2-Day Workshop-Polyvagal Theory Informed Trauma Assessment and Interventions-An Autonomic Roadmap to Safety, Connection and Healing – Deborah Dana

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Summary

• Archive: If our clients could have thought their way out of the impact of trauma, they would have done that a long time ago.Trauma resolution is not about thinking.

• Healing depends, instead, on the work undertaken at the level of the autonomic nervous system, which shapes our clients’ experiences of safety and influences their capacity for connection.

• Traumatic events have a far-reaching impact on this system.

• Autonomic pathways trigger survival responses that often lead our clients on a painful journey into a state of shutdown, collapse, and dissociation.

• How can we help our clients find their way back to safety, and how do we prevent it from happening in the first place?Polyvagal Theory, developed by Stephen Porges, offers a revolutionary roadmap to lead clients out of their adaptive survival responses into the autonomically regulated state of safety that is necessary for successful trauma treatment.