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22.01.2022 Deb Dana reading Benevolence - a 3 minute treat! - close your eyes and take in her voice and Self /ventral vagal energy in service of healing

16.01.2022 Online Workshop over 3 days in October 2020 with Einat Avni Bronstein, Israeli IFS Trainer currently teaching the Level 1, and most recently the hybrid live/online Level 2. This workshop is for those who have at least basic IFS knowledge and skills, and are ready for intermediate level of instruction. Only 35 participants, and lots of individual/self/dyad work offered (come to 'learn by doing' using the breakout groups of zoom). More information and limited earlybird ticketing until mid-Sept or sold out - https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ifs-and-legacy-burdens-onli

15.01.2022 If you missed this 60min free webinar with Deb Dana speaking about Polyvagal Theory and its application to therapeutic work you can use the link here to see it in replay and for free. Note this will ask you to register and we can then send along details of the proposed Foundation trainings in 2020-21, to be offered at times suitable to Australian-New Zealand times (GMT+10). Topic: Polyvagal Theory Overview and Deb Dana's Rhythm of Regulation Foundation Trainings 2020-21 (30 h...ours) Lecture starts 6 minutes into this Meeting Recording: https://zoom.us//ueNlDIzwsVxOU4X19UjBAK07L8P6aaa80SVN8_cOy - and if you have trouble, do try an new incognito window with this link Access Password: DDANA5AP20

15.01.2022 EARLY BIRD TICKETS RUNNING OUT THIS WEDNESDAY Deb Dana will offer the first series of the Foundations workshop online from June-October 2020, ahead of the Foundation II workshop (each of these workshops is a five day/30 hour module) proposed in August 2021 to be held live at the Mantra Mooloolaba. In 2022 the Advanced Clinical Practice workshop (2 x five day/30 hour module workshops some months apart with consultation and video documentation) will lead to a certificate as a P...olyvagal Informed Practitioner for those completing in 2022. This will be the inaugural offering of this program in the Southern hemisphere and the South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand regions, and will be running at times and days suitable to our part of the world. See the ticketing page, as well as access the FREE 60minute webinar and handout, and to join the email list for early news of upcoming training events. https://mailchi.mp/ce76b14176e8/debdanapvt2020

12.01.2022 FREE WEBINAR WITH DEB DANA SUNDAY 5th APRIL 2020 Deb Dana LCSW (Trauma informed and IFS trained) is offering a FREE WEBINAR on Polyvagal Theory and her Rhythm of Regulation approach on Sunday 5th April from 7:30-8:30PM AEST (note time shift on morning of 5th April!!) Sydney/Melb timezone. Register in advance for this one-hour zoom webinar at:... https://tinyurl.com/debdana5april20 After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. Please note places will be limited, so you must register ASAP to secure a place! PRESENTER/TRAINER DEB DANA, LCSW, specializes in treating complex traumatic stress and lectures internationally on the ways Polyvagal Theory informs clinical interactions with trauma survivors. She is the Coordinator of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium in the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University and the developer of the Rhythm of Regulation clinical training series. She is trained in Internal Family Systems and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and completed the Certificate Program in Traumatic Stress Studies at the Trauma Center. Deb is the author of The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy (Norton, 2018) and co-editor with Stephen Porges, of Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory (Norton, 2018). When: April 5th, 2020 07:30 PM Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney Topic: Polyvagal Theory and Deb Danas Rhythm of Regulation

12.01.2022 How to Use the Polyvagal Ladder (High quality PDF available: traumageek.squarespace.com) Cross-platform shareable version: https://medium.com//how-to-use-the-polyvagal-ladder-c68835 Patron supporters get these graphics and more at www.patreon.com/TraumaGeek

11.01.2022 Deb Dana reading Benevolence - a treat! - close your eyes and take in her voice and Self /ventral vagal energy in service of healing

11.01.2022 The US has a notion of effort, of optimism. You roll up your sleeves, you get to work, every problem has a solution. I think my work is American because of how ...accessible I aim for it to be. It is non-American in that it doesn’t offer a solution. It tells you that the problems of desire in modern love are a paradox that you manage, and not a problem that you solve; it doesn’t think that every existential dilemma has an answer; it says that sometimes you will have to tolerate the ambiguity. - From my recent conversation with J Oliver Conroy for The Guardian

10.01.2022 We ended the first week of Online Level 1 Training here in Australia & New Zealand today. Our group of 32 has a great range of backgrounds, and include a handful of folk from Aotearoa as well as the third (western) island of Australia Much appreciation to our splendid PAs and tele-trainer Einat Bronstein who is working night-shift from Israel to provide us great teaching and demonstrations of the IFS model and Self energy. See the wordclouds here for the feeling in the room at the end of the first and last days, a verbal picture of the sense and themes emerging in the room. If you are interested in workshops or further information on enrolling please contact DM or email.

09.01.2022 This is a core experience of re-homing yourself, moving from action towards or away, or collapse, towards connection. Thanks to Matt Licata for the words, Sasin Tipchai for the photo.

09.01.2022 For anyone who'd like to understand a bit more about their autonomic nervous system and stress responses, I created this little graphic. Our nervous system is c...onstantly scanning the environment for signs of safety and danger, with the aim of setting responses in motion to keep us safe (alive!). When we are sensing safety, we are there in the centre, feeling calm and connected. Our ventral vagal nerve complex, which is responsible for social engagement, is switched on. The ventral vagal also acts as a kind of container for the other branches of the nervous system (sympathetic and dorsal vagal), helping to keep us on track with a gentle up and down rhythm (homeostasis). Sometimes we’ll be more active, like when we're playing, dancing, or vacuuming. These things take a bit of activation from the sympathetic nervous system, to give us the energy to move. Other times, we'll be more still, like when we are cuddling, relaxing, resting or meditating, and these things involve a little bit of activation of the dorsal vagal nerve complex so that we can remain still. But all the while, when our ventral vagal is activated, we're feeling safe, we're feeling good, like "we've got this". When our amydgala unconsciously perceives a threat (via "neuroception") in our environment (e.g. an alarm going off), relationships (e.g. our child crying, our partner snapping at us), or internally (e.g. a worrying thought, an uncomfortable sensation) our sympathetic nervous system automatically becomes activated. It triggers a release of adrenaline and cortisol, and we feel the energy in our body rising, preparing us for movement (mobilization), in an attempt to keep us safe from the perceived threat. We may experience an urge to lash out verbally or physically to confront the threat (fight). Or we might be compelled to use that energy to run away from the threat, escaping from the situation (flight). Either way, the situation will feel urgent, like we need to resolve it immediately. If these responses don't help to resolve the threat, our nervous system can have so much sympathetic activation that it is overwhelming, and our dorsal vagal nerve complex will kick in to shut it down. Its purpose is to make us more still (immobilized) in an attempt to help us survive the threat, and then allow us to get back to fighting or fleeing. We might fawn, where our self expression will be toned down. We might unconsciously do or say things that are not true to ourselves, in order to make us appear less threatening to the aggressor, and therefore more safe. And if that doesn't work, we might go into freeze, where we still have quite a lot of sympathetic activation, but our movement is very limited. At the very least, in this state we will be numb, no longer feeling the emotional or physical pain of an attack. Finally, if the dorsal vagal is jammed on with no sympathetic activation, we can collapse or flop, which is an attempt to keep us safe by feigning death. We are not designed to stay in any of these stress responses for very long. Ideally, once the danger has passed, our nervous system returns (back along the spiral) to a safe state fairly quickly. Those of us who have experienced chronic stress or trauma are more prone both to sensing threat and reaching the point of overwhelm. We also tend to get stuck in the different protective states. The further we get in the stress response (the spiral outwards), the further away we become from feeling connected to our body and our authentic self. We can become so mobilized that we are out of control, or so immobilized that we dissociate or collapse. I've found that just tracking where we are in the spiral throughout our day can be helpful. Knowing that these states happen unconsciously and automatically in the service of helping us to survive, rather than by choice, can also help us to feel more compassion for ourselves (and others). What can help even more is to get intimate with our own nervous system, to explore what triggers us into these protective states and what resources can help us to return to a sense safety, and to keep building the muscle that brings us back to our centre. These are some of the things that Angela Hill of Kinnect and I will be covering in our program, Rewire Through Regulation and Repair, while offering a safe and supportive environment in which to practice together. We'll be running our next round in October 2020, and you can find more information and sign up to be notified of future rounds on our website rewireforparenting.com. The information presented is based on Stephen Porges' Polyvagal Theory, and is my take on Deb Dana's "Polyvagal Ladder". However, Fawn is not an explicitly recognised state in Porges' work.

09.01.2022 https://www.internalfamilysystemstrainingaustralia.com.au//

07.01.2022 From the talented Couch Choir folk in Brisbane - Heres to feeling Happy Together even though we are apart. Thanks to these 3222 singing strangers from 48 countries for sharing their voices and a slice of their lives with us. Every single submission was included in this video because singing belongs to EVERYBODY. All parts are welcome (and most are singing here, including some animals too!!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGbSoDO1WSE

07.01.2022 The Mind-Beyond Institute comprises practitioners and theorists (clinicians, teachers, subject matter experts) bringing their lifelong exploration and competence in a variety of systemic-experiential approaches for teaching and amplifying healing, elaboration and adult development. The staff and faculty will offer teaching, practice and share knowledge in a variety of modes - in person, online and remote learning in structured and emergent environments. Topics & Influences i...nclude - - Whole of life (the arc towards complexity, whole-ordering and intricacy) - Child and Adult Development (bio-psycho-social aptness to environmental and genetic locations) - Body Oriented/Somatic Approaches (including Porge's Polyvagal theory, Panksepp's Affective Neurobiology, and more) - Wholeness and Trauma (including Ecker's Memory Reconsolidation Processing, Bowen's Trans-Generational Inheritances, Schwartz's IFS Unburdening, Boszormenyi-Nagy's Ledgers, and more) - Adult development and Sensemaking (Hellinger's Constellations, Thomas Hubl & Stephen Busby's emergent we-spaces , Kegan & Lahey, Grubb Institute's Connection to Source and others) Dreamwork (collective, group and individual psychic expression to co-regulate the irreducible - Gendlin, Ullman, Kalsched, Reed, Jung...) Founder and Director Simon dOrsogna is an individual and family therapist, clinical trainer and facilitator based in Melbourne. He provides psychotherapy, process consultancy, supervision and adult developmental coaching. He specializes in treating depression and anxiety, trauma, relationship issues, and assisting life transitions. As an organiser of professional development and adult learning programs since 2002 Simon invites international guests and local specialists to present on issues and topics relevant to mental health and education's learning edges. Simon is the US Coherence Psychology Institute's Associate Instructor as well as the IFS Institute's International partner for Australia and New Zealand. He is a Level 3 IFS practitioner with training specializations working with couples and working with survivors of trauma. He has presented at the US annual IFS Conference as well as in Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong and across Australia and New Zealand. He completed his Clinical Masters in Systemic Family Therapy at Bouverie Centre, La Trobe University, and continues studying the late David Grove's unique therapeutic approach to 'Clean' language and space. He facilitates experiential learning events in Australia and the region; Simon has facilitated and arranged more than 220 days of Internal Family Systems trainings and workshops since 2015, along with initiating and leading the trainings of Coherence Therapy, Kegan's Adult Developmental Theory, Internal Family Systems, and Polyvagal Informed Therapies in the Australian region since 2011. Image - Topsy Pula (painting)

07.01.2022 Fantastic PD opportunity: A Morning with Stephen Porges, PhD. The Emergence of a Polyvagal-Informed Therapy: Harnessing Neuroception of Safety in Clinical Treatment. Friday 18th September. https://www.psychology.org.au/Event/21728?view=true

06.01.2022 Here is Shelle reading her welcome to the IFS Introductory Workshop - as well as 'Dadirri' from Mirian Rose Ungamarr (we spoke about this at the last Poly Vagal Foundations workshop session.

04.01.2022 From the talented Couch Choir folk in Brisbane - Here’s to feeling Happy Together even though we are apart. Thanks to these 3222 singing strangers from 48 countries for sharing their voices and a slice of their lives with us. Every single submission was included in this video because singing belongs to EVERYBODY. All parts are welcome (and most are singing here, including some animals too!!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGbSoDO1WSE

02.01.2022 Immerse yourself in the Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) model of psychotherapy. Learn the basics of the IFS approach from the ground up. The focus in this series is on understanding the approach, model and techniques. Wednesday 28th October 2020 from 6:30pm - 8:00pm WEBINAR ATTEND JUST THE STAND-ALONE WEBINAR, OR CONTINUE WITH THE WEEKLY INTRODUCTION WORKSHOPS (4x90min total) https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ifs-model-online-introducti

02.01.2022 The IFS perspective is that any part in the system can be carrying legacy influences that impact its role and functioning. There are unique legacy influences that we acquired from our families, and other legacies that are shared more widely - the result of our shared history, cultural codes, ways of upbringing, system of education, ethnicity, gender and so on. They can be visible and obvious, or hidden and unaware. Acknowledging both the pain and the beauty of our heritage brings healing and clarity to our inner and outer systems.

01.01.2022 Responding to the query ab Vagal tone - lovely summary from the Trauma Geek. See her page for more.

01.01.2022 https://www.ahd.com.sg//153-intro-to-internal-family-syste