Day 1: The Role of the Body in Therapy and Healing

Peter A. Levine, PhD: A Deeply Personal Account: The Ordinary Miracle of Healing

Pat Ogden, PhD: Bridging the Gap: Exploring the Healing Power of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

Linda Thai, MSW, LMSW: Mapping the Nervous System: Understanding Survival Responses and the Path to Regulation

Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, MFT: The Whispers of the Soma: Slowing Down, Listening Deeply, and Honoring the Healing Process

Roger Kuhn, PhD: Somacultural Liberation: Reclaiming the Body Through Culture, Identity, and Compassion

Day 2: The Embodied Therapist and Listening to the Body

Ann Weiser Cornell, PhD: Focusing: Accessing the “Felt Sense” as a Powerful Catalyst of Transformation in Any Form of Psychotherapy

Deb Dana, MSW, LCSW: Integrating Polyvagal Theory into Psychotherapy for You and Your Clients (back by popular demand – replay from the 2022 Summit)

Staci Haines: Reclaiming the Soma: Embodied Healing Across Personal and Collective Trauma

Susan Aposhyan, MA, LPC: Somatic-Cognitive Approaches to Therapy

Dan Siegel, MD: Integration and the Mind: A Somatic View of Wholeness and Healing

Day 3: Somatic Tools in Action – Regulating, Resourcing, and Building Resilience

Bessel van der Kolk, MD and Licia Sky: Synchrony and Safety: Becoming an Anchor for Healing in Somatic Therapy

Chinwé Williams, PhD: Healing Attachment Wounds: A Somatic and EMDR-Informed Approach to Shame and Trauma

Shari Geller, PhD and Galia Tyano Ronen, MA, LCP: Grounding Psychotherapy in Presence and Self-Compassion

Susan McConnell, MA, CHT: Embodied Self Energy: Bringing the Wisdom of the Body Into Internal Family Systems Therapy

Raymond Rodriguez, Rev., MSW, LCSW: Begin with the Body: Cultivating Somatic Awareness in Therapy

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Integrating Polyvagal Theory into Psychotherapy for You and Your Clients (back by popular demand – replay from the 2022 Summit)

Deb Dana, MSW, LCSW

What you'll learn

In Deb’s warm and approachable style, understand the basic principles of Polyvagal Theory and how they shape our experience (autonomic hierarchy, neuroception, and co-regulation, and dorsal, sympathetic, ventral)
Experience practices and exercises designed to bring you and your clients into ventral regulation
Explore how Polyvagal Theory applies to our work in the therapy room and can benefit your clients

About the speakers

Deb Dana, MSW, LCSW

Deb Dana, MSW, LCSW, is a clinician, consultant, author, and speaker whose work focuses on honoring the role of the autonomic nervous system. She is a founding member of the Polyvagal Institute, a consultant to Khiron Clinics, and an advisor to Unyte. Deb is widely known for translating Polyvagal Theory into clear, accessible language and for pioneering the Rhythm of Regulation® methodology—tools, techniques, and practices that continue to make Polyvagal Theory usable for professionals and curious people from all walks of life. Deb believes that we all benefit from understanding how the nervous system works and learning how to become active operators of this essential system. This passion has led her to offer workshops in partnership with groups and communities outside the clinical arena, bringing the Polyvagal perspective into the ordinary—and sometimes extraordinary—experiences of daily life. Her clinical work, published with W. W. Norton, includes The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation; Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection: 50 Client Centered Practices; the Polyvagal Flip Chart; the Polyvagal Card Deck; and Polyvagal Practices: Anchoring the Self in Safety. She also partners with Sounds True to bring her work to a general audience through the audio program Befriending Your Nervous System: Looking Through the Lens of Polyvagal Theory and her print book Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory.