions will only be available for 30 days after the live session.
Yes! Our mission is to help you thrive in your practice. If you're not 100% satisfied and decide this program is not for you within 30 days, contact us and we'll make it right.
Deb Dana's Foundations of Polyvagal Informed Practice takes you beyond the basics. There is no other training program in the clinical application of Polyvagal Theory like this.
Developed by Deb Dana, this comprehensive training program is designed to help you apply what Deb's learned over the years to your practice — no matter what approaches you already use, this will integrate beautifully into your work and add to your skills as a therapist.
Along with her trusted inner circle of senior trainers, Deb's foundational training program will help you bring Polyvagal Theory into your practice with confidence and guide you on the path towards becoming truly polyvagal-informed!
Developed by Deb Dana, this comprehensive training program is designed to help you apply what Deb's learned over the years to your practice — no matter what approaches you already use, this will integrate beautifully into your work and add to your skills as a therapist.
Along with her trusted inner circle of senior trainers, Deb's foundational training program will help you bring Polyvagal Theory into your practice with confidence and guide you on the path towards becoming truly polyvagal-informed!
TRAINING PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Introduction and Orientation to Foundations of Polyvagal Informed Practice Training Series
In this session, we'll begin the paradigm shift to looking through the lens of the nervous system and to embody the practices. You'll learn how the structure of the training supports the dual focus of getting to know your own nervous system and bringing a polyvagal approach to clinical work. You'll meet the training and consulting team and all the members of the cohort as well as spend time with your polyvagal partner, small consultation group, and your group of 16.
Friday, April 8 · 10:00a-12:00p EST | Interactive session with the Foundations of Polyvagal senior trainers Peggy Hough, MA, LCPC, CACD, and Tove Borgendale, LMT, as well as consultants Dawn Wilcox, MSW, LCSW, Mia Tootill, LMSW, CMT-P, and Aisling Leonard‐Curtin, MSc, C.Psychol, PsSI.
Live component | Friday, April 8 · 10:00a-12:00p EST
- Learn how the structure of the training supports the dual focus of getting to know your own nervous system and bringing a polyvagal approach to clinical work
- Meet the training staff
- Large group brief introductions
- Small group introductions with assigned consultant
- Four-person consultation groups
- Polyvagal Partnerships
- Full group Q&A
Module 1 — Getting to Know the Nervous System
In this live online session, the framework of the hierarchy will be used to look at the relationship between states and explore the essential need for ventral vagal oversight in the system. Module 1 materials will be the entry point into the process of befriending your own nervous system.
Friday, April 29 · 10:00a-1:00p EST | Module 1 live online training with the Foundations of Polyvagal senior trainers Peggy Hough, MA, LCPC, CACD, and Tove Borgendale, LMT.
Self-Study component | Released Saturday, March 26
- Becoming Polyvagal Informed
- Why Study Polyvagal Theory
- Getting to Know the Nervous System
- From Safety to Survival
- Vagal Brake Discussion
- Vagal Brake Demo with Lacey
- Vagal Brake Demo with Tina
- Honoring the Vagal Brake Meditation
- Why We Map
- The Personal Profile Map
- The Personal Profile Map Demo
- The Skill of Savoring
- Savoring Demo
- An Integrated System Meditation
- Creating Ventral Vagal Anchors
- Creating Ventral Vagal Anchors with Pete
- Soup of the Day Sharing and Discussion
- Discussion of the autonomic hierarchy
- Review of autonomic mapping
- Vagal Brake live demo and dyadic practice
- Exploration of ventral regulation
- Q&A
- Discussion of homework assignments
Trainer Experiential
In this 90-minute session, you will meet with one of the trainers in a group of 24 for Q&A and an experiential practice to deepen your understanding of the material from Module 1.
Friday, May 6 · 11:00a-12:30p EST | Interactive live online training with the Foundations of Polyvagal senior trainers Peggy Hough, MA, LCPC, CACD, and Tove Borgendale, LMT.
Small Group Consultation
In your small group consultation, you will review the Personal Profile Map and discuss material from the first module with time for Q&A.
Friday, May 20 · Varying one hour time slots will be available | Interactive live online training with the Foundations of Polyvagal senior consultants.
Module 2 — Autonomic Protection and Connection
In this live online session, autonomic patterns of protection and connection will be explored through getting to know the three pathways of neuroception and working with the elements of the social engagement system.
Friday, June 3 · 10:00am-1:00p EST | Module 2 interactive live online training with the Foundations of Polyvagal senior trainers Peggy Hough, MA, LCPC, CACD, and Tove Borgendale, LMT.
Self-Study component | Released Saturday, April 30
- Exploring a Polyvagal Approach
- Exploring Neuroception
- The Social Engagement System
- Why We Track
- Discussion of Foundations Demos
- The Triggers and Glimmers Map
- Triggers and Glimmers Map demo
- SIFTing Demo with Jen
- SIFTing with Pete
- SIFTing Discussion
- Talking about Art Mapping
- Four Map Tracking
- Four Map Tracking with Cameron
- Exploring the Social Engagement Scale
- Feeling the Face Heart Connection Meditation
- Exploring Regulated Pathways
- Working with Triggers and Glimmers
- SIFTing live demo and dyadic practice
- Sending cues of welcome and warning
- Q&A
- Discussion of homework assignments
Small Group Consultation
In your small group consultation, you will review the Triggers and Glimmers Map and discuss material from the second module with time for Q&A.
Friday, June 24 · Varying one hour time slots will be available | Interactive live online training with the Foundations of Polyvagal senior consultants.
Consultant Experiential
In this 90-minute experiential session, you will meet with your group of 16 and primary consultant to engage in an experiential practice that deepens your capacity to notice your own autonomic state and anchor in regulation.
Friday, June 17 · 11:00a-12:30p EST | Interactive live online training with the Foundations of Polyvagal senior consultants.
Live Q&A with Deb Dana
In this first live Q&A with Deb Dana, you will have the opportunity to talk with Deb about what you are learning, how it is changing how you understand yourself and your clients, and ask questions about application to your clinical work.
Friday, July 1 · 10:00a-11:30a EST | Interactive Q&A video call with Deb Dana.
Module 3 — Resourcing Regulation
In this live online session, you'll discuss the moments of rupture that inevitably happen in clinical work and the process of autonomic repair. You'll explore a variety of ways to return to, and anchor in, regulation.
Friday, July 8 · 10:00am-1:00p EST | Module 3 live interactive online training with the Foundations of Polyvagal senior trainers Peggy Hough, MA, LCPC, CACD, and Tove Borgendale, LMT.
Self-Study component | Released Saturday, June 4
- Emergent Properties
- The Stress to Stretch Continuum
- Playing with Proximity
- Setting up a Session
- The Story of Three States
- Exploring States
- Pathways of Connection
- Safely Connected
- Three Circuits/Six States
- Regulating Resources Map
- Regulating Resource Map Demo with Pete
- How to use the Time and Tone Graph
- Time and Tone Graph and Discussion
- Creating a Personal Connection Plan
- Introducing Polyvagal Theory Demo with Pete
- Talking Polyvagal Theory with Jerry
- Rupture and Repair
- Rupture and Repair Discussion
- Self-Compassion Practice
- Looking for Playful Moments
- Map, Track, Honor, Nourish Meditation
- Safely Still Meditation
- Working with regulating resources
- Introducing Polyvagal Theory to clients
- Blended States
- Q&A
- Discussion of homework assignments
Small Group Consultation
In your small group consultation, you will review the Regulating Resources Map and discuss material from the third module with time for Q&A.
Friday, July 15 · Varying one hour time slots will be available | Interactive live online training with the Foundations of Polyvagal senior consultants.
Module 4 — Navigating the Hierarchy
In this live online session, the focus will be on the relationship between states and the ways the system is shaped by moving down and up the hierarchy. A variety of ways to travel between states and increase autonomic flexibility will be explored.
Friday, August 12 · 10:00am-1:00p EST | Module 4 interactive live online training with the Foundations of Polyvagal senior trainers Peggy Hough, MA, LCPC, CACD, and Tove Borgendale, LMT.
Self-Study component | Released Saturday, July 9
- The Autonomic Benefits of the Natural World
- "Naturescape" downloadable video
- Beginning a Session
- Five Minute Check-In
- Creating Continuums
- Continuum Demo
- Three New Ways
- Shaping with Movement
- Moving Through the Hierarchy
- Mirrored Movement
- Moving with a Couple
- Energy and Actions
- Breath
- Vocalization
- Musical Maps
- Musical Maps with Carlie
- Reflecting with Compassion - Loving Kindness
- Solitude to Social
- Solitude to Social Revisited
- Anchored in Ventral Meditation
- Demo with Donna
- Shaping Practices
- Listening to Stories of Three States live demo and dyadic practice
- Q&A
- Discussion of homework assignments, plan for between module work
Small Group Consultation
In your small group consultation, you'll review ways to shape the system and discuss material from the fourth module with time for Q&A.
Friday, August 19 · Varying one hour time slots will be available | Interactive live online training with the Foundations of Polyvagal senior consultants.
Live Q&A with Deb Dana
In this second live Q&A with Deb Dana, you will have the opportunity to talk with Deb about what you are learning, how it is changing how you understand yourself and your clients, and ask questions about application to your clinical work.
Friday, September 9 · 10:00a-11:30a EST | Interactive Q&A video call with Deb Dana.
Trainer Experiential
In this 90-minute session, you will meet with one of the Foundations Series senior trainers in a group of 24 to create your Polyvagal Launch Plan.
Friday, September 16 · 11:00a-12:30p EST | Interactive live online training with the Foundations of Polyvagal senior trainers Peggy Hough, MA, LCPC, CACD, and Tove Borgendale, LMT.
Module 5 — Integration and Ending
In this final live online session, you will explore what it means to be polyvagal informed and discuss the essential elements of polyvagal informed therapy.
Friday, September 23 · 10:00am-1:00p EST | Module 5 interactive live online training with the Foundations of Polyvagal senior trainers Peggy Hough, MA, LCPC, CACD, and Tove Borgendale, LMT.
Self-Study component | Released Saturday, August 13
- Autonomic Alphabets
- Using Pie Charts
- Exploring the Hierarchy
- Sending and Receiving Ventral Energy
- Engaging in Autonomic Change
- The Experience of Being Between
- Forgiveness
- Transcendent Experiences
- Safety is the Treatment
- The Flow of Therapy
- Polyvagal Guided Practice
- Building a Micro-Community
- Launch Plan
- Benevolence Meditation
- Polyvagal Theory in the Sand Demo
- Demo with Steve
- Sending and Receiving Ventral Energy live demo and dyadic practice
- The Steps of a Polyvagal Informed Session
- What it means to be polyvagal informed
- Large group discussion of next steps and final words
Deb Dana's Foundations of Polyvagal Informed Practice
An Immersive 6-Month Training Program to Become Polyvagal-Informed
The next training begins April 8 · Space is limited to 48 clinicians!
An Immersive 6-Month Training Program to Become Polyvagal-Informed
The next training begins April 8 · Space is limited to 48 clinicians!
REGISTER TODAY for just $99/down!
Just $2,000.00 Today
Earn up to 36.75 CE Hours — Up to 21.5 Live CE hours & up to 15.25 Self-Study CE Hours
Credit details coming soon...
Credit details coming soon...
Can't attend all sessions live? Recording access is available. Click here for details.
Meet the Course Experts:
Deb Dana, LCSW, is a clinician, consultant, and author 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 trained in Internal Family Systems, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and Tapas Acupressure Technique, and completed the Certificate Program in Traumatic Stress Studies at the Trauma Center.
Deb is a founding member of the Polyvagal Institute, clinical advisor to Khiron Clinics, and an advisor to Unyte. She 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, 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 www.rhythmofregulation.com.
Peggy Hough, MA, LCPC, CACD, is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and Certified Alcohol and Other Addiction Counselor specializing in the treatment of addictive disorders and trauma. Peggy has worked and studied with Pia Mellody and is a certified PIT Therapist (Post-Induction Therapy). She completed the three-year Somatic Experiencing Professional Training Program based on Peter Levine's groundbreaking research on the treatment of trauma. She is a NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) Master's Level Clinician. Peggy’s most recent passion is her work with Polyvagal Theory. After studying the theory based on Stephen Porges’ work and having the opportunity to assist Deb Dana in teaching the theory, Peggy now teaches the foundations of the theory to students around the world under the supervision of Deb Dana.
Peggy works with adolescents and adults in individual, group, couples, and family therapy. She has been in private practice for over thirty years and has extensive clinical expertise with diverse populations and has worked with multidisciplinary staffs. Peggy’s clinical work history includes working in treatment and hospital settings as well as private practice. She conducts clinical trainings on a variety of subjects and provides clinical supervision.
Drawing from her own recovery, education, spiritual journey, and the wisdom of her many beloved mentors, Peggy works primarily from a family systems orientation and is Polyvagal guided. Her goal has consistently been to help individuals identify and build on their own strengths to achieve their personal goals.
Tove Borgendale, LMT, has over 25 years of experience working with complex and preverbal trauma and takes a holistic approach to healing body/mind/spirit and heart. She is licensed as a massage therapist with a focus in developmental and strain trauma as it relates directly to befriending, honoring and trusting our bodies. In addition to multiple hands-on modalities, Tove draws upon Barbara Brennan energy healing, Nondual Kabbalistic Healing, Nondual Shamanism, and The Polyvagal Theory in her work with clients.
Tove is a mother, a visual artist, and a teacher of Nondual Shamanism, as well as multiple topics in The Polyvagal Theory, including assisting Deb Dana in her Rhythm of Regulation and Foundations Trainings. She loves helping people become more fully themselves.WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
"…Deb Dana brilliantly transforms a neurobiologically-based theory into clinical practice and Polyvagal Theory comes alive." — Stephen W. Porges, PhD, Originator of Polyvagal Theory
"Absolutely wonderful… I learned so much new information, it will be incredibly helpful in my work! I have been in practice for 25 years; Thank you!" — Anya G.
"Thank you...I needed this! Dana was smooth, professional, supportive, and safe." — Jaci B.
"So enjoyed this course that I've just purchased two books by the presenter (one coming out soon)." — Jean P.
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Deb Dana's Foundations of Polyvagal Informed Practice
An Immersive 6-Month Training Program to Become Polyvagal-Informed
The next training begins April 8 · Space is limited to 48 clinicians!
An Immersive 6-Month Training Program to Become Polyvagal-Informed
The next training begins April 8 · Space is limited to 48 clinicians!
REGISTER TODAY for just $99/down!
Just $2,000.00 Today — Unbelievable Savings!
Earn up to 36.75 CE Hours — Up to 21.5 Live CE hours & up to 15.25 Self-Study CE Hours
Credit details coming soon...
Credit details coming soon...
Can't attend all sessions live? Recording access is available. Click here for details.