Trauma Wisdom Circle · March 2025
Healing Deep Divides
Jan Winhall · MSW, P.I.F.O.T.
This program has limited CE approval for the live Trauma Expert Teachings Zoom calls on a per-session basis (1.5 CEs per session)
CE Request Deadline
**CES MUST BE REQUESTED NO LATER THAN 60 DAYS AFTER THE LIVE CALL**
- Session 1Mar 12, 20259-10:30am PDT1.5 CEs
- Session 2Mar 19, 20259-10:30am PDT1.5 CEs
**FULL ATTENDANCE FOR THE ENTIRE 90-minute DURATION IS REQUIRED TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE CES**
MARCH 2025 Calls – Jan Winhall – Healing Deep Divides
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Course Details
Jan Winhall, MSW, P.I.F.O.T. is an author, teacher, and seasoned trauma and addiction psychotherapist. She is
an Educational Partner and Course Developer 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. Completion of four levels leads students to become Felt Sense Polyvagal Model Facilitators. 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. Jan’s new book Twenty Embodied Practices for Healing Trauma and Addiction: Using a Felt Sense Polyvagal Model is due out March 2025 with Norton. It is a manual for her first book, designed for the general public.
Content Description:
Our world is becoming more and more divided at an alarming speed. We are all experiencing global trauma. As therapists, we must learn to manage our own increasing anxiety, and at the same time provide a safe enough space for our clients to heal. We will explore how working with Polyvagal theory and the Felt Sense gives us a roadmap for healing our ruptured world. The Felt Sense Polyvagal Model outlines a step-by-step process for helping our clients find an embodied state of integration.
Course Agenda
Healing Deep Divides with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model
with Jan Winhall
Live Online Zoom Session 1 – Introduction to the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model – Wednesday, March 12th – 9-10:30am PDT/12pm-1:30pm EDT/4-5:30pm GMT
Session Overview:This session introduces the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model, (FSPM), a paradigm-shifting approach for treating trauma and addiction. Developed over forty-five years of clinical practice, the model challenges traditional top-down approaches that leave out the wisdom of the body. In our increasingly dysregulated world it is essential that we learn how to connect with our bodies’ natural ability to heal divides.
Cutting-edge neurobiological research is having a powerful impact on the field of trauma treatment, helping clinicians to appreciate the vital role of embodied processes for healing. The Felt Sense Polyvagal Model (FSPM) offers a powerful somatic therapeutic framework for helping individuals, families, and cultures to address escalating polarities. It is based on Porges Polyvagal theory, and Gendlin’s Focusing/Felt Sense, an embodied healing practice. The model teaches two skills: recognizing and rewiring nervous system states and tapping into body wisdom through the practice of felt sensing. Applications for both individual and collective healing will be discussed.
Session content
- An introduction to the early formulation of the model with feminist and trauma-informed theory. Focusing on the paradigm shift from a pathologizing to a strength-based polyvagal lens. (5 minutes)
- Introduction to Gendlin’s work with Focusing, the importance of focusing partnerships, the felt shift, the six steps of focusing, the Experiencing Scale. (15 minutes)
- Introduction of the five theories that form the foundation of the FSPM ( 5 minutes )
- Introduction of polyvagal theory and the Graphic model of the 7 F’s, with a detailed description of the seven autonomic states, including blended states. Description of the Trauma Feedback Loop and collective trauma. Discussion about Collective Co-regulation. Examples of Body Cards and how to use them (15 minutes)
- Description of the Experiencing Scale including the Autonomic states, Polyvagal Informed 6 steps of Focusing (5 minutes)
- Discussion of the Intervening Variable and two embodied processes of interoception and neuroception (5 minutes)
- An Embodied Practice: THE FELT SENSE POLYVAGAL GROUNDING PRACTICE, complete Body Card and Process recording, group sharing (20 minutes)
- Description of Collective Co-Regulation, discussion about how to apply this to your practice/life (10 minutes)
- Q and A (10 minutes)
Live Online Zoom Session 2 – Applying the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model – Wednesday, March 19th – 9-10:30am PDT/12pm-1:30pm EDT/4-5:30pm GMT
Session Overview:This session will explore the application of the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model in working with addictive/dissociative responses from an attachment/ co-regulation perspective. We will explore how individual nervous system states respond to each other and the implications for healing from collective trauma. Addictions and self-harm will be presented as state regulation strategies through the lens of the autonomic nervous system.
- Overview of Five Lessons in Polyvagal Theory (5 minutes)
- Description of Attachment theory, the four styles of attachment as they relate to polyvagal theory. (15 minutes)
- Discussion about dislocation and belonging: the role of the social engagement system, the role of the autonomic nervous system in managing emotional regulation, the importance of Fired Up versus Fight /flight in social activism. (10 minutes
- Challenging the current pathologizing model and offering a polyvagal informed strength-based model of “borderline personality “adaptation.” Discussion regarding how ‘personality disorders’ impact collective trauma. (10 minutes)
- ATTACHMENT PRACTICE: Early soothing behaviors plus group sharing (20 minutes)
- Felt Sense Polyvagal Model of Addiction: Lewis Learning model of Addiction: Brain regions involved in addiction, the role of neuroplasticity and the ‘plastic paradox’ (10 minutes)
- Identifying behaviors that shift autonomic states (3 minutes)
- Four Circle Harm Reduction Practice, Focusing Accountability Partnerships (10 minutes)
- Examples of Body Cards and Process Recordings (5 minutes)
Healing Deep Divides with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model
with Jan Winhall
Learning Objectives
Session 1: Introduction to the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model
- Name the seven states of the Autonomic Nervous System in the FSPM.
- Identify the Polyvagal Informed six steps of Focusing
- Identify two embodied processes of interoception and neuroception.
Session 2: Applying the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model
- Explain the four styles of attachment as they relate to polyvagal theory.
- Explain the concept of blended states, and the difference between Fun/Fired Up and Fight/Flight.
- Identify two behaviors that shift autonomic states.
For intermediate mental health professionals including Psychologists, Social Workers, LPCs, and LMFTs.
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