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In our small group setting we delve into the concepts with our bodies leading the way through felt sensing and connecting with our autonomic nervous system.
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Jan Winhall
FELT SENSE POLYVAGAL MODEL
Included in this course
Small group connection

Work with others and have the opportunity to form Focusing Partnerships with your peers.

In-Depth Applications

Learn how to apply the model with different client populations, including trauma/ addiction, dissociation, educational challenges, chronic pain, ADHD, relationship issues, sexual abuse, gender violence.

Nervous System Exploration

Deepen your work with autonomic states, integrating advanced felt sense/focusing methods of embodiment.

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Course Timing

This nine-month course begins on Thursday, September 4, 2025. The cohort will meet for two-hour sessions monthly, live on Zoom. Live sessions will be supplemented with one-on-one partner practice sessions and self-paced course content.

Classes run from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. ET:

  • September 4
  • October 2
  • November 13
  • December 4
  • January 8
  • February 5
  • March 5
  • April 2
  • May 7

Course Description

During the monthly two hour zoom classes we start with an embodied practice, and a check in, giving people an opportunity to share in the joys, the struggles, and the explorations of this important work that we do. In the second hour a volunteer presents a case using the Embodied Assessment and Treatment Tool (EATT). We dig into concepts, expanding our capacity to think at the edge, and to bring our rich experiencing into sessions. As we co-create this safe and adventurous space, we keep learning how to be intelligently present with our clients.


Focusing partnerships are encouraged and meet biweekly, forming the basis of our embodied interactions. People tell me that they feel connected, supported, and enriched in this thriving Felt Sense Polyvagal Community.


Learn more here about the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model and this sequence of courses and trainings. 


From Jan: 
"This group is like a think tank/practice lab. It has helped me to formulate and shape ideas and practices that are part of my Routledge book. It is one of my favorite places to be."


If you’re missing the community, looking to refresh your skills, or seeking input on a case, alumni of this course are welcome to drop-in to another live offering at $30/class. Please email [email protected] to drop-in to a Supervision Group class.


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Extra Details

This is a live online course. Participants must be graduates of Jan’s Treating Trauma and Addiction Certificate Course or be pre-approved by Jan Winhall.

  • Open to therapists, educators, bodyworkers, and coaches.

  • You will receive a Certificate of Completion upon finishing this course.

  • Focusing partnerships are encouraged and meet biweekly, forming the basis of our embodied interactions.

Course curriculum

    1. Jan Winhall's Intro Webinar: The Felt Sense Polyvagal Model

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    2. Mark Your Calendars: Live Sessions

      FREE PREVIEW

    3. A note from Jan

      FREE PREVIEW

    4. Direct communication with Jan

    5. Required and Recommended Reading

    1. Focusing Trainer Certification info (optional)

    2. Overview on work with addictions

    3. Primacy of Human Presence slides

    4. Youtube Focusing Resource

    5. Jan Winhall & Robert demo

    6. Trauma and Addiction: Internal Family Systems with Richard Schwartz

    7. Updated 6 Steps of Focusing Slides

    8. Some extra information on Fawning and Appeasement

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    9. Course Survey

About this course

  • $1,347.00
  • 14 lessons

Instructor(s)

Jan Winhall

Jan Winhall, M.S.W. F.O.T. is an author, teacher and psychotherapist. She is an adjunct lecturer and practicum supervisor in the Department of Social Work, University of Toronto. Jan is director of Focusing on Borden, a psychotherapy and training center. She has built a community of people who teach and practice Focusing as a way of life. Jan presents internationally on trauma and addiction. Her book, "Treating Addiction with The Felt Sense Polyvagal Model: A Bottom Up Approach" is the result of rethinking the Felt Sense Experience Model that she wrote about in Emerging Practice in Focusing- Oriented Psychotherapy, 2014. Her most recent book, "20 Embodied Practices for Healing Trauma and Addiction Using the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model" releases March 18, 2025, and will accompany her new Community Practice Groups offering. "Reframing addiction and its treatment through the lens of Experiential Psychotherapy, Polyvagal Theory, Interpersonal Neurobiology and Imago Relationship Therapy, Jan Winhall has produced a brilliant synthesis and expansion of addiction theory and treatment that should be read by all therapists, not just addiction specialists." ―Harville Hendrix, PhD, and Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD, authors of Doing Imago Relationship Therapy in the Space Between "In this insightful volume Jan Winhall brings together the essence of groundbreaking modern therapeutic practices with her own decades of hard-won clinical experience to fashion a new, deeply humane and promising model of addiction treatment, illustrated by poignant clinical vignettes." ― Gabor Maté, MD, is the author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction. "In Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model Jan Winhall introduces a new strategy to treat addiction that brilliantly integrates Gendlin’s classic concept of a felt sense with Polyvagal Theory. The author shares her intellectual journey in which unique insights transform two disparate perspectives into obvious complements leading to a powerful treatment model." ―Stephen W. Porges, PhD, scientist, author, creator of Polyvagal Theory