A Friday for Therapists: Deb Dana in Grand Rapids

Fri Feb 07 2025 at 09:00 am to 03:30 pm UTC-05:00

New Vintage Place 889 Broadway Ave NW | Grand Rapids

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A Friday for Therapists: Deb Dana in Grand Rapids
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It’s back Michigan Therapists! Join together for a relaxing day of amazing training, great food, and time spent only with other therapists.
About this Event

Therapists, as a profession, don't tend to interact much with each other. A Friday for Therapists is a yearly opportunity to change that. Join other West Michigan therapsits for a fantastic training, lunch, and time to interact.


Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Practical Applications

The autonomic nervous system is at the heart of daily living powerfully affecting our clients’ sense of safety and influencing their capacity for connection. Polyvagal Theory, developed by renowned scientist Stephen Porges, provides a map of the autonomic circuits that underlie behaviors and beliefs and an understanding of the body to brain pathways that give birth to our clients’ stories of safety and survival.

Clients come to treatment with a compromised ability to regulate their autonomic responses. The response patterns that were once adaptive and necessary for survival now bring suffering. Without intervention, adaptive survival responses become habitual autonomic patterns and pathways of connection are replaced with patterns of protection. Guided by Polyvagal Theory, we have a deep understanding of the ways experience shapes the nervous system. When we look to the autonomic nervous system we have a roadmap to creating new, resourcing patterns of connection and can reliably lead our clients into the autonomically regulated state of safety that is necessary for successful treatment.

A Polyvagal Theory informed approach to therapy begins with helping clients map their autonomic profiles and track their moment-to-moment movement along the autonomic hierarchy. With this foundation, the essential clinical questions address how to help clients interrupt habitual response patterns and find safety in a state of engagement. Using the principles of Polyvagal Theory, therapists have a guide to becoming a regulated and co-regulating resource, practical ways to effectively help clients identify and interrupt their familiar response patterns, and strategies to shape their autonomic nervous systems toward safety and connection.

Working with the autonomic nervous system brings the science of safety into practical application. When we speak the language of the nervous system, we can help clients safely tune into their autonomic states, reshape their nervous systems, and rewrite the trauma stories that are carried in their autonomic pathways.


In this workshop we’ll learn ways to bring science into clinical application as we accompany our clients on their healing journeys. Combining didactic teaching with experiential practices participants will develop an embodied understanding of the organizing principles of Polyvagal Theory and learn ways to integrate the principles into clinical work.


Participants will:

• Learn the organizing principles of Polyvagal Theory and discover how to become a regulated and regulating resource for others

• Work with practices to help clients move from dysregulation to regulation

• Experiment with ways to help clients identify and interrupt their familiar patterns of protection

• Explore skills to help clients find, and savor, experiences of safety

• Create an autonomic map for use as a guide in treatment

• Practice using the co-regulating pathways of the social engagement system to create safety in connection



Learning Objectives

At the end of the workshop participants will be able to:

• Develop an understanding of how the autonomic nervous system shapes behaviors and beliefs

• Assess client responses through autonomic state and state shifts

• Track client and clinician states of regulation and dysregulation

• Construct an autonomic map to identify the emergent properties of states

• Categorize the distinct stories that emerge from autonomic states

• Determine ways neuroception shapes behavior

• Apply strategies that utilize the co-regulating pathways of the Social Engagement System in clinical work to improve clinical outcomes



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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

New Vintage Place 889 Broadway Ave NW, 889 Broadway Avenue Northwest, Grand Rapids, United States

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USD 182.17

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