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"Reframing addiction and its treatment through the lens of Experiential Psychotherapy, Polyvagal Theory, Interpersonal Neurobiology and Imago Relationship Therapy, Jan Winhall has produced a brilliant synthesis and expansion of addiction theory and treatment that should be read by all therapists, not just addiction specialists." ―Harville Hendrix, PhD, and Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD, authors of Doing Imago Relationship Therapy in the Space Between
Course Overview
Begins September 26, 2024, and meets Thursdays from 12pm-2pm ET (September 26, October 31, November 21, December 19, January 30, and February 27). Your six-month cohort will meet live on Zoom each month for two hours and be supplemented with one-on-one partner practice sessions and self-paced course content.
HARNESSING EMBODIED WISDOM There's no denying that there's a powerful movement in the trauma field towards helping clients to connect with embodied wisdom. Many trainings emphasize the importance of this connection but do not actually provide the specifics on how to help your clients feel into their bodies. In order to assist our clients, we need to engage in our own felt sense experiencing. My training offers you a safe and powerful way to explore your own felt sense experience and to bring this process to your clients.
Whether you are a therapist, coach, or bodyworker, my Felt Sense Polyvagal Model™ is a generic framework that can support any modality. It will help you to help your clients harness the wisdom of their body as a powerful healing tool.
WHAT IS THE FELT SENSE POLYVAGAL MODEL™? The Felt Sense Polyvagal Model™ helps people transition from being stressed, overwhelmed, or addicted…to becoming more regulated, grounded, and calm in their bodies. The model integrates Porges’ Polyvagal theory, and Gendlin’s Felt Sense Focusing Oriented Psychotherapy process, enabling us to appreciate trauma/addictive behaviors as adaptive responses to maladaptive environments. It shifts the current pathologizing paradigm to a strength based approach and provides a generic framework that can support any therapeutic modality. Therapists, coaches, bodyworkers are all welcomed here.
THE RISE OF ADDICTIONS AND OTHER TRAUMA RESPONSES: A NEW APPROACH NEEDED Addictions and other trauma responses are increasing day by day. We desperately need a fresh approach that treats the trauma of addiction where it lives: in the body. The fields of trauma and addiction have developed separately, and yet when we treat one, we are very often working with the other. The state of addiction is traumatic in and of itself and so, it’s important to work with both! In this course, we will explore the intersection of trauma and addiction and how to address both with an embodied approach.
PARTNERSHIPS AND A GROWING COMMUNITY OF LIKE-MINDED THERAPISTS Participants of this course will gain focusing partnerships and become part of a growing supportive community of like-minded therapists who understand the importance of a polyvagal lens in working with clients. This certificate course will include six 120-minute live Zoom classes, once a month. The first 75 minutes of each class will be spent with elaboration of the prerecorded material that students receive each month. This will include examining research in the area of Polyvagal Theory, experiential therapy, and trauma-informed practice. In the final 45 minutes of the class you will break into small supportive groups where assistants help you to learn the embodied practices of mindfulness and focusing, so that you will be able to facilitate these processes with your clients in a therapeutic context.
Participants of this course will be assigned into focusing partnerships, a neural exercise in co-regulation which can be used as a therapeutic tool as well as a contemplative practice. You will meet with your focusing partner for about one hour on each of the weeks when there is not a live class to practice on your own time. Jan Winhall responds individually to each submitted process recording, so you can connect directly with her throughout the course. At least 15 partner sessions must be logged for the Proficiency in Focusing Partnership (PFP) Award, which is about 3 sessions per month.
In order to create a safe-enough container, participants are expected to engage in a private, quiet setting, with their cameras “on,” as we will be working experientially.
Over the six months' duration of this course, we will have time to really integrate all the material, get to know each other and form relationships that can endure over a lifetime.
APPLYING THE FELT SENSE POLYVAGAL MODEL™ Participants will be guided in the use of tools for applying the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model™ to treat trauma and addiction. The Felt Sense Polyvagal Dialogue is a tool that integrates Imago therapy with the model. This provides a methodology for working with couples and families that engages them in an embodied approach. The course also includes a description of the theoretical framework, and an introduction to The Embodied Assessment and Treatment Tool™ (EATT) with in-depth training on how to use it. This tool reflects the experiential nature of a body based psychotherapy.
Instruction will be given on how to apply the model through live demonstrations, experiential exercises in how to teach mindfulness and focusing, and presentations of case examples.
Upon passing a final course quiz, participants will receive:
-- 21 Approved CE’s
-- a Polyvagal-Informed Certificate
--Proficiency in Focusing Partnership (PFP) Award from the International Focusing Institute
FOCUSING PARTNERSHIPS In addition to class time you will be meeting with your Focusing Partner once a week, excluding the week that we meet for the Zoom class, so three times a month. In order to receive the Proficiency in Focusing Partnership (PFP) Award you must provide documentation of 15 Partner sessions over the six months. You will need at least 50 minutes - totaling 12.5 hours during the course. Each person gets 20 minutes of Focusing and your partner reflects back your felt sense. Jan Winhall responds individually to each submitted process recording, so you can connect directly with her throughout the course. This practice is a lifelong gift. I strongly encourage you to fully embrace it.
ATTENDANCE 100% live attendance is required. If you MUST miss one class, attendance in the make up class is required in addition to viewing the recording of the first 75 minutes of the class that you missed. One make up class is provided after the end of the course. These are the attendance requirements for the 2 certificates and CEs.
REQUIRED READING (to be completed prior to or during the course)
• Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model, by Jan Winhall, Routledge, 2021. Purchase now20% off purchase using this code: FSPM23
• International Body Psychotherapy Journal Vol. 21, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2022: Revolutionizing Addiction Treatment with The Felt Sense Polyvagal Model™ by Jan Winhall and Stephen W. Porges. • Gendlin, E. T. Focusing. (1978/1981). New York: Bantamdell.
ADDITIONAL INFO Jan's website: www.janwinhall.comJan's email: jan@janwinhall.com
Students will have access to the course for 300 days from the registration date. 3 month payment plan is available at registration.
HARNESSING EMBODIED WISDOM There's no denying that there's a powerful movement in the trauma field towards helping clients to connect with embodied wisdom. Many trainings emphasize the importance of this connection but do not actually provide the specifics on how to help your clients feel into their bodies. In order to assist our clients, we need to engage in our own felt sense experiencing. My training offers you a safe and powerful way to explore your own felt sense experience and to bring this process to your clients.
Whether you are a therapist, coach, or bodyworker, my Felt Sense Polyvagal Model™ is a generic framework that can support any modality. It will help you to help your clients harness the wisdom of their body as a powerful healing tool.
WHAT IS THE FELT SENSE POLYVAGAL MODEL™? The Felt Sense Polyvagal Model™ helps people transition from being stressed, overwhelmed, or addicted…to becoming more regulated, grounded, and calm in their bodies. The model integrates Porges’ Polyvagal theory, and Gendlin’s Felt Sense Focusing Oriented Psychotherapy process, enabling us to appreciate trauma/addictive behaviors as adaptive responses to maladaptive environments. It shifts the current pathologizing paradigm to a strength based approach and provides a generic framework that can support any therapeutic modality. Therapists, coaches, bodyworkers are all welcomed here.
THE RISE OF ADDICTIONS AND OTHER TRAUMA RESPONSES: A NEW APPROACH NEEDED Addictions and other trauma responses are increasing day by day. We desperately need a fresh approach that treats the trauma of addiction where it lives: in the body. The fields of trauma and addiction have developed separately, and yet when we treat one, we are very often working with the other. The state of addiction is traumatic in and of itself and so, it’s important to work with both! In this course, we will explore the intersection of trauma and addiction and how to address both with an embodied approach.
PARTNERSHIPS AND A GROWING COMMUNITY OF LIKE-MINDED THERAPISTS Participants of this course will gain focusing partnerships and become part of a growing supportive community of like-minded therapists who understand the importance of a polyvagal lens in working with clients. This certificate course will include six 120-minute live Zoom classes, once a month. The first 75 minutes of each class will be spent with elaboration of the prerecorded material that students receive each month. This will include examining research in the area of Polyvagal Theory, experiential therapy, and trauma-informed practice. In the final 45 minutes of the class you will break into small supportive groups where assistants help you to learn the embodied practices of mindfulness and focusing, so that you will be able to facilitate these processes with your clients in a therapeutic context.
Participants of this course will be assigned into focusing partnerships, a neural exercise in co-regulation which can be used as a therapeutic tool as well as a contemplative practice. You will meet with your focusing partner for about one hour on each of the weeks when there is not a live class to practice on your own time. Jan Winhall responds individually to each submitted process recording, so you can connect directly with her throughout the course. At least 15 partner sessions must be logged for the Proficiency in Focusing Partnership (PFP) Award, which is about 3 sessions per month.
In order to create a safe-enough container, participants are expected to engage in a private, quiet setting, with their cameras “on,” as we will be working experientially.
Over the six months' duration of this course, we will have time to really integrate all the material, get to know each other and form relationships that can endure over a lifetime.
APPLYING THE FELT SENSE POLYVAGAL MODEL™ Participants will be guided in the use of tools for applying the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model™ to treat trauma and addiction. The Felt Sense Polyvagal Dialogue is a tool that integrates Imago therapy with the model. This provides a methodology for working with couples and families that engages them in an embodied approach. The course also includes a description of the theoretical framework, and an introduction to The Embodied Assessment and Treatment Tool™ (EATT) with in-depth training on how to use it. This tool reflects the experiential nature of a body based psychotherapy.
Instruction will be given on how to apply the model through live demonstrations, experiential exercises in how to teach mindfulness and focusing, and presentations of case examples.
Upon passing a final course quiz, participants will receive:
-- 21 Approved CE’s
-- a Polyvagal-Informed Certificate
--Proficiency in Focusing Partnership (PFP) Award from the International Focusing Institute
FOCUSING PARTNERSHIPS In addition to class time you will be meeting with your Focusing Partner once a week, excluding the week that we meet for the Zoom class, so three times a month. In order to receive the Proficiency in Focusing Partnership (PFP) Award you must provide documentation of 15 Partner sessions over the six months. You will need at least 50 minutes - totaling 12.5 hours during the course. Each person gets 20 minutes of Focusing and your partner reflects back your felt sense. Jan Winhall responds individually to each submitted process recording, so you can connect directly with her throughout the course. This practice is a lifelong gift. I strongly encourage you to fully embrace it.
ATTENDANCE 100% live attendance is required. If you MUST miss one class, attendance in the make up class is required in addition to viewing the recording of the first 75 minutes of the class that you missed. One make up class is provided after the end of the course. These are the attendance requirements for the 2 certificates and CEs.
REQUIRED READING (to be completed prior to or during the course)
• Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model, by Jan Winhall, Routledge, 2021. Purchase now20% off purchase using this code: FSPM23
• International Body Psychotherapy Journal Vol. 21, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2022: Revolutionizing Addiction Treatment with The Felt Sense Polyvagal Model™ by Jan Winhall and Stephen W. Porges. • Gendlin, E. T. Focusing. (1978/1981). New York: Bantamdell.
ADDITIONAL INFO Jan's website: www.janwinhall.comJan's email: jan@janwinhall.com
Students will have access to the course for 300 days from the registration date. 3 month payment plan is available at registration.
• Six 120-minute live monthly Zoom classes
• 9 hours of self-paced lectures by Jan Winhall
• Recorded conversations between Jan Winhall, M.S.W. F.O.T. and Stephen Porges, Ph.D.
• Focusing partnership: experiential instruction in partnered focusing/listening practice, a co-regulating tool and contemplative practice
Format
hybrid
Recommended Audience
Clinicians, coaches, bodyworkers, and other healthcare providers.
CE's and/or Certificate of Completion Available
21 hours of CE credit provided by the Spiritual Competency Academy for an $80 fee.
Polyvagal-Informed Certificate upon completion of the course.
Polyvagal-Informed Certificate courses offer a deeper level of training including:
• 20+ hours of curriculum
• Live interaction with instructor
• Application exercises and embodiment practices
• Group discussion and individual reflection
• Assessment(s) to demonstrate understanding
• Polyvagal-Informed Certificate
Please note: because we are not an accrediting agency, neither the Certificate of Completion nor the Polyvagal-Informed Certificate offers licensure or certification of any kind. We do not measure nor endorse one’s ability to teach Polyvagal Theory or use the term “PVI certified.” However, the Polyvagal Institute affirms that certificate training results in a polyvagal-informed level of knowledge and application.
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What is the attendance policy for a course?Live/Hybrid courses: While specific course policies may vary, we typically allow one absence for a live or hybrid course and require watching the recording and/or sometimes submitting a reflection for the missed session. If a participant is absent for more than the permissible number of live sessions, they may no longer be eligible to receive their certificate. Self-paced courses: Attendance does not apply to self-paced courses as they are designed to be consumed when the student is willing and able to take the course. All material is pre-recorded content, reading, or individual assignments. Please note that if you are enrolled in a course that offers CEs (continuing education credits) and you have opted to earn them, specific attendance policies apply and must be adhered to in order for you to remain eligible to earn CEs at the end of the course. Contact us for details if you are unsure of the attendance policy for your particular course!
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How and where are live sessions held?Live sessions are held online via Zoom. You will find your course Zoom link inside the course content on our Learning Platform once you enroll; email reminders with the Zoom link are sent to enrolled students. While having your camera on is not required, you are invited to turn your camera on during your live course session; this allows you to share in co-regulation with other learners and to build a sense of community.
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What if I am unable to attend a live session?We upload recordings of our live course sessions to our Learning Platform within 72 hours for you to view. (Please see the attendance policy above.)
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How can I tell what time the live session will be in my local time zone?To convert live course session meeting times to your local timezone, please use a conversion website like this.
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Where can I find the course material?PVI uses a Learning Platform (LMS) called Thinkific. Upon enrolling in a course, you will receive an email invite to access the course in Thinkific. This is where you'll find all of the course materials, links, and class community.
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Is this course accredited?PVI is the founding home of Polyvagal Theory, and we believe our courses offer the most accurate and up to date content about Polyvagal Theory and its many applications. There is no accrediting body for this type of curriculum. Our course descriptions will list any continuing education credits (CEs/ CEUs) or other professional benefits that might be available for the course (along with any applicable restrictions). If CEs are not listed for a particular course, then none are available.
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How do I reset my password to the PVI Learning Platform?You can reset your password by going to https://pvi.thinkific.com/users/sign_in and clicking the “Forgot Password?” link. You will then enter the email address you used when creating your account to receive a one-time password reset link. Use the instructions in that email to complete your password reset. If you have any other technical questions, feel free to reach out to us at info@polyvagal.org.
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Is there closed captioning?Yes. Most of our pre-recorded course content is hosted on a platform that offers closed captioning. If you come across a video that does not have closed captioning, please send us a message at info@polyvagal.org and we will be glad to assist you.
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In which currency are your prices listed in?Our prices are listed in USD (United States Dollars). Your credit card or bank statement will likely reflect the price in your local currency.
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Will I be charged sales tax?If you are located in the US or Canada, you will be charged sales tax on the cost of your course.
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Are there scholarships available?Yes, PVI offers scholarships for all of our courses on a rolling basis. You can apply for a scholarship at https://forms.gle/vvfQdyAtw3k79LpM9.
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Are there group discounts?Yes. For groups of five or more participants, a 15% discount is available for each participant. Please contact us at info@polyvagal.org to inquire and to enroll as a group!
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What is your refund policy?We are proud to offer a 30 day Money Back Guarantee for all of our courses (from date of purchase for self-paced courses and from date of first live session for live courses). Please reach out to us at info@polyvagal.org if you'd like to inquire about a refund.
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Can I purchase a gift certificate for PVI courses?Give the gift of learning! Yes, Polyvagal Institute offers digital gift certificates that arrive by email, and can be used towards any of our courses. Gift certificates are a simple way to share polyvagal insight and knowledge that stems from a better understanding of the human experience. Purchase a gift certificate now!
INSTRUCTOR(S)
Jan Winhall MSW RSW FOT
Jan Winhall, M.S.W. F.O.T. is an author, teacher and seasoned trauma and addiction psychotherapist. She is an Educational Partner and Course Developer with the Polyvagal Institute where she teaches a certificate course based on her book Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model, Routledge 2021. She is an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Toronto and a Certifying Coordinator with the International Focusing Institute. Jan is Co-Director of the Borden Street Clinic where she supervises graduate students. She enjoys teaching all over the world. You can reach her at https://janwinhall.com
Jan Winhall MSW RSW FOT
Stephen W. Porges, PhD
Stephen W. Porges, PhD
Stephen W. Porges, Ph.D. is a Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University where he is the founding director of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium in the Kinsey Institute. He is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, and Professor Emeritus at both the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Maryland. He served as president of 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 is the originator of the Polyvagal Theory, a theory that emphasizes the importance of physiological state in the expression of behavioral, mental, and health problems related to traumatic experiences. He is the creator of a music-based intervention, the Safe and Sound Protocol ™ , which currently is used by approximately 4,000 therapists to improve spontaneous social engagement, to reduce hearing sensitivities, and to improve language processing, state regulation, and spontaneous social engagement. Dr. Porges is a founder of the Polyvagal Institute.
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