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Polyvagal Theory for Children: Practical Application to Build Safety, Create Attachment & Develop Connection

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Do you know therapists who seem to have “the magic touch” when it comes to getting children to trust and connect with them? What if there are actual behaviors that you can learn and incorporate into your way of being with children that can solicit openness, relaxation and trust? Join Dafna Lender, LCSW, for this compelling session, as she walks you through the complexities of using polyvagal theory with your young clients. Using your own social engagement system and tuning into the child’s physiological state you’ll learn: 

  • Regulating and calming techniques for more curiosity, openness & connection 
  • How sending safety messages to brains of mistrusting kids will make them more open to new relational experiences  
  • To use voice, rhythm, facial expressions and touch to elicit trust 
  • To surprise the brain of a defensive child with novel responses to grab attention, interrupt their automatic defensiveness, and generate curiosity 
  • Exercises and activities to make shut down, guarded or angry clients feel more relaxed, open and ready to connect 

Here's What You'll Learn


  • Harnessing your Social Engagement System 
  • How to Reset when Compromised by Stress and Trauma 
  • Elicit Trust - Voice, Rhythm, Racial Expressions, Touch 
  • Create and maintain an open facial expression with defensive children 
  • Strategies to incorporate safe touch 
  • Playfulness and Paradox to Suspend Defensiveness 
  • Surprise the brain of a defensive child with novel responses 
  • Movement and Breathing Exercises to Create Connection 
  • Rhythmic activities for maintaining regulation 
  • Counteracting shut down, guarded or angry behavior (responses) 

Everything You're Getting


  • More than 1 hour of video content
  • CE information to come
  • Handouts and resources

Meet Your Experts


Dafna Lender, LCSW

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Dafna Lender, LCSW, is an international trainer and supervisor for practitioners who work with children and families. She is a certified trainer and supervisor/consultant in both Theraplay and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) and an EMDR therapist. Dafna’s expertise is drawn from 25 years of working with families with attachment in many settings: at-risk after school programs, therapeutic foster care, in-home crisis stabilization, residential care and private practice. Dafna’s style, whether as a therapist or teacher, is combining the light-hearted with the profound by bringing a playful, intense and passionate presence to every encounter. Dafna is the author of Integrative Attachment Family Therapy (2023) and co-author of Theraplay® - The Practitioner’s Guide (2020).

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dafna Lender maintains a private practice. She is a published author and receives royalties. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dafna Lender has no relevant non-financial relationships.

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Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
POS058682
Duration:
1 hour, 1 minute
Copyright:
Oct 24, 2021
Format:
Audio and Video

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