Course outline and timeline

Class One: Orientation Meeting

Please note, that if you cannot attend the orientation meeting you cannot take the workshop series

60-minute orientation meeting covering:

  • Intros - you, me and the course!

  • What to expect and ideas on how to support yourself during the classes and the course itself

  • What you’ll need - practical tools

  • Safety meeting

    • Community expectations - how to keep yourself and your community safe

    • Communication guidelines

    • Access needs

  • Course and tool outline

  • Q&A

Class Two: Regulation Practices & Brain Science 

  • Co-regulation practice

  • Safety meeting refresher

  • Co-regulation practice

  • Learning:

    • Co-regulation

    • Self-regulation

    • Techniques for both

  • Q&A

Class Three: BrainScience LITE

  • Self-regulation practice

  • Safety meeting refresher

  • Regulation practice

  • Learning:

    • Nervous-system

    • Brain anatomy

    • How the brain impacts our SNS system

    • Polyvagal theory

    • Window of tolerance

  • Q&A

Class Four: Polyvagal Theory and Window of Resilience

  • Self-regulation practice

  • Check-in

  • Safety Meeting

  • Learning

    • ANS Refresher

    • Polyvagal Theory

    • Interoception

    • Window of Resilience

  • Q & A

Break for Integration

  • Take this week off, enjoy time with folks, plants and animals you love

Class Five: Trauma, Privilege and Marginalization

Self-regulation practice

  • Check-in

  • Safety meeting refresher

  • Self-regulation practice

  • Learning

    • Types of trauma

  • Coregulation practice

    • Where we lie in proximity to privilege and systemic marginalization

  • Co-regulation practice

    • Why understanding these truths is important as a wellness practitioner

  • Q&A

Class Six: Choice and Consent

  • Self-regulation practice

  • Safety meeting refresher

  • Regulation practice

  • Learning

    • Choice-based language techniques

    • Ongoing consent

  • Q&A

Class Seven: Boundaries, Beliefs, Capacity, Scope of Practice

  • Self-regulation practice

  • Safety meeting refresher

  • Regulation practice

  • Learning

    • Understanding your own scope of practice

      • Education

      • Experience

      • Practice

      • Beliefs

    • Identifying and acknowledging your physical, mental and emotional capacity

      • Working within those boundaries while growing your edges

    • Professional boundaries

      • What are they?

      • When to set them

      • How to set them

    • Regulation practice

    • Q & A

Class Eight: Money, Trauma, Clients and Us

  • Self-regulation practice

  • Check-in

  • Safety meeting refresher

  • Self-regulation practice

  • Learning

    • What is financial trauma?

    • How does it impact us?

    • The science (and reality) of scarcity and a scarcity mindset

    • Why financial literacy is important but meaningless without historical context

    • Financial disorders

    • Supporting recovery

    • Regulation techniques for financial and wellness professionals and their clients

  • Q&A

Class Ten, Wrapping up

  • Self-regulation practice

  • Safety meeting refresher

  • Closing the circle:

    • Reflections

    • A clear path forward: what are your next steps in terms of education and deepening this learning?

  • Regulation practice

  • Open share

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