Join Dafna as she presents practical applications for building safety and connection with children. This FREE webinar series is designed for parents, caregivers, educators and anyone seeking to create meaningful relationships with children of all ages.
The Polyvagal Theory teaches us to focus on enhancing a child’s sense of safety and connection through the parent-child relationship.
The Polyvagal Theory can help parents understand a child’s behavior from the point of view of the nervous system rather than as purposeful misbehavior. By understanding the behaviors from this nervous system perspective, parents can better understand and respond to otherwise baffling behaviors such as children acting chaotic or defiant, or shut-down and disconnected.
Introduction to Polyvagal Parenting: Our autonomic nervous system as parents and children
In this session we will explore everyday examples of safety and connection (ventral), dysregulation (sympathetic/dorsal) and repair (return to ventral). We will learn how our nervous system influences our children and vice versa, and discuss ways to get yourself into a calm and open state (ventral) so you can influence your child in a positive way.
Understanding our vagus nerve: Becoming familiar with our polyvagal responses to our child
In this session we will examine how we act when things are going well, and where we go when we are stressed or shut down with our child. What does our personal history have to do with our autonomic responses? How can we begin to move towards ventral if we are frequently in sympathetic/dorsal? In this session we will learn exercises for self-compassion and reset.
Harnessing YOUR social engagement system to increase connection, safety and cooperation with your child
In this session we will learn exercises that help you to notice what your own social engagement system is communicating. We will explore ways to improve your own social engagement system signals so that your child begins to feel more relaxed and cooperative. We will discuss ways to provide leadership in your relationship with your child through movement, rhythm, and engagement so that a child will feel safe.
How to co-regulate with a child to promote connection and collaboration
In this session we will explore movement and breathing exercises to create connection, activities to promote attachment, rhythmic activities for maintaining regulation, and techniques for counteracting shut down, guarded or angry behaviors.
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