04/02/2022
The “Window of Tolerance” is a model that I use very often in my work with clients, to provide an explanation for many common experiences such as, triggers, depression, anxiety, and the impacts of stress. The Window of Tolerance was originally developed by Dr. Dan Siegel (1999), and has been adapted many times by other trauma researchers and therapists since.
This model describes what happens when provides a way to understand how we organize and manage incoming information and what happens when it becomes unmanageable; another way to understand our nervous system responses to our environment and our lives.��Below is a 5 minute clip about my explanation about the Window of Tolerance, and how hyperaroused and hypoaroused states are felt in the body. This clip is from my 1-hour webinar, “Regulating Your Nervous System”, which provides:
* Comprehensive psycho-education about the neurobiology and neurophysiology of the nervous system, using the frameworks of Polyvagal Theory, the Triune Brain, and Window of Tolerance�
* An understanding of neurobiology to explain how past trauma, ongoing stress and uncertainty, and oppression impacts the nervous system’s optimal functioning, resulting in the diminished ability to function and cope.�
* Psycho-education about the importance of supporting the nervous system through stimulating the Vagus Nerve and other body based practices, and through self-care and self-nurturing practices, ensuring the ‘Window’ is wide as possible – increasing our capacity, and helping our amygdala’s interpret incoming information accurately and without being overwhelmed by it, and, �
* Strategies to regulate hyperarousal (activated) and hypoarousal (shut down) states -- supporting the nervous system to reinstate balance.�
This webinar will provide a better understanding of the neurobiology of the nervous system and the impacts of trauma on the nervous system, and provide you with psycho-education about the Window of Tolerance, Triune Brain and Polyvagal Theory’s understanding of the physiological responses to stress, as well as suggestions for helping you regulate their nervous system, and respond to activated and shut down states.
This webinar contains information that can be helpful to anyone, especially today, where we are continuing to live through a global pandemic, and experiencing increasing political unrest.
Link in bio to watch the full webinar!
