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Learning Objectives

• Differentiate interoceptive signaling from conscious interoceptive awareness and identify how difficulty at either level may appear in a clinical presentation.
• Identify at least three sensory or physiological factors that may affect the intensity, salience, or tolerability of internal cues, including sensory load, brain-gut sensory signaling, inflammatory processes, and depleted physiological reserve.
• Explain how addictive and other repetitive behaviors may function as attempts to shift an aversive internal state and identify one implication of this framing for clinical assessment.
• Select at least two trauma-informed clinical adjustments for clients whose access to body-based cues is limited, overwhelming, or inconsistent, including alternatives to open-ended prompts such as "notice what you feel in your body."
• Analyze the criticisms of Polyvagal theory and evaluate its use in clinical practice.

Learning Levels

• Beginner
• Intermediate
• Advanced

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Agenda

Live event Instructor(s)

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  BG Mancini AP, MHSc

  Founder of The Brain & Gut Institute

  BG Mancini, AP, MHSc, is an Advanced Certified Functional Medicine Clinician, Licensed Acupuncture Physician, and Neurodevelopmental Specialist with 30+ years of clinical experience. As founder of The Brain & Gut Institute, she has worked with thousands of patients and trained clinicians worldwide on how physiological states influence regulation, behavior, and healing. Her Brain–Gut–Sensory Axis Framework integrates neuroscience, the microbiome, sensory physiology, and autonomic function to optimize how we feel and interact with the world around us and within us. Her FID model consists of using the Frequency, Intensity and Duration Framework to help individuals and clinicians to understand how Inputs, Response, and Rewiring through MicroResetsTM support building Reserves , resilience and deepened capacity.

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  Jan Winhall, M.S.W., P.I.F.O.T.

  Developer of the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model™ (FSPM)

  Jan Winhall is an author, educator, mindfulness teacher, and trauma and addiction psychotherapist. She trained with Eugene Gendlin in the Focusing Felt Sense tradition for over 30 years, and her work is grounded in mindfulness, embodied awareness, and the healing power of the Felt Sense—a gentle, body-based way of listening inward that supports nervous system regulation, emotional healing, and inner safety. Jan is the developer of the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model™ (FSPM), an integrative approach that combines Polyvagal Theory, Focusing, mindfulness, and somatic psychotherapy. She is an Educational Partner with the Polyvagal Institute and teaches internationally through the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model Institute. She is the author of Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model and 20 Embodied Practices for Healing Trauma and Addiction, hosts the Embodied Dialogue Podcast, and serves as an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Toronto.

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  Jenn Turner, LMHC

  Executive Director of the Center for Trauma and Embodiment (CFTE)

  Jenn Turner, LMHC, is a licensed mental health counselor, educator, yoga teacher, and Executive Director of the Center for Trauma and Embodiment (CFTE). With over 15 years of experience, she co-created Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) and edited Embodied Healing: Survivor and Facilitator Voices from the Practice of Trauma Sensitive Yoga. Jenn leads global training programs in trauma-informed care and hosts the podcast On Trauma and Power, where she explores the intersection of trauma, healing, and power. Her work is dedicated to supporting trauma survivors and fostering safer, more collaborative workplaces worldwide.

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