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Day 1: Understanding the Nervous System
Peter A. Levine, PhD: Trauma and the Nervous System: Foundations for Safety, Regulation, and Healing
Arielle Schwartz, PhD: Nervous System Literacy in Therapy: Foundations for Healing and Resilience
Linda Thai, MSW, LMSW: Mapping the Nervous System: Understanding Survival Responses and the Path to Regulation (replay)
Rick Hanson, PhD: Neuroplasticity, Resilience, and The Nervous System
Jordan Quaglia, PhD: What is Nervous System Regulation? Bridging Neuroscience and Practice
Day 2: Clinical Tools & Practices for Regulation
Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, MFT: Attunement and Regulation in Virtual Therapy: Tracking the Nervous System Online
Pat Ogden, PhD: Regulation and Resilience: Exploring the Sensorimotor Approach to Developing Resources
Chinwé Williams, PhD: Regulating from Within: Nervous System Tools for Therapists and Clients
Bonnie Badenoch, PhD: Co-Regulation as Treatment: How Safety and Attunement Rewire the Nervous System
Day 3: Nervous System Resilience & Integration
David Treleaven, PhD: Broadening the Window of Tolerance for Resilience and Healing
Bessel van der Kolk, MD and Licia Sky: Synchrony and Safety: Embodied Presence in Trauma Healing
Raymond Rodriguez, Rev., MSW, LCSW: Coping with Toxic Stress in Difficult Times: Nervous System Regulation & Resilience
Jordan Quaglia, PhD: Compassion as Container and Compass: Navigating Nervous System Regulation Through Care

Nervous System Literacy in Therapy: Foundations for Healing and Resilience

Arielle Schwartz, PhD

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What you'll learn

  • Understand the big-picture importance of nervous system literacy and why regulation is central to effective healing and therapy outcomes
  • Recognize what regulation looks like in real time through practices like vagal toning and breathwork
  • Explore how building regulation skills opens pathways to safety, resilience, and post-traumatic growth—supporting clients and therapists to move from survival toward thriving

About the speakers

Arielle Schwartz, PhD

Arielle Schwartz, PhD, CCTP-II, EMDR-C, E-RYT, is a licensed psychologist, certified complex trauma professional, EMDR Consultant, and Kripalu yoga teacher. She is an internationally sought-out speaker and a leading voice in the field of trauma recovery. She is the author of eight books including The Complex PTSD Workbook, EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology, The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook, Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma, and Applied Polyvagal Theory in Yoga. She earned her doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Fielding Graduate University and holds a Master’s degree in Somatic Psychology through Naropa University. As an internationally sought out teacher, she works in collaboration with world renowned institutions including the Polyvagal Institute, Psychotherapy Networker, PESI, Sounds True, The Shift Network, The Embody Lab, Yoga International, YogaUOnline, and the Cambridge Health Alliance. As the founder of the Center for Resilience Informed Therapy, Dr. Schwartz offers an integrative, mind-body approach to trauma treatment that includes relational therapy, somatic psychology, EMDR Therapy, parts-work therapy, and therapeutic yoga. She specializes in applied polyvagal theory which focuses on addressing imbalances within the autonomic nervous system that underlie most mental and physical health conditions. Dr. Schwartz provides informational mental health and wellness updates through her writing, public speaking, social media presence, and blog. She believes that the journey of trauma recovery is an awakening of the spiritual heart.

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24 Responses

  1. What a gem of a human, so knowledgable and so compassionate, wish we had more of her on this planet! Very insightful talk, thank you

    1. I completely agree, Nina. What an inspiring person. I felt Arielle’s generosity of spirit and knowledge in how she explained the concepts and gave beautifully clear examples as she went along. Her clients are lucky to be held and supported by such a wonderful human.

  2. Excellent correlation of ANS, ROLE OF Vagus nerve in balancing Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Systems in Healing , Integrating and keeping the Equilibrium, Balance in MIND BODY .Thanks to Dr. STEPHEN PORGESS THEORY about EVOLUTIONARY Limbic Systems that was neglected in understanding of How Trauma affects the Nervous Tissue.
    Thank you for your insight and clarification .

  3. I have heard more than three times about the parasympathetic and sympathetic states, oh and that third one (where I would want to be) so many times and can’t sort them in my head. I’m working with a book I bought by Deb Dana. I am working with the therapist, Sidney, I’m actually very bright, why can I not grasp this concept? Actually have to laugh at myself at this point… It’s an ongoing story and I need to write it out…but it is stuck

  4. That was very helpful to know that I’m not broken and we all have a nervous system and we can help each other to co-regulate.

  5. Arielle – I want to thank you for just “being” the amazingly kind, competent & compassionate “teacher” that you innately are … I have decades of experience w/ “C-PTSD” & an ongoing personal search for some semblance of “peace” before God calls me home, so to speak. Thank you for your demonstration in this talk of that “peace” & giving me the continuing hope that it is indeed still possible. You are a gifted healer & I look forward to joining a program I think I saw somewhere that you are starting online approximately Nov 1st.
    Godspeed & deep gratitude to you & all of your colleagues in this series on nervous system regulation.

  6. Excellent. I work in Education too. Maybe I am taking a detour,but this is so meaningful in many areas. I am wondering how I can tie in this for teachers when assessing students, how they could use it so stuents can demostrate understanding.

  7. Arielle has given such an amazing in-depth outline in a new subject within a video. She is so knowledgeable. Thanking the universe for her expertise and also, the Host lady is also amazing!

  8. Oh how I wish I could sit with you during sessions and absorb even more information and skills. Thank you for sharing this well paced informational nugget. I will be buying your book momentarily.

  9. Thank you Arielle and team! Excellent perspective on Nervous system literacy, flexibiilty and how that promotes humam resilience and well being!

  10. Thank you! Very useful information! And what an inspiring human treasure…. She is so wise, kind and compassionate and even seeing or listening her just completely co-regulates my nervous system 🙂

  11. Thank you Dr. Schwartz! This was so helpful. You lead by example in your presence, tone, facial expressions and movement. I will be using what I have learned in my yoga teaching and counseling practice.

  12. Thank you Arielle, for a profoundly helpful presentation. I will be using your five step practice today 🙂 Your description of vagal tone was so clear and I’m so grateful for your concluding comment, highlighting the importance of finding really good co-regulating relationships. Deep gratitude.

  13. I love Arielle her brilliance and comprehensive teaching skills are so inspiring . Her clients are so very blessed . I’m looking forward to her 6 month immersion class with The Shift Network starting next month and being in her presence for the second time on retreat in South Africa which was magical last year !

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