Treating Trauma with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model
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Presenter: Jan Winhall, M.S.W. P.I.F.O.T.
Description
This one-day workshop will present a deep exploration of the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model (FSPM), a radical approach for treating trauma and addiction. From an embodied perspective we will deconstruct the current top down pathologizing models of treatment, offering a new paradigm based on current neuroscience. The FSPM, formulated over forty years of clinical practice, is based on five theoretical frameworks: feminist/trauma theory, focusing/felt sense therapy, interpersonal neurobiology, the learning model of addiction, and polyvagal theory. We will examine each one as they build on the other to formulate a comprehensive treatment model that celebrates the wisdom of the body. The FSPM teaches clinicians a new way of working with two embodied processes, Eugene Gendlin’s interoceptive process called Focusing/felt sense, and Stephen Porges neuroceptive process of nervous system regulation.
Application of the model will be demonstrated in an introduction to The Embodied Assessment and Treatment Tool. (EATT)™. The EATT is a unique tool that offers practitioners a somatic assessment based on the FSPM. Instead of a pathologizing DSM model we can track neuroception and interoception to assess how embodied/integrated our clients are. We create the assessment in an Excel spreadsheet which can become part of the clinical record. A case example of this process will be included with opportunity to practice using the EATT.
This workshop will be both top down and bottom up, engaging participants in embodied practices, and conceptual frameworks. People new to polyvagal theory and those that have familiarity are welcome. This workshop will incorporate lecture and video of a case example.
In this training you will be able to:
- Translate theory into practice with graphic models that serve as aids for teaching your clients
- Name and describe the 7 Autonomic states on the FSPM client model.
- Name and describe the two main embodied processes that are the basis of the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model
- Describe the Four Circle Harm Reduction Practice
- Describe addiction and dissociation through a Polyvagal lens
- Teach clients how to engage and regulate their nervous system (neuroception)
- Educate clients on using the six steps of Focusing/Felt Sensing (interoception)
- Teach clients to use the Four Circle Harm Reduction Practice to heal from trauma and addictive processes
About Jan Winhall, M.S.W. P.I.F.O.T.
Jan Winhall is an author, teacher, and seasoned trauma and addiction psychotherapist. She is an Educational Partner with the Polyvagal Institute where she offers a training program based on her book Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model, Routledge 2021. Her new book 20 Embodied Practices for Healing Trauma and Addiction: Using the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model, (Norton) is due out March 18, 2025. She is an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Toronto and a Certifying Co-Ordinator 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 learn more about her at janwinhall.com.
COST: $200 + HST ($226 with taxes included) per workshop ($100+HST for student-trainees)
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- 20% off ($800+HST becomes $640+HST; $723.20 with taxes included) if you register for all the workshops as a bundle before March 1st, 2025!
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