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The polyvagal Theory: demysTifying The body’s response To Trauma (This presentation was part of the Attachment and Trauma Congress, Rome 2014)
Human responses to trauma and abuse are devastating and compromise subsequent social behavior and emotion regulation. Understanding the mechanisms underlying the “hardwired” response to life threat, may demystify these debilitating consequenc- es. The Polyvagal Theory provides a plausible explanation of how trauma experiences and chronic abuse disrupt homeostatic physiological processes and social behavior and how clinical treatments might be designed to remediate these problems and how trauma distorts perception and displaces spontaneous social behaviors with defen- sive reactions. The presentation will focus on the restorative power of understanding the adaptive function of stress reactions as an important adjunct to treatment. By deconstruct- ing the biobehavioral features of stress reactions, both client and therapist are better informed in their journey to a successful outcome. The presentation will emphasize the role of “neuroception,” a neurophysiological process through which our nervous system evaluates risk in the environment, without awareness and often independent of a cognitive narrative. Trauma may reset neuroception to protect us from others when there is no “real” danger. The presentation will inform the therapist on how to assess the deleterious consequences of trauma-related experiences by understand- ing the adaptive psychological, behavioral, and health features of each of the three “Polyvagal” visceral response strategies (i.e., social engagement, mobilization, and immobilization ) and how successful therapeutic interventions promote a neurocep- tion of safety with the consequential improvements in mental and physical health by enabling mobilization and immobilization to occur without fear.
“CONNECTEDNESS AS A BIOLOGICAL IMPERATIVE: UNDERSTANDING THE CONSEQUENCES OF TRAUMA, ABUSE, AND CHRONIC STRESS THROUGH THE LENS OF THE POLYVAGAL THEORY” (This presentation was part of the Attachment and Trauma Congress, London 2017)
Polyvagal Theory expands our understanding of normal and atypical behavior, mental health, and psychiatric disorders. Polyvagal Theory, by incorporating a developmental perspective, explains how maturation of the autonomic nervous system forms the neural “platform” upon which social behavior and the deve- lopment of trusting relationships are based. The theory explains how reactions to danger and life threat and experiences of abuse and trauma may retune our nervous system to respond to friends, caregivers, and teachers as if they were predators. The theory may help practitioners distinguish the contextual features that trigger defense from those that are calming and support spontaneous social engagement.
The Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe. (This presentation was part of the Attachment and Trauma Congress, New York 2017)
Safety is critical in enabling humans to optimize their potential. The neurophysiological processes associated with feeling safe are a prerequisite not only for social behavior but also for accessing both the higher brain structures that enable humans to be creative and generative and the lower brain structures involved in regulating health, growth, and restoration. The Polyvagal Theory explains how social behavior turns off defenses and promotes opportunities to feel safe. It provides an innovative model to understand bodily responses to trauma and stress and the importance of the client’s physiological state in mediating the effectiveness of clinical treatments. From a Polyvagal perspective, interventions that target the capacity to feel safe and use social behavior to regulate physiological state can be effective in treating psychological disorders that are dependent on defense systems.
"Creating a security story: a polyvalent guide to connection" (Taken from Live Webinar November 2020)
The autonomic nervous system plays a crucial role in our daily lives, powerfully affecting our experiences of safety and influencing our ability to connect. The Polyvagal Theory describes the different autonomic circuits at the origin of certain behaviours and beliefs, allowing us to understand the body-brain pathways that determine the emergence of our personal safety and survival history. Today, we know that trauma blocks the development of autonomic regulation and profoundly affects the nervous system, inhibiting its ability to connect and determining the development of protective patterns. For many clients, states of attachment/escape and collapse are frequent, intense and prolonged, while the state of safety and connectedness is elusive. Using an updated map of the autonomic nervous system, we can, therefore, arrive at a new understanding of the post-traumatic patterns that characterise hyperarousal, hypervigilance, disconnection and insensitivity, and effectively help our clients to abandon their survival-oriented adaptive responses, accessing the state of safety - regulated by the autonomic nervous system - necessary for successful therapeutic treatment. A Polyvagal Theory-guided approach to therapy offers the therapist a set of strategies to identify and interrupt the protective patterns to which the client habitually resorts, facilitating the development of skills that allow them to fully experience - and 'savour' - safety-related experiences. If we speak the language of the nervous system, we can help our clients safely tune into their autonomic states, reshape their nervous system, and rewrite the traumatic history they each carry within their autonomic pathways.
EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
- Apply the three organizational principles of the Polyvagal Theory to one’s clinical work;
- Use autonomic mapping during clinical sessions;
- Use the Social Involvement System as a source of co-regulation during clinical sessions.
“The Polyvagal Theory for Children: Practical Application to Build Safety, Create Attachment, and Develop Connection” (Taken from Live webinar October 2021)
Do you know therapists who seem to have “the magic touch” when it comes to getting children to trust and connect with them? What if there are actual behaviours that you can learn and incorporate into your way of being with children that can solicit openness, relaxation and trust? Join Dafna Lender, LCSW, for this compelling live webinar, as she walks you through the complexities of using polyvagal theory with your young clients. Using your own social engagement system and tuning into the child’s physiological state you’ll learn:
Regulating and calming techniques for more curiosity, openness & connection. How sending safety messages to brains of mistrusting kids will make them more open to new relational experiences. To use voice, rhythm, facial expressions and touch to elicit trust. To surprise the brain of a defensive child with novel responses to grab attention, interrupt their automatic defensiveness, and generate curiosity. Exercises and activities to make shut down, guarded or angry clients feel more relaxed, open and ready to connect.
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Polyvagal Theory – Application for Children:
Harnessing your Social Engagement System:
• How to Reset when Compromised by Stress and Trauma
• Elicit Trust – Voice, Rhythm, Racial Expressions, Touch
• Exercises that hone in on various vocal qualities
• Create and maintain an open facial expression with defensive children
•Strategies to incorporate safe touch
•Playfulness and Paradox to Suspend Defensiveness
Surprise the brain of a defensive child with novel responses to:
• Grab attention
• Down-regulate sympathetic activation
• Interrupt automatic defensiveness
• Generate curiosity
Movement and Breathing Exercises to Create Connection:
• Ventral vagal activities for open and engaged state
• Promote attachment behavior
• Dorsal vagal activities to pendulate between arousal and relaxation
• Rhythmic activities for maintaining regulation
• Counteracting shut down, guarded or angry behavior (responses)
Learning objectives of the Workshop:
Applying the Polyvagal Model to increase patients’ emotional self-regulation (This presentation was part of the webinar made in autumn 2021)
In this two-part course, Dr. Baylin will first explain how the polyvagal model connects to emotion regulation and the processes of shifting between states of openness and self-defense. The goal of part one is to give therapists a brain-based explanation of the polyvagal model and how it helps to understand a wide range of clinical problems that all share difficulties with regulating strong affect, with staying in “the window of self-regulation”. Dr. Baylin believes that therapists can incorporate knowledge about the polyvagal model into their daily practice more effectively when they first have a good working knowledge of these processes. He will discuss the difference between automatic, “bottom up” state shifting and “top down” state shifting to lay the foundation for Part Two when we will focus on how to strengthen our ability to use the top down intentional processes to manage polyvagal state changes. The top down mode of state shifting arises from humans’ unique ability to regulate the state shifting process rather than being at the mercy of the automated process that can create chronic problems with emotion regulation. Dr. Baylin will also discuss how individual differences in the functioning of the polyvagal systems arise from a combination of genetic differences and the effects of life experiences on the development of the polyvagal systems with an emphasis on the effects of early life experience on the development of the polyvagal systems.
Building on the brain-based model of state shifting described in Part One, Dr. Baylin will use Part Two to discuss a number of different ways to promote intentional, mindful regulation of internal state shifting to support improved emotion regulation. Dr. Baylin will apply Porges’ concept of “neural exercises” to help therapists learn how to access the ventral vagal system that supports healthy emotion regulation and social engagement. He will explain a number of different pathways or “portals” into the ventral vagal system that we can use to promote more effective emotion regulation and state shifting in ourselves and in our patients. In addition, Dr. Baylin will discuss the role of the therapist as a “social buffering”, coregulating, “brain whispering” partner in the process of helping patients’ shift from chronic self-defensiveness into the state of open engagement.
Learning objectives of the Webinar:
Revolutionizing Trauma and Addiction Treatment with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model™ | (This presentation was part of the webinar made in July 2022)
The Felt Sense Polyvagal Model™ (FSPM) shifts the current pathologizing paradigm to a strength-based approach. Through the lens of Stephen Porges’ Polyvagal theory, addiction is seen as an adaptive stress response in our autonomic nervous system. Addictive behaviors are the bodies attempt to emotionally regulate by acting as propellers that facilitate neurophysiological shifts in our nervous system. The model integrates Porges’ Polyvagal theory and Gendlin’s Felt Sense Focusing Oriented Psychotherapy enabling us to appreciate trauma/addictive behaviors as adaptive responses in maladaptive environments. The FSPM provides a generic framework that can support any therapeutic modality. This 6 hour webinar will present an introduction to my book Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model. I will give a detailed description of the integrative theoretical framework of the model as I developed it over four decades in working with trauma survivors. Application of the model will be demonstrated in an introduction to The Embodied Assessment and Treatment Tool.™ (EATT)™
The EATT™ provides a somatic assessment of client’s capacity to regulate their autonomic nervous system, and integrate embodied experiences. As you develop the experiential assessment over time it becomes an organized treatment plan and can be stored online as a clinical record. The EATT™ package is downloadable on my website. Detailed examples of how to use the Tool will be demonstrated. Carnes Three Circle Practice, a tool for working with addiction, will be explained so clinicians can apply the model right away. Participants will also learn about Gendlin’s Focusing/Felt Sense method of psychotherapy and how to guide clients into connecting with their bodies. A mixture of didactic information, experiential practices, demonstrations, and case examples will guide the clinician in applying the model. This course will be informative for those new to the field of trauma/addiction as well as seasoned practitioners.
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