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Join me LIVE on Zoom each month as I interview guests who contribute to our understanding about trauma and addiction. Our group is also on the Polyvagal Institute online community space. Register for the events listed there and join the network and discussions. And/or register on the upcoming event pages linked below. Free to join, all welcome!
Join our group on thePVI (Polyvagal Institute) Online Community Space for updates and discussion.
Join me LIVE on Zoom each month as I interview guests who contribute to our understanding about trauma and addiction. The Felt Sense Polyvagal Approach to Trauma & Addiction Group is a place for you to explore with others, through a polyvagal lens, the experiences of trauma and addiction. We are focusing on understanding addiction through the lens of the nervous system, as an adaptive response to maladaptive environments. Our group is growing in leaps and bounds indicating a hunger for change, for the kind of transformative change that polyvagal theory brings us. The group interacts online as part of thePVI (Polyvagal Institute) Online Community Space. Once a month the group meets live on Zoom for an hour of exploration and discussion with a guest presenter, in what we now call the Embodied Dialogue Series.
Free to join the group, all welcome!
PVI Community Member Guidelines
- We are cultivating cues of safety, so please be supportive.
- Encourage and support your colleagues – Remember criticism, cynicism, advice, or judgment may be signs of threat.
- Be courteous and assume the best intentions – respect all opinions, no hate speech.
- Share generously – Your stories and experiences may be what another person needs to hear today to solve a problem or seize an opportunity.
- Be constructive – We’re here to push each other forward and lift each other.
- Find ways to help each other find and create cues of safety and co-regulation, reframe challenges, and stay curious.
- Advertising, solicitation, personal or company promotion is not permitted. Those who don’t comply with the guidelines will be requested to leave the app.
Upcoming in the Embodied Dialogue Series via Zoom
Please be aware that by participating in these community meetups via Zoom, your image and name may appear online, including in replay recordings. Meetup events are livestreamed to social media channels.
‘Somatic Practices: A Doorway to Embodiment and Trauma Healing’ with Kristen Toth
Thursday 12pm-1pm ET on April 24, 2025
While simple body-based techniques can sometimes offer a quick fix to help us calm down, Kristen Toth, somatic educator and coach, believes strongly…
‘Ask Us Anything’ with Stephen Porges
How lucky are we to have one hour with Dr. Stephen Porges, the creator of Polyvagal theory? In this Ask Us Anything Dialogue we invite you to…
Polyvagal Theory Meets 12 Steps
What can the Twelve Steps learn from Polyvagal Theory’s focus on physiological triggers and trauma? How can Polyvagal-informed approaches benefit from the long-standing community and spiritual support of Twelve-step…
‘Guy Macpherson, PhD: Life, Work, and the Guest Host Series’ with Guy Macpherson
With years of experience through The Trauma Therapist Project and The Trauma Therapist Podcast, Guy Macpherson has made it his mission to connect clinicians and therapists with valuable resources…
‘Healing Together: Global Grief Perspectives’ with Julia Samuel
Join us for an engaging discussion with renowned grief expert Julia Samuel as we examine grief in response to global trauma. In a world increasingly marked by deep divides…
‘There’s No Therapy Without Saftey’ with Trevor Rocca
Creating a safe environment is crucial for effective therapy, as it allows individuals to express themselves openly and engage in the healing process without fear of judgment or harm.…
‘The Polyvagal Parent’ with George Thompson
Understanding the link between parent-child bonding and Porges’ polyvagal neuroscience of safety, threat, and connection can guide parents toward opportunities to deepen the parent-child bond, which in turn provides…
‘Therapeutic Presence & Polyvagal Theory’ with Shari Geller
Therapeutic presence (TP) is a way of being that optimises the doing and techniques of therapy. Presence includes a balance between attunement with clients as well as with oneself.…
‘Addiction Treatment Update Requirements in 2024 and Beyond!’ with Lou Lebentz
Some of us are fully on board with Polyvagal Theory and ways of framing addiction through the trauma and Polyvagal Lens. However there are still many models of…
‘Sharing Our Collective Wisdom: A Call to Action’ with Ruth Lanius, Elspeth Bradley and Jan Winhall
My friend Elspeth Bradley and I recently spent an afternoon with Ruth Lanius and we had such a wonderful time exploring our shared journeys! Some themes emerged that are…
‘Trauma and Addiction’ with Janina Fisher
Traumatic experiences leave individuals with a dysregulated nervous system, biased neuroception, and a sensitivity to trauma-related triggers. They feel overwhelmed and they impulsively turn to drugs, alcohol, food and…
‘FSPM and the Four Circles’ with Travis Goodman
The Felt Sense Polyvagal Model™ (FSPM™) teaches people how to emotionally regulate by connecting with two powerful embodied processes: interoception, felt sensing, and neuroception, rewiring dysregulated autonomic states.The Four…
‘Microtraumas contributing to the Children’s Mental Health Epidemic’ with BG Mancini
Food, sensory input, digestive health, lack of exercise, and diminished parental availability can influence children’s brain development, impacting children’s external behavior and ability to deeply connect.Interoceptive cues of…
‘Applied Polyvagal Theory in Yoga’ with Arielle Schwartz
Dr. Arielle Schwartz, author of seven books on trauma recovery including Applied Polyvagal Theory in Yoga and Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma, will discuss the science behind vagus nerve stimulation…
‘The Importance of Embodying Emotion in All Therapies’ with Raja Selvam
Research in cognitive and affective neuroscience in the past twenty five years has clearly established the importance of embodying emotions for improving outcomes and treatment times in all therapeutic…
‘IFS and Compassion for Addictive Processes’ with Cece Sykes
Clients with addictive process issues too often feel cast adrift from general therapy. Yet sending off clients to ‘get treatment’ in order to be ‘ready’…
‘The Restoration of the Hijacked Self’ with Ruth Lanius
“The compulsion to repeat the past through traumatic re-enactments or engaging in reckless behaviours is frequently one of the few ways that allows traumatized individuals to ‘feel alive’. It…
‘Integrative Harm Reduction Psychotherapy’ with Andrew Tatarsky
“I began working as a counselor in the addiction treatment field when the disease concept abstinence-only model was the only acceptable approach; anything else was considered blasphemy. Over those…
‘Mindfulness in Early Addiction Recovery’ with Linda Thai
Sensory Processing Disorder and Sensory Processing differences are a significant risk factor for addiction. Studies show that children with sensory challenges can struggle with social anxiety and social…
‘Why Addiction isn’t a Disease’ with Marc Lewis
In this interview, Marc will share his own journey of addiction and how he developed the learning model over many years of study. As Marc’s career has evolved over…
Jan Winhall, M.S.W. 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 all three levels leads students to become Felt Sense Polyvagal Model Facilitators. Her new book, 20 Embodied Practices for Healing Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model, published by Norton, is available for preorder and out in March 2025. 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.