The Polyvagal Certificate Course: Safety, Connection, and the Human Experience 08 (Jun-Nov 2025)

The Polyvagal Certificate Course

Safety, Connection, and the Human Experience - Cohort 08 (Jun-Nov 2025)

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Student Reviews

The Polyvagal Certificate Course

Ruth Sudilovsky-Pecha

I strengthened my understanding of the PVT and enjoyed getting different perspectives of how to work with clients from the different instructors. I have mor...

I strengthened my understanding of the PVT and enjoyed getting different perspectives of how to work with clients from the different instructors. I have more confidence in how I can use the PVT with my client.

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Overall course feedback

Perry Devlin

I found the content and speakers throughout the course very informative and knowledgeable about their topics. There was plenty of time to go through any quer...

I found the content and speakers throughout the course very informative and knowledgeable about their topics. There was plenty of time to go through any queries including use of pods. My only criticism is the timings as it made it hard for me to engage in some sessions. Being from the UK meant this course ran at 2330 - 0130hrs which was a challenge at times. If a separate course could be organised for Europe participants in the future I think this might increase engagement and also maybe the number of interested attendees.

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Very clear

Juana Goti

It has been a very clear experience. thank you for everything.

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Introduction to Polyvagal Theory

Joan Crawford

Concise and understandable. The best summary I've seen and read. ANS is directly impacted by racism and other forms of discrimination. How do we make Black a...

Concise and understandable. The best summary I've seen and read. ANS is directly impacted by racism and other forms of discrimination. How do we make Black and White folks feel safe around each other?

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Sneak Peak into the Course

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

1. A Note from Steve
  FREE PREVIEW
2. Schedule, Time Zone Converter, & Zoom Link
3. How to Obtain CEs
  FREE PREVIEW
4. Learning Mindset Slides (From the Welcome Session)
5. Join the reflection space and conversation in the Cohort Community Page!
6. Before we begin...
7. 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: Mel Pohl, MD, DFASAM
3. Module 1 Prompts Preview
4. Prompt 1.1: Notice thoughts-emotions-body sensations
5. Prompt: 1.2: Notice physiological shifts
6. Prompt 1.3: The 3Ns Practice
7. Share your prompt self-reflections in your Cohort Community Space!
8. Path of the vagus nerve (anatomy) by Sam Webster
9. Module 1 Quiz: Autonomic Nervous System
10. Module 1 Survey
1. Attend Practice Pod 1
1. Module 2 Learning Objectives
2. Your Instructor: Michael Allison, Performance Consultant, Educator, & Author
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. Handout Reviewing Module
9. Module 2 Quiz
10. Module 2 Survey
1. Module 3 Learning Objectives
2. Your Instructor: Tracy Murnan Stackhouse, MA, OTR
3. Resource from Tracy on Neuroception
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. Module 3 Quiz
11. Module 3 Survey
1. Attend Practice Pod 2
1. Live Discussion with Special Guest
1. Module 4 Learning Objectives
2. Your Instructor: Jan Winhall, MSW, FOT
3. Download Handouts for Class: Felt Sense Polyvagal Models & Body Cards
4. Slides: Module 4 - Listening to Our Bodies
5. 7Fs popup slide
6. Slides: Module 4 - Listening to Our Bodies
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. Attend Practice Pod 3
1. Module 5 Objectives
2. Your Instructor: Niloufer Merchant, EdD
3. How My Nervous System Became My Cup of Tea | Niloufer Merchant | TEDxStCloud
4. Slides: Module 5 - Co-regulation and Safety in Connection: Biological, Cultural and Societal Implications
5. Module 5 Prompts Preview
6. Prompt 5.1: Savoring connection
7. Prompt 5.2: With whom do you feel safe?
8. Prompt 5.3: Plan coregulation with someone
9. Prompt 5.4: Your communal practices
10. Module 5 Quiz
11. Module 5 Survey
1. Module 6 Objectives
2. Your Instructor: Arielle Schwartz, PhD
3. Slides: Module 6 - PVT, Movement, and Regulation: An Embodied Approach to Trauma Recovery
4. Module 6 Prompts Preview
5. Prompt 6.1: Return to the "Reflect & Regulate Practice"
6. Prompt 6.2: Guide another through "Reflect & Regulate Practice"
7. Prompt 6.3: Return to other practices we explored
8. Self-regulation & movement (Arielle Schwartz) References
9. Module 6 Quiz
10. Module 6 Survey
1. Module 7 Objectives
2. Your Instructor: Niki Elliott, PhD, PVI Board Member
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, FAPA, PVI Board Chairman
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 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. Read - What Language Does Your Body Speak: Some Thoughts on Somatic Psychotherapies in International Contexts Contexts
7. Read (Optional) - Dancing the Wild Home
8. Module 9 Prompts Preview
9. Prompt 9.1: Sensing old and new in your body
10. Prompt 9.2: Tuning into your sequential pathways
11. Prompt 9.3: Sowing ancestral seeds
12. Prompt 9.4: Share your declaration/proclamation
13. Module 9 Survey
14. Module 9 Quiz
1. Attend Practice Pod 5
1. Please share about your pods
2. Please share about the course
1. CE Instructions

Cohort 8 begins Jun 11th, 2025: Live sessions meet Wednesdays at 11 am ET

9 Live Sessions, each with a different field expert
2 Live Discussions, 1 with Dr. Stephen Porges & 1 with another expert
5 Live Meet-Ups in pods for small group discussions

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The Polyvagal Certificate Course

Payment Options

$2,100.00

pay over 3 months

pay over 7 months

Student Reviews

The Polyvagal Certificate Course

Ruth Sudilovsky-Pecha

Overall course feedback

Perry Devlin

Very clear

Juana Goti

Introduction to Polyvagal Theory

Joan Crawford

Sneak Peak into the Course

Getting Started

Support Resources

Introduction to Polyvagal Theory

Module 1: Our Autonomic Nervous System (Mel Pohl, MD, DFASAM)

Practice Pod 1

Module 2: Hierarchy: Our Neurophysiological States (Michael Allison, founder of the Play Zone)

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

Practice Pod 2

Live Discussion with Special Guest

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

Practice Pod 3

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

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: Polyvagal Theory and Human Relationships (George Thompson, MD)

Live Discussion with Stephen Porges, PhD

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

Practice Pod 5

Course Feedback Surveys

CE Next Steps (if applicable)

Cohort 8 begins Jun 11th, 2025: Live sessions meet Wednesdays at 11 am ET

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