Courses & Training
We offer professional training for practitioners, and more general courses designed to be easily accessible for non-clinicians to learn about navigating their own nervous systems. Feel free to contact us if you would like advice on choosing a course.
Rhythm of Regulation Courses
on-demand
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. Complete it at your own pace, in your timezone. This is an extensive, detailed training & thorough introductory offering to learn the fundamentals of Polyvagal-informed work, & popular starting point for both clinical and non-clinical practitioners from all backgrounds / modalities. Take a chapter by chapter look at the art & science of how to befriend the nervous system & shape it toward safety & connection.
on-demand
Learning Labs Series I: Four Specific Polyvagal Deep Dives
The Polyvagal Learning Lab Series offers therapists / practitioners an opportunity to deepen their existing knowledge. of Polyvagal-Guided Therapy. Each 90-minute module begins with a teaching piece and ends with the recorded Q&A session. Topics as follows: Lab 1- Bringing a Polyvagal Lens to your Remote Sessions / Lab 2 - Introducing PVT to Clients, Colleagues and the Greater Human Community / Lab 3 - Setting up a Polyvagal Informed Session / Lab 4 - Embodying the Polyvagal Perspective. Full series available as on-demand recordings.
live/recorded
Jan 2023: Foundations of Polyvagal-Informed Practice
Deb Dana’s unique signature training series is the only in-depth professional training available offering a deeply immersive, interactive experience in PVT for clinical application. Learn how to bring a polyvagal lens to clinical work & client sessions. 42 hours live-online training & recorded sessions. Bring Polyvagal Theory into your practice with confidence, integrate this effectively and add to your skills. Includes lifetime access to Deb Dana's unique material. Professional Credits available. Next course starts January 20th, 2023.
on-demand
Learning Labs Series II: Four Specific Polyvagal Deep Dives
Series II of the popular Learning Labs webinars, offers therapists, clinicians & practitioners an opportunity to develop & broaden their practice with a deep exploration of four specific topics within Polyvagal-Guided Therapy. Each 90-minute recorded webinar module begins with a teaching presentation and ends with the recorded question and answer session. The topics for each are as follows: Lab 1 - From State to Story / Lab 2 - Mapping the Regulated System / Lab 3 - Flavors of Autonomic Response / Lab 4 - Working with Couples.
live/recorded
Jan 2023: First UK Version of Foundations Signature Training
Deb Dana’s unique signature training series is coming to the UK! An in-depth professional training offering practitioners a deeply immersive, interactive experience, to gain a solid grounding in PVT for clinical application. Learn how to bring a polyvagal lens to clinical work & client sessions. Live-online training & recorded sessions. Bring Polyvagal Theory into your practice with confidence, integrate this effectively and add to your skills. Includes lifetime access to Deb Dana's unique material. Professional Credits available. Beginning January 13, 2023.
live / recorded
March 2023: Italian Version of Foundations Signature Training
Deb Dana’s signature professional training will now be offered in Italian with Deb teaching the live modules & transmitting her groundbreaking methodology, tools & techniques bringing PVT into clinical application in Italy. The deeply immersive Foundations training course is highly transformative both personally & professionally, & includes recorded webinars, consultations, live sessions, recorded demos, as well as downloadable handouts & scientific articles. The course has a total duration of 46 hours over 8 months beginning March 10, 2023.
Co-Hosted Trainings
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. You will get lifetime access to 6 progressive video training sessions, guided exercises, prompts, and transcripts. Involves modules on the embodied, environmental and relational pathways and a final integration session & invitation to create a personalized plan to regulate your nervous system in everyday life.
live webinar
Live Webinar: Putting PVT into Practice
Co-Hosted with
PESI
Live-online full-day webinar training, led by Deb Dana, February 16, 2023 from 8am-4pm EST. Learn Nervous System based Exercises for Anxiety, Depression, Trauma and more. Based on Deb Dana's best-selling book Polyvagal Exercises for Safety & Connection, learn to track a client’s experience & uncover the specific places that keep them stuck or cause their emotional suffering, maladaptive thoughts, un-helpful or impulsive behaviors; interrupt & re-shape habitual autonomic patterns and introduce Polyvagal practices in your sessions.
on-demand
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. Understand Deb's groundbreaking work in action through actual client sessions. Learn how she creates healing maps from a client’s own nervous system, & how to use your own nervous system to help your client stay grounded & to self-regulate. Includes an in-depth interview with Deb Dana and Stephen Porges.
in-person
Psychotherapy Networker 2023 - PVT in Action
Co-Hosted with
PsychNetworker
The 46th Annual Psychotherapy Networker Symposium, takes place between March 16-19, 2023. Join Deb Dana at this celebrated annual gathering for psychotherapists around the world. Join live in Washington DC or virtually / online. Deb’s workshop "Polyvagal Theory in Action' is on Friday March 17th, 3-5pm EST & will explore how to help clients find their way to safety, and experiment with practices that support individual and communal well-being. CE Hours available. Use the 'To Register' button below with discount code SYM50
live webinar
Live 2-Day Webinar: PVT in Action
Co-Hosted with
PESI
Live 2-day webinar training, Feb 23-24, 8am-4pm EST. Dive into Deb's groundbreaking framework & methodology, incorporating her unique tools & concepts. This one-of-a-kind training led by Deb herself, will give participants a deep knowledge of PVT via beautifully accessible language. Learn practical ways to work with the autonomic nervous system to elicit connection & safety with your clients. Discover those very techniques Deb has famously created & honed over the years as the foremost expert opening up PVT for all.
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