ADVANCED: Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory

This is a 10+ hour, six-part, self-paced online class, created primarily for wellness professionals, to push out and explore the boundaries of the Clinical applications of Polyvagal Theory. With five experts in wellbeing whose clinical practice is grounded in Polyvagal Theory, we explore general clinical applications of the theory, applications in tracking neural platform in vivo, utilizing proprioception for regulation, touch, and general use of theory to support patients and clients.

Primary instruction and facilitation is by Connection Phenomenologist Gabriel Kram, who Art Directed and Authored the Official Polyvagal Theory Poster, under the supervision of Dr. Stephen Porges, has been personally mentored by Dr. Stephen Porges, and has taught the Polyvagal Theory for a decade to many thousands of wellness practitioners. With Deb Dana LCSW, LICSW, Director of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium at the Kinsey Institute, and author of The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy, Dr. Jeff Rockwell DC, MA, DOMP, who has 40 years of experience practicing and teaching Polyvagally-informed manual therapy, Neuro-developmental Occupational Therapist Letha Marchetti OTR/L, C/NDT, SEP, and Nurse Moira Theede, author of Polyvagal Theory Affirms the Importance of Nursing, in Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory, edited by Porges and Dana.

The series addresses:

1. a general framework for clinical application of the Polvagal Theory
2. developing Polyvagal tracking capabilities to increase client accompaniment
3. utilizing proprioception as a source of regulation
4. manual modalities for supporting connection and regulation, and
5. clinical applications of Polyvagal Theory in working with patients/ clients.