An internationally recognized breathing and movement specialist.
She has been teaching for over 40 years and was a master lecturer at Boston University’s college of Fine Arts. Now, she maintains a private practice in Los Angeles, California, and an online practice internationally.
Mel Pohl, MD, DFASAM is the Senior Medical Consultant to the Pain Recovery Program at The Pointe Malibu Recovery Center
In this conversation:
Mathilde Shisko: Polyvagal-Informed Voice and Performance Coach.
TEDx Speaker Coach
Seth Porges co-author of the book
Our Polyvagal World: How Safety and Trauma Change Us
Links mentioned in the conversation:
Dr. Melanie Chang TED talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLXPi0Jha5o
My TED talk 'Science of the Groove':
https://www.ted.com/talks/adam_gust_science_of_the_groove
Betsy Polatin book 'The Actor's Secret':
My speaker website:
My project- Ethnocentrism in Drum Education:
The Homunculus Model:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortical_homunculus
Get in touch with Adam
@adamgust on the socials Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, LinkedIn
Rebecca Bailey, PhD is a leading family psychologist and equestrian who has become a world-renowned professional teacher, speaker, author, and entrepreneur. She founded the Polyvagal Equine Institute with her two colleagues, Margie McDonald and Jaycee Dugard.
Neuro and physiological safety in relationships and clinical practice and what happens when people don't feel safe.
Courtney is a licensed clinical professional counselor located in downtown Chicago, Illinois, on the homelands of the Council of the Three Fires: the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations, as well as the Miami, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Sac, and Fox tribes. Courtney is the founder of Modern Mind & Heart, a psychotherapy private practice offering individual therapy, training, and clinical and/or organizational consultation.
Courtney assists and facilitates professional training for The Polyvagal Institute and Deb Dana's Rhythm of Regulation Foundations training series. Courtney is also a presenter for PESI, teaching clinicians the basics of creating a trauma-informed practice.
Amy Stenger-Sullivan (she/her/hers) is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor-Supervisor, trainer, and CEO of Rooted Compassion Counseling and Consulting, LLC. As a Certified Trauma Responsive Counselor, Amy understands and applies knowledge of interpersonal neurobiology, Polyvagal Theory, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). Amy is an EMDR Certified Therapist. She specializes in utilizing and teaching about the nervous system to help people move into post-traumatic healing and growth.
In this conversation:
Befriending the nervous system.
Rupture and Repair.
What is Neurodiversity?
Dyslexia.
Different types of Learners.
What is a Ventral Learner?
Debra is the Founder of S’cool Moves and a graduate of the University of Southern Queensland Professional Studies Program. Her dissertation uncovered attributes of successful collaboration between occupational therapists and general education teachers working together in the classroom environment.
She is the author of numerous books and instructional materials integrating neuroscience and neurodevelopmental activities into academics. Her latest additions are two books published by Norton, The Polyvagal Path to Joyful Learning: Transforming Classrooms One Nervous System at a Time and The Polyvagal Backpack: Classroom Activities for Focused, Joyful Learning.
In the Conversation:
Value of rituals and traditions from a Polyvagal lens.
Centering the experience of marginalized communities: what it means to decolonize mental health?
What is the geo-socio-political-cultural framework?
How we can not just “adapt” Western-based approaches but “re-imagine” approaches to mental and emotional well-being from a cultural context.
Dr. Niloufer Merchant, Professor Emeritus at St. Cloud State University
Licensed Psychologist.
Jan Winhall, MSW, FOT is an author, teacher, and psychotherapist. She is an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Social Work, the University of Toronto. She is the director of Focusing on Borden, a psychotherapy and training center. Jan presents internationally on trauma and addiction.
Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model Book
In this conversation, I talked with Dr Lori about the application of educational neuroscience and trauma accommodation framework.
Dr. Lori Desautels has been an Assistant Professor at Butler University since 2016 where she teaches both undergraduate and graduate programs in the College of Education.
Dr. Desautels’ passion is engaging her students through the application of neuroscience as it applies to attachment, regulation, educator brain state, and teaching students and staff about their neuro-anatomy thus integrating mind-brain Teaching
Conversation with Dr Heather Abernathy
Polyvagal informed medical school and practice.
Heather is an anesthesiologist and a medical academic; she is bringing the PVT into how she practices with patients as well as in medical school. Very useful for any medical professional and medical students.
Dr. Abernathy's course on the Polyvagal Institute
https://www.polyvagalinstitute.org/it...
Email:
heather@drheatherabernethy.com
IG:
Michael is an educational partner with Polyvagal Institute and Stephen W. Porges, Ph.D. (originator of Polyvagal Theory) leading the development and delivery of a Polyvagal-informed Certificate for Health, Wellness & Performance Coaches accredited by the National Board for Health & Wellness Coaches.
Mona Delahooke, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist with over 30 years of experience caring for children and their families.
Author
Beyond Behaviour
Brain-Body Parenting
Stephen W. Porges, Ph.D. is a Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University where he is the founding director of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium.
He is the author of The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-regulation (Norton, 2011), The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe, (Norton, 2017), co-editor of Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory: The Emergence of Polyvagal-Informed Therapies (Norton, 2018) and author of Polyvagal Safety: Attachment, Communication, Self-Regulation (Norton 2021). Dr. Porges is the creator of a music-based intervention, the Safe and Sound Protocol ™ (SSP), which is used by therapists to improve social engagement, language processing, and state regulation, as well as to reduce hearing sensitivities.
https://integratedlistening.com/products/ssp-safe-sound-protocol/
Conversation on polyvagal informed practice in clinical practice
Deb Dana, LCSW, is a clinician, consultant, author and speaker specializing in complex trauma. Her work is focused on using the lens of Polyvagal Theory to understand and resolve the impact of trauma in our lives.
https://www.rhythmofregulation.com/
Author of The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation
Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory
Hello and welcome to the Human Connection podcast - (Polyvagal Informed Conversations) edition. I am your host Manal Aldabbagh and
This podcast is a quest to understand ourselves and our relationships through the lens of our human connection: the nervous system. Started as conversations with Dr. Stephen Porges, the developer of The polyvagal Theory, and Deb Dana, the godmother of the theory, who presented it in concepts and language I can understand. What followed are a series of conversations with clinicians, coaches and individuals who found the polyvagal theory, and it informed their work and mission in life.
Through the lens of the nervous system, I find the world, especially relationships, easier to understand and enables me to embody compassion towards others. I consider these conversations my small contribution to bringing awareness to the importance of understanding and, as Deb says beautifully, "befriending our nervous system". I hope you enjoy these conversations as much as I did. Please share them with others and reach out if you want to continue this conversation, I would love to hear from you, and maybe we can record it for others.