The Polyvagal Certificate Course: Safety, Connection, and the Human Experience 05 (Oct 2024-Feb 2025)

In-depth exploration of Polyvagal Theory and its application to our personal and professional lives. Guided by Dr. Porges and 9 leading experts in the fields of neuroscience, healthcare, and therapeutics, this course explores Polyvagal like no other.

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Course curriculum

1. A Note from Steve
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2. Course Schedule
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3. Schedule, Time Zone Converter & Zoom Link
4. How to Obtain CEs
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5. Community Agreements (Video)
6. Community Agreements (PDF)
7. Join the reflection space and conversation in our cohort App
8. RECORDING: Welcome Intro Polyvagal Certificate Couse cohort 5 October 2024
9. Before we begin...
10. Materials for Class
1. Watch: Navigating the Nervous System: A Polyvagal Guided Approach with Deb Dana, LCSW
2. Slides: Navigating the Nervous System Powerpoint
3. Watch: Polyvagal Theory: A Neuroscience Explaining Reactions to Safety and Threat with Dr. Stephen Porges
4. Slides: A Neuroscience View Powerpoint
1. Module 1 Learning Objectives
2. Your Instructor: Les Aria, PhD
3. RECORDING: Live Module 1: Our Autonomic Nervous System (Les Aria, PhD)
4. Slides: Module 1 - Introduction to Autonomic Nervous System
5. Module 1 Prompts Preview
6. Prompt 1.1: Notice thoughts-emotions-body sensations
7. Prompt: 1.2: Notice physiological shifts
8. Prompt 1.3: The 3Ns Practice
9. Share your prompt self-reflections on the PVI App
10. Path of the vagus nerve (anatomy) by Sam Webster
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11. Module 1 Quiz: Autonomic Nervous System
12. Module 1 Survey
1. Attend Practice Pod 1
1. Module 2 Learning Objectives
2. Your Instructor: Michael Allison
3. RECORDING: Module 2: Our Adaptive, Reflexive Response Hierarchy to Safety and Threat (Michael Allison, founder of the Play Zone)
4. Slides: Module 2 - Hierarchy of States
5. Module 2 Prompts Preview
6. Prompt 2.1: Meet the body where it is
7. Prompt 2.2: The Habit of Safety
8. Prompt 2.3: A Morning Ritual
9. Module 2 Quiz
10. Module 2 Survey
1. Module 3 Learning Objectives
2. Your Instructor: Tracy Murnan Stackhouse, MA, OTR
3. RECORDING: Module 3: Neuroception (Tracy Murnan Stackhouse, MA, OTR)
4. Slides: Module 3 - Neuroception
5. Module 3 Prompts Preview
6. Prompt 3.1: Habit of Safety + Neuroception
7. Prompt 3.2: Active source of safety intention-setting
8. Prompt 3.3: Reflection on offering cues of safety
9. Neuroception Module (Tracy Stackhouse) References
10. Resource from Tracy on Neuroception
11. Module 3 Quiz
12. Module 3 Survey
1. Attend Practice Pod 2
1. Module 4 Learning Objectives
2. Your Instructor: Jan Winhall, MSW, FOT
3. Download Handouts for Class: Felt Sense Polyvagal Models & Body Cards
4. RECORDING: Module 4: Interoception (Jan Winhall, MSW, FOT)
5. Slides: Listening to Our Bodies
6. 7Fs popup slide
7. Watch: Clearing Space Backwards on YouTube (10 min)
8. Module 4 Prompts Preview
9. Prompt 4.1: FSP Grounding Practice
10. Prompt 4.2: Polyvagal-Informed Focusing with a partner
11. Prompt 4.3: Pausing
12. Prompt 4.4: Reflective listening ("resonating")
13. Module 4 Quiz
14. Module 4 Survey
1. Module 5 Objectives
2. Your Instructor: Niloufer Merchant, EdD
3. How My Nervous System Became My Cup of Tea | Niloufer Merchant | TEDxStCloud
4. RECORDING: Module 5: Co-regulation and Safety in Connection: Biological, Cultural, and Societal Implications (Niloufer Merchant, EdD)
5. Slides: Module 5 - Co-regulation and Safety in Connection: Biological, Cultural and Societal Implications
6. Module 5 Prompts Preview
7. Prompt 5.1: Savoring connection
8. Prompt 5.2: With whom do you feel safe?
9. Prompt 5.3: Plan coregulation with someone
10. Prompt 5.4: Your communal practices
11. Module 5 Quiz
12. Module 5 Survey
1. Live Discussion with Dr. Porges
2. RECORDING: First Live Discussion with Dr. Porges, Dec 11, 2025
1. Attend Practice Pod 3
1. Module 6 Objectives
2. Your Instructor: Arielle Schwartz, PhD
3. RECORDING: Arielle Schwartz, PhD December 18th
4. Slides: PVT, Movement, and Regulation: An Embodied Approach to Trauma Recovery
5. Module 6 Prompts Preview
6. Prompt 6.1: Observing voices in your community
7. Prompt 6.2: Radical welcome vs isolation/marginalization
8. Prompt 6.3: Discuss findings and proposed changes
9. Self-regulation & movement (Arielle Schwartz) References
10. Module 6 Quiz
11. Module 6 Survey
1. Module 7 Objectives
2. Your Instructor: Niki Elliott, PhD
3. Slides: Module 7 - Community as Medicine
4. Cultivating a Mindful Response to Suffering Graphic
5. Module 7 Prompts Preview
6. Prompt 7.1: Observing voices in your community
7. Prompt 7.2: Radical welcome vs isolation/marginalization
8. Prompt 7.3: Discuss findings and proposed changes
9. Module 7 Quiz
10. Module 7 Survey
1. Attend Practice Pod 4
1. Module 8 Objectives
2. Your Instructor: George Thompson, MD
3. Slides: Module 8 - PVT & Human Relationships
4. Watch: PACE & non-PACE video
5. Module 8 Prompts Preview
6. Prompt 8.1: Practice listening to another
7. Prompt 8.2: Journal on a connected moment
8. Prompt 8.3: Complete your Polyvagal-informed, collective narrative
9. Relationships (George Thompson) References and Resources
10. Module 8 Survey
11. Module 8 Quiz
1. Second Live Discussion with Dr. Porges
1. Module 9 Objectives
2. Your Instructor: Amber Gray, PhD
3. For class (optional): print and color this vagus nerve
4. Slides: Module 9 - Engaging with the Art of Inquiry & Practice
5. Read - Vagal Pathways: Portals to compassion
6. Prompt 9.1: Sensing old and new in your body
7. Prompt 9.2: Tuning into your sequential pathways
8. Prompt 9.3: Sowing ancestral seeds
9. Prompt 9.4: Share your declaration/proclamation
10. Module 9 Survey
11. Module 9 Quiz
1. Attend Practice Pod 5
1. Please share about your pods
2. Please share about the course
3. CE Instructions

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The Polyvagal Certificate Course: Safety, Connection, and the Human Experience 05 (Oct 2024-Feb 2025)

Course curriculum

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Introduction to Polyvagal Theory

Module 1: Our Autonomic Nervous System (Les Aria, PhD)

Practice Pod 1

Module 2: Our Adaptive, Reflexive Response Hierarchy to Safety and Threat (Michael Allison, founder of the Play Zone)

Module 3: Neuroception: Surveilling Safety and Detecting Threat (Tracy Stackhouse, MA, OTR)

Practice Pod 2

Module 4: Interoception: Listening to Your Body (Jan Winhall, MSW, FOT)

Module 5: Co-regulation and Safety in Connection: Biological, Cultural and Societal Implications (Niloufer Merchant, EdD)

First Live Discussion with Stephen Porges, PhD

Practice Pod 3

Module 6: Polyvagal Theory, Movement, and Regulation: An Embodied Approach to Trauma Recovery (Arielle Schwartz, PhD)

Module 7: Community as Medicine (Niki Elliott, PhD)

Practice Pod 4

Module 8: PVT and Human Relationships (George Thompson, MD)

Second Live Discussion with Stephen Porges, PhD

Module 9: Engaging with the Art of Inquiry and Practice (Amber Elizabeth L. Gray, PhD)

Practice Pod 5

Surveys & CE Next Steps (if applicable)

About this course

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