Be we working in mental health, trauma therapy, integrative medicine, or wellness coaching, the ability to identify, evoke, facilitate, and stabilize your client's connection systems (ventral vagal physiology) will profoundly improve their healing outcomes. Client ability to experience, access, and stabilize ventrality IS the container in which healing takes place. This is under-emphasized in clinical pedagogy, to its detriment.
This is a graduate-level lecture series in the applications of Polyvagal Theory, and Hearth Science’s research that extends it, into the context of developmental and clinical work with individual patients and groups in the healing arts. This course is intentionally trans-disciplinary.
In this autumn lecture series, Gabriel will teach a connection phenomenological approach to the clinical applications of Polyvagal Theory and its extension through Hearth Science research (Beyond Polyvagal Theory), based on a thorough grounding in autonomic neuro-anatomy, and the conceptual underpinnings of Polyvagal Theory, e.g., neuroception, interoception, Jacksonian dissolution, pure Autonomic states, spectrum of hybridity, and insights from our research. In the second part of the course we will transition to clinical application, focusing on tracking nervous system states in vivo, archetypal motor gesture, non-verbal communications of state, linguistic expressions of state, and healing trajectories. This lecture series is focused on the deepening and facilitation of connection states.
WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR: Integrative physicians, naturopathic physicians, psychologists, nurses, trauma therapists, addiction therapists, practitioners of mindbody medicine, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, licensed professional clinical counselors, bodyworkers, wellness coaches, life coaches, interested laypeople (non-professionals).
ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR: Gabriel is Founder of Hearth Science, Convener of the Restorative Practices Alliance, and Founder of BEYOND WELLNESS. A connection phenomenologist and neural cartographer, he is the developer of the Hearth Science modality, and has led over 2,500 trainings at the intersection of neurophysiology and indigenous and ancestral lifeways internationally. He was asked to train the entire faculty of the Stanford University School of Medicine in Hearth Science, and has trained tribal leaders. He is principal architect of the Restorative Practices Deep Learning platform, Host and Director of the Restorative Practices Film Series and the Connection Masterclass. His writing has appeared in Psychology Today, and he is author of the Connection Phenomenology series. He stewards an eco-reserve in Northern California where Hearth Science is headquartered.
