Description
- A live online group for 2 hours a week commencing Sunday 2nd March 10am-12pm till 6th April 2025 on Zoom (with no breakout rooms!)
- Immerse yourself in learning how to self-regulate via co-regulation in a safe nurturing environment
- Learn to understand and re-set your autonomic nervous system via little but effective shifts in emotional state leading to impactful moments towards self-regulation
- In these sessions you will be guided towards understanding how YOUR individual nervous system responds to triggers but also can feel grounded and present via social engagement which we can actively teach our nervous system to seek out or find within ourselves
- This course will be particularly helpful to those who feel intensely and whose emotional responses may be disproportionate to the event they are reacting to
- The course will involve understanding how our nervous system responds under threat using the Polyvagal Theory* and how we can re-tune, re-set and continually return to a place of grounded safety within ourselves; the self-regulation of emotions
The course
- Six 2 hour sessions whereby as a group (you can participate as little or as much as you wish with your camera on or off – your choice) I will guide you through understanding the Vagus Nerve using the Polyvagal Theory, chunked down into sections including exercises for you to complete in session under my lead, as well as exercises for you to take away and continue to complete upon completion of the course for ongoing self-development
- Your learning will be SPECIFIC TO YOU and not at all generic in anyway
- There will be live interactive questions and even opportunities for discussion surrounding emotion regulation which will most probably be relevant to all in the group and therefore helpful
- The sessions will be recorded and available to you at your convenience
- Techniques for self-regulation involving the Vagus Nerve self-stimulation will be taught and relaxation audio available to you
- A monthly or 2-monthly support group may be created for the duration of the course and upon completion
About Iffat Shafiuddin (she/her)
I am a neurodiverse counsellor and qualified in 1997. In addition I am an Accredited member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
You can find me on the BACP register and I am insured. I hold a certificate in Applied Polyvagal Theory in Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery (30 hours) 2022 and am also a Yoga Teacher.
I have worked within various roles within Special Education Needs and Disabilities (SEND), in Education (Further Education College and Schools, both Primary and Secondary), with the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), Place2Be (Improving Children’s Mental Health in Schools), Your Healthcare (working with children with Autism) within Domestic Violence projects (Women’s Aid) and Cruse Bereavement Care.
I have been counselling both adults and children for over 15 years and have gained specialist experience and expertise in neurodivergence.
Specialisms include:
- ADHD
- Autism Spectrum Condition
- Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA)
- Anxiety
- Trauma
- Identity
The Polyvagal Theory – The Vagus Nerve – (Stephen Porges:2011*) explains how to understand and befriend our internal surveillance system. This system via the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system, searches for cues of social engagement, connection and safety and cues of threat, danger and disconnection which can lead to appreciating and managing our emotions.
This prevents our brains from becoming hijacked and consumed by intense overwhelming feelings aiming to self-regulate via co-regulation for example in this forthcoming group.
This prevents our brains from becoming hijacked and consumed by intense overwhelming feelings aiming to self-regulate via co-regulation for example in this forthcoming group.
You can listen to my guest appearances on Spotify ADHD podcasts here and here and read my contributions to articles related to ADHD in iNews and on ADHD Online
What to Expect
- There is no pressure to talk
- You can choose to share (or not)
- The techniques will be centred around your needs
Feel free to submit an enquiry to find out more.
*Porges SW (2011) The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication and Self-regulation. New York:WW Norton
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