Stephen W. Porges, Janina Fisher, Deb Dana, and more! – Applying the Polyvagal Theory to Improve Client Outcomes

Name: Stephen W. Porges, Janina Fisher, Deb Dana, and more! - Applying the Polyvagal Theory to Improve Client Outcomes
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Polyvagal Theory has revolutionized our understanding of both how the body’s autonomic nervous system responds to fear and trauma and how therapists can work with it to create safety, connection, and lasting healing.

Now you can join Stephen Porges, creator of the evidence-based Polyvagal Theory, as well as some of the leading experts on applying Polyvagal Theory in clinical practice (Janina Fisher, Deb Dana, and more) to learn how the Polyvagal Theory leverages neurobiology and psychophysiological cues to enhance your ability to treat trauma, anxiety, addiction, depression, and a host of other mental health conditions.

Get practical guidance into the therapeutic power of facial expression, eye contact, voice modulation, and listening to help your clients overcome traumatic experiences, attachment wounds, and self-regulation problems—insight that can enhance any therapeutic approach and help you achieve lasting clinical outcomes. Through interactive demonstrations, in-session videos, and engaging discussions, you’ll learn practical methods of applying Polyvagal Theory within the clinical setting to help clients of all ages.

You’ll walk away with proven strategies and effective interventions that build client safety and connectedness.

Experience in action the clinical applications of the Polyvagal Theory and learn why leading therapy experts including Bessel van der Kolk, Janina Fisher, Pat Ogden, Rick Hanson, and others have integrated this insight into their work.

Get instant access to four modules of in-depth clinical training that will help you incorporate the transformative power of Polyvagal Theory and the Social Engagement System in your practice.

Module 1 – Understanding Polyvagal Theory: Emotion, Attachment, and Self-Regulation

Featuring Stephen Porges, PhD, renowned researcher and Polyvagal Theory originator

Join Stephen Porges to gain a foundational understanding of the principles of the Polyvagal Theory and its illuminating insight into the social engagement system that revolutionized the field’s ability to achieve groundbreaking clinical outcomes. Get expert, practical guidance into the therapeutic power of facial expression, eye contact, voice modulation, and listening to help your clients process their emotions, traumatic experiences, attachment, and self-regulation issues. This introductory session will fully inform you about the science of the Polyvagal model so you can begin to further explore its clinical applications.

Module 2 – Bringing a Polyvagal Perspective into Therapy: How to Safely Navigate Emotional Storms

Featuring Deb Dana, LCSW, expert instructor and author on applying Polyvagal in clinical practice

In this session, you’ll discover how to help your clients navigate the storms of fight, flight, and collapse responses by harnessing the healing potential of the autonomic nervous system. Learn simple, yet powerful methods of using your eyes, voice, breath, and body to create an environment of safety for your clients, and help them understand their internal emotions and state of being so they can enhance their capacity for self-regulation.

Module 3 – Harnessing the Polyvagal System to Help Clients with Anxiety, Depression, and Anger

Featuring Dafna Lender, LCSW, and Jonathan Baylin, PhD, expert instructors in applying Polyvagal across the lifespan

Enhance your ability to establish a powerful sense of trust and connection, even with your most distrusting clients, using the power of the Polyvagal system. Learn to apply vocalizations, facial expressions, and gestures to elicit more open and collaborative communication. Explore step-by-step exercises and games to help guarded or angry clients feel more open, anxious clients relax, and depressed clients feel energized—effective strategies for both adult and young clients.

Module 4 – Brain Switch – Apply Polyvagal and Memory Reconsolidation Theories with Parts Work, Somatic, and Mindful Approaches

Featuring Kate Cohen-Posey, MS, LMHC, LMFT, leading instructor on integrating complex neurological research with clinical approaches

Discover how to translate the cutting-edge advances in brain research into practical methods to reduce clients’ resistance, transform deeply disturbing emotions, and enhance your current treatment interventions. In this session, you’ll get access to tools developed from Polyvagal Theory and memory reconsolidation to regulate sensations from disturbing emotions. Explore how to integrate a variety of popular therapeutic approaches into a three-step, brain-based protocol that can be used with diverse populations and ages.

Meet the Course Experts:

Stephen W. Porges, PhD, is Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University, where he is the founding director of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium within the Kinsey Institute. He holds the position of Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Maryland. He served as president of both the Society for Psychophysiological Research and the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences, and is a former recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Development Award. He has published more than 300 peer reviewed scientific papers across several disciplines including anesthesiology, biomedical engineering, critical care medicine, ergonomics, exercise physiology, gerontology, neurology, neuroscience, obstetrics, pediatrics, psychiatry, psychology, psychometrics, space medicine, and substance abuse. In 1994 he proposed the Polyvagal Theory, a theory that links the evolution of the mammalian autonomic nervous system to social behavior and emphasizes the importance of physiological state in the expression of behavioral problems and psychiatric disorders. The theory has led to innovative treatments based on insights into the mechanisms mediating symptoms observed in several behavioral, psychiatric, and physical disorders. He is the author of The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-regulation (Norton, 2011), The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe, (Norton, 2017) and co-editor of Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory: The Emergence of Polyvagal-Informed Therapies (Norton, 2018). He is the creator of a music-based intervention, the Safe and Sound Protocol™, which currently is used by more than 1000 therapists to improve spontaneous social engagement, reduce hearing sensitivities, and improve language processing, state regulation, and spontaneous social engagement.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Stephen Porges is a professor at the University of North Carolina. He is an author for W. W. Norton and receives royalties. Dr. Porges receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Stephen Porges has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.

Janina Fisher, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and instructor at the Trauma Center, founded by Bessel van der Kolk, MD. A faculty member of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, an EMDR International Association consultant, past president of the New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation, and former instructor, Harvard Medical School, Dr. Fisher lectures nationally and internationally on the integration of the neurobiological research and new trauma treatment paradigms into traditional psychotherapies.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Janina Fisher is in private practice. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Nonfinancial: Janina Fisher has no relevant nonfinancial relationship to disclose.

Deb Dana, LCSW, is coeditor, with Stephen Porges, of Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory: The Emergence of Polyvagal-Informed Therapies and the author of The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation. She is a clinician and consultant specializing in working with complex trauma and is the coordinator of the Kinsey Institute Traumatic Stress Research Consortium. She developed the Rhythm of Regulation Clinical Training Series and lectures internationally on ways in which Polyvagal Theory informs work with trauma survivors.Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Deb Dana receives royalties as an author for W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Non-financial: Deb Dana has no relevant non-financial relationship

Kate Cohen-Posey, MS, LMHC, LMFT, is the director of Psychiatric & Psychological Services in Lakeland, FL and has 40 years of clinical experience. Her best-selling client handout books offer concise information on common disorders and relationship problems; Making Hostile Words Harmless teaches how to disarm attack-defend-withdraw neural pathways and is endorsed by Stephen R. Lankton, protégé of Milton Erickson; Empowering Dialogues Within gives more than 50 examples of brain change strategies by wiring negative brain centers with their counterparts in the positive frontal lobe through dialogue. She is the inventor of the Handy Brain Model – a teaching tool that makes complex neurological information understandable. Kate has a knack for integrating wisdom from CBT, Ericksonian hypnosis, Gestalt, Ego State, EMDR, Somatic, and Brain-spotting therapies with knowledge emerging from neuroscience and brain imaging studies. She has also studied with the Hokori-Ji Zen Center and has been practicing yoga for many years.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Kate Cohen-Posey receives compensation as Director of Psychiatric and Psychological Services. She receives royalties as an author from John Wiley & Sons, Inc., and Rainbow Books, Inc. Ms. Cohen-Posey has an ownership interest with Handy Brain Model. Kate Cohen-Posey receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.Nonfinancial: Kate Cohen-Posey is a member of the Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing International Association (EMDRIA); and the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (AAMFT).

Dafna Lender, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker who has worked in the field of child welfare and child mental health for 20+ years. Dafna serves as the program director at The Theraplay Institute in Evanston, IL and is certified as a practitioner, supervisor and trainer in both Theraplay and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP). Dafna trains psychotherapists internationally in these methods and trains in three languages.

Dafna’s focus is children’s development of a secure attachment with their caregivers while resolving issues in their traumatic history. Early in her career, Dafna worked in treatment foster care and witnessed child after child “fail” out of foster placements due to difficult behavior. Children were disruptive, unsettled, unhappy, and their caregivers felt defeated. Dafna’s sense of discouragement went away after taking the Theraplay training and learning direct, concrete ideas and interactions that she could apply in home with her treatment families to promote healthier, stable relationships. Dafna has successfully treated children with a variety of backgrounds, including children raised in orphanages, with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, exposed to domestic and community violence, and children of parents with chronic mental illness.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dafna Lender has an employment relationship with The Theraplay Institute. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Dafna Lender has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.

Jonathan Baylin, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist with 30 years of experience, offers the workshop “Putting the Brain in Therapy.” He’s coauthoring a book with Daniel Hughes on the parenting brain and treatment for parents experiencing blocked care.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Jon Baylin receives royalties as an author for Norton Press.
Non-financial: Jon Baylin has no relevant non-financial relationship.

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