User-Friendly and Accessible Explanations for Non-Scientists
- Understanding the autonomic nervous system
- The vagus nerve and how your nervous system reacts to social factors
- The complexities of fight/flight/freeze response
- Neuroception and co-regulation
- Rest and digest – the state of social engagement
Nervous System Change and Balance Explained
- Learn how neurologically-based conditions are treatable
- Foundations for using “neurorehabilitation”
- Train the nervous system for better coping
- Review the science, research and limitations behind neuroplasticity
- Why is this relevant to your clinical practice?
- Help clients cope using Dan Siegel’s
- Window of Tolerance
- Recognize autonomic states of clients
- Hyper-arousal and hypo-arousal
- How overlooking hypo-arousal in clients impacts treatment
- Therapeutic presence
- Create a space of co-regulation - body, face, tone, and breath
- Visual interventions: Scanning for safety
- Auditory interventions: Safe & Sound protocol
- Tactile interventions
- Movement to put stress to the use nature intended
- Imagined movement: Running Faster than the Tiger
- Diaphragmatic breathing and the vagus nerve
- Non-threatening breath exercises to control hyperventilation
- Muscle tension and the vagus nerve
- Research, treatment risks and limitations


