Deb Dana offers professional training for practitioners, and more general courses designed to be easily accessible for non-clinicians to learn about navigating their own nervous systems.  Please contact us if you would like advice on choosing a course. 

Live Events with Deb Dana

  • Polyvagal Skills and Supervision Group

    Meet monthly with a group of like-minded colleagues for transformational insights, support and personal supervision, directly from Deb Dana, LCSW, in this 6-month Polyvagal-informed skills and supervision group. Boost your confidence with even the most complex cases and learn to support your clients find their way out of distress, to feel calm and connected again.

    Live-Online | Co-hosted with PESI UK

    Begins April 24, 2024

    Earn up to 18 CPD hours

  • Super Brain Summit

    An annual conference with live and asynchronous sessions that showcase internationally known experts to talk about the many, diverse wonders of the brain. Deb is 2024’s guest speaker and is presenting the topic: Rhythms of Regulation - Polyvagal Perspectives. The presentation will be broken down into four topics: Autonomic Intuition, Regulated and Regulating, Safely Connected, and Shaping New Pathways. 

    CEUs are available. 

    April 26, 2024

    Peoria, IL

  • Polyvagal Theory in Action: Creating Safety and Connection with Trauma Clients

    Join Deb in person or live online for this two-day experiential workshop as she discusses, demonstrates, and provides practical guidance on how to use her practice-proven Polyvagal-informed approach alone to bring clients into autonomic regulation and how it can be combined with other therapeutic modalities to boost their effectiveness. Participants will also have the opportunity to ask Deb their clinical questions throughout.

    Earn up to 12 CPD hours.

    May 28 - 29, 2024

    London, UK and Live-Online

  • Advanced Workshop: Creating Safety and Connection in Your Therapeutic Process with Your Clients

    During this one day advanced workshop Deb will take participants beyond the foundational Polyvagal-informed concepts and practices and will focus on how to successfully apply advanced strategies with your clients, especially when access to a sense of safety seems far away and out of reach.

    June 13, 2024

    Potsdam, Germany

  • Polyvagal Theory and the Modern Family: Finding Safety and Connection

    Join the international polyvagal community for this unique 2.5-day event in Potsdam, Germany, where we will focus on topics including child and adolescent mental health, family relationships, and transgenerational trauma and the many applications of Polyvagal Theory.

    June 14 - 16, 2024

    Potsdam, Germany

  • Trauma Summit 2024

    June 17 - 18, 2024

    Belfast & Virtual

  • Kripalu: Anchored to Calm

    A Polyvagal Guide To Your Personal Pathway. We are wired for connection. Our nervous systems are social structures that find balance and stability in relationship with others. Our biology shapes the way we navigate living, loving, and working. Polyvagal Theory offers a way to use this understanding in service of individual, family, community, and global well-being.

    July 5–7, 2024

  • Kripalu: Polyvagal Theory and Yoga: An Embodied Path to Well-Being

    Join clinician, consultant, and author, Deb Dana, and bodyworker, anatomy teacher, and yoga teacher trainer, Melanie Burns, for a program that invites you to listen to the rhythm of your body and tune in to the important information your nervous system holds.

    July 7–12, 2024

  • Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Practical Applications for Treating Trauma

    In this experiential workshop participants will first learn the basics of Polyvagal Theory and then work with practices designed to bring the power of Polyvagal Theory directly into clinical work. The workshop will bring Polyvagal Theory into practical application with a roadmap to help clients safely tune into their autonomic states, reshape their nervous systems, and rewrite the trauma stories that are carried in their autonomic pathways.

    Cape Cod Institute

    July 22-26, 2024

  • Navigating the Nervous System: A Polyvagal Approach to Clinical Work

    Join Deb for this four-session live-online experiential and didactic training series, which will be simultaneously translated into Portuguese.

    October 18 - November 29, 2024

    Online

Rhythm of Regulation® Courses

  • Rhythm of Regulation® Polyvagal Theory in Therapy

    A great intro with ongoing access to 20+ hours of Polyvagal training presented by Deb Dana herself. Includes accompanying handouts & articles.

    On-demand

  • Foundations of Polyvagal Informed Practice Training Series

    An unparalleled professional clinical training series led by Deb and her senior training team, offering practitioners a deeply immersive and interactive learning journey to becoming polyvagal-informed.

    Live-Online

    Next Cohort Begins: September 2024

  • Learning Labs Series I: Four Specific Polyvagal Deep Dives

    An intermediate-level course designed for practitioners who have completed basic Polyvagal training.

    The Learning Lab Series I offers practitioners an opportunity to deepen their existing knowledge of Polyvagal-Guided therapy in four specific areas: Bringing a Polyvagal Lens to Remote Sessions; Introducing Polyvagal Theory to Clients, Colleagues & the Community; Setting up a Polyvagal-Informed Session; Embodying the Polyvagal Perspective.

    On-demand

  • Learning Labs Series II: Four Specific Polyvagal Deep Dives

    Part II of Deb’s popular Polyvagal Learning Labs Series.

    This intermediate-level course provides practitioners an opportunity to develop & broaden their Polyvagal-guided therapy knowledge and skills in four additional areas: From State to Story; Mapping the Regulated System; Flavors of Autonomic Response; Working with Couples.

    On-demand

  • Master Class Retreat with Deb Dana: Deepening Your Practice

    An intimate, in-person retreat-style workshop during which you will dive into the heart of Polyvagal Theory. Learn directly from Deb through engaging discussions, demonstrations, experiential exercises, and reflective practices, while being immersed in the serenity and natural landscape of the Medomak Retreat Center and connecting with like-minded peers.

    Deb's Master Class Retreats are intended for those who have completed the Foundations training series or other multi-day training with Deb. A wonderful next step for expanding your understanding of Polyvagal Theory and its transformative power and delving deeper into Polyvagal-guided clinical work and living.

    September 9 - 13, 2024

    Washington, Maine

Co-Hosted Trainings

  • Psychotherapy Networker: Masterclass

    Co-Hosted with PESI

    Polyvagal Informed Therapy Masterclass. Join Deb in a one-on-one analysis with Networker Continuing Education Director and clinician, Zachary Taylor, as they discuss Deb's unique contribution & how she works moment-by-moment in real time. See Deb Dana in action with real clients and experience how applying Polyvagal Theory insights can transform your treatment outcomes

    On-demand

  • Finding Safety in your Nervous System

    Co-Hosted with Sounds True

    This online course offers resources to help calm your body & soothe your soul. Open to all curious human beings. Here, Deb Dana provides her valuable blueprint for building resilience and finding safety during the many ups and downs of life.

    On-demand