The Felt Sense Polyvagal Model: New Directions in Trauma and Addiction Treatment

The Felt Sense Polyvagal Model: New Directions in Trauma and Addiction Treatment

This webinar introduces key concepts from the book Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model (Routledge, 2021). This session challenges the traditional top-down approaches to trauma and addiction, advocating for a transformative, body-centered appraoch. The Felt Sense Polyvagal Model (FSPM) integrates Gendlin’s Felt Sense with Porges' Polyvagal Theory, offering practitioners a new way to engage with the embodied processes of interoception (felt sense) and neuroception (polyvagal response). During this webinar, you'll gain insights into how the FSPM can revolutionize your practice by providing a holistic, bottom-up/top-down framework for treating trauma and addiction. The session will include a case example to demonstrate the model's application in real-world scenarios. Additionally, you’ll be introduced to The Embodied Assessment and Treatment Tool (EATT)™, equipping you with the skills to conduct somatic assessments and enhance your therapeutic interventions.

This webinar is free for all to attend!

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Presented by the Ontario Association of Social Workers and Jan Winhall, MSW, PIFOT

Jan Winhall, MSW, PIFOT is an author, teacher and seasoned trauma and addiction psychotherapist. She is an Educational Partner 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.  Her new book 20 Embodied Practices for Healing Trauma and Addiction: Using the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model, (Norton) is due out 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. You can reach her at janwinhall.com.  

The Ontario Association of Social Workers (oasw.org) is the voice of the social work profession in Ontario. It is a voluntary, bilingual, non-profit association representing 9,500+ social workers. OASW works to actively speak on behalf of social workers on issues of interest to the profession and advocates for the improvement of social policies and programs directly affecting social work practice and client groups served. OASW also offers high-quality, free or low-cost professional development opportunities to social workers and other health and mental health care providers through our OASW Learning Centre (olc.oasw.org).