The Polyvagal Certificate Course: Safety, Connection, and the Human Experience 06 (Jan-May 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 Welcome
3. Time Zone Converter & Zoom Link
4. Course Schedule
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5. How to Obtain CEs (100% live attendance required)
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6. Thinkific Walkthrough: Finding live sessions & self-paced material
7. Community Agreements (Video)
8. Community Agreements (PDF)
9. Join the reflection space and conversation in our cohort App
10. Before we begin...
11. Materials for Class
12. Welcome Session
13. Welcome Session
1. Module 1 Learning Objectives
2. Your Instructor: Les Aria, PhD
3. Slides: Module 1 - Introduction to Autonomic Nervous System
4. Module 1 Prompts Preview
5. Prompt 1.1: Notice thoughts-emotions-body sensations
6. Prompt: 1.2: Notice physiological shifts
7. Prompt 1.3: The 3Ns Practice
8. Share your prompt self-reflections on the PVI App
9. Path of the vagus nerve (anatomy) by Sam Webster
10. Module 1 Quiz: Autonomic Nervous System
11. Module 1 Survey
1. Attend Practice Pod 1
1. Module 2 Learning Objectives
2. Your Instructor: Michael Allison
3. Slides: Module 2 - Hierarchy of States
4. Module 2 Prompts Preview
5. Prompt 2.1: Meet the body where it is
6. Prompt 2.2: The Habit of Safety
7. Prompt 2.3: A Morning Ritual
8. Module 2 Quiz
9. Module 2 Survey
1. Module 3 Learning Objectives
2. Your Instructor: Tracy Murnan Stackhouse, MA, OTR
3. Slides: Module 3 - Neuroception
4. Module 3 Prompts Preview
5. Prompt 3.1: Habit of Safety + Neuroception
6. Prompt 3.2: Active source of safety intention-setting
7. Prompt 3.3: Reflection on offering cues of safety
8. Neuroception Module (Tracy Stackhouse) References
9. Module 3 Quiz
10. Module 3 Survey
1. Module 4 Objectives
2. Your Instructor: Arielle Schwartz, PhD
3. Slides: Module 4 - PVT, Movement, and Regulation: An Embodied Approach to Trauma Recovery
4. Module 4 Prompts Preview
5. Prompt 5.1: Return to the "Reflect & Regulate Practice"
6. Prompt 5.2: Guide another through "Reflect & Regulate Practice"
7. Prompt 5.3: Return to other practices we explored
8. Self-regulation & movement (Arielle Schwartz) References
9. Module 4 Quiz
10. Module 4 Survey
1. Attend Practice Pod 2
1. Module 6 Learning Objectives
2. Your Instructor: Jan Winhall, MSW, FOT
3. Download Handouts for Class: Felt Sense Polyvagal Models & Body Cards
4. Slides: Module 6 - Listening to Our Bodies
5. Watch: Clearing Space Backwards on YouTube (10 min)
6. Module 6 Prompts Preview
7. Prompt 6.1: FSP Grounding Practice
8. Prompt 6.2: Polyvagal-Informed Focusing with a partner
9. Prompt 6.3: Pausing
10. Prompt 6.4: Reflective listening ("resonating")
11. Module 6 Quiz
12. Module 6 Survey
1. Module 5 Objectives
2. Your Instructor: Niloufer Merchant, EdD
3. Slides: Module 5 - Co-regulation and Safety in Connection: Biological, Cultural and Societal Implications
4. Module 5 Prompts Preview
5. Prompt 5.1: Savoring connection
6. Prompt 5.2: With whom do you feel safe?
7. Prompt 5.3: Plan coregulation with someone
8. Prompt 5.4: Your communal practices
9. Module 5 Quiz
10. Module 5 Survey
1. Attend Practice Pod 3
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. Live Discussion with Dr. Porges
1. Module 7 Objectives
2. Your Instructor: Niki Elliott, PhD
3. Slides: Module 7 - Community as Medicine
4. Module 7 Prompts Preview
5. Prompt 7.1: Observing voices in your community
6. Prompt 7.2: Radical welcome vs isolation/marginalization
7. Prompt 7.3: Discuss findings and proposed changes
8. Module 7 Quiz
9. Module 7 Survey
1. Second Live Discussion with Dr. Porges
1. Attend Practice Pod 4
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. 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 06 (Jan-May 2025)

Course curriculum

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Support Resources

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)

Module 4: Polyvagal Theory, Movement, and Regulation: An Embodied Approach to Trauma Recovery (Arielle Schwartz, PhD)

Practice Pod 2

Module 5: Interoception: Listening to Your Body (Jan Winhall, MSW, FOT)

Module 6: Co-regulation and Safety in Connection: Biological, Cultural and Societal Implications (Niloufer Merchant, EdD)

Practice Pod 3

Module 7: PVT and Human Relationships (George Thompson, MD)

First Live Discussion with Stephen Porges, PhD

Module 8: Community as Medicine (Niki Elliott, PhD)

Second Live Discussion with Stephen Porges, PhD

Practice Pod 4

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

Surveys & CE Next Steps (if applicable)

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