Our Social Safety Systems Canvas:-
Depicting the 3 Levels of Safety we navigate daily in a Lockdown world.
Art Map: Polyvagal lens into Systems of Safety developed over millennia.
David Keevil’s Vagus Art Map . Sources: Deb Dana’ on You Tube and Pin interest
The back story: Participants in a SheTHORT Workshop respond strongly to David’s image but a few identified so strongly with the figure’s state of immobilization and that it reinforced their ‘stuck’ state.
After a rather heated discussion about the role an image could/should play in the way we do a Vagal Dance, we chose to co-develop his concept further in scribing the first phase of upward mobilization in the hierarchy.
“ - First the liberating upward Ventral Blend - Then a Vagal Brake to navigate the habitual downward spiral.”
Further Reading: (See references for more info)
S Porges: (2011) The Poly vagal Theory: Neurophysical
Foundations for Emotions....
D Dana: The Polyvagal Theory In Therapy: Engaging The Rhythm of Regulation (Norton, June 2018)
S Porges and D Dana: Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory: The Emergence of Polyvagal-Informed Therapies (Norton, June 2018)
S Porges and D Dana: Psychotherapy Networker How to Help Our Nervous Systems During a Pandemic...Finding Ventral Vagal for Our Clients and Ourselves
S Kosslyn: (2011) Top Brain Bottom Brain
And others.
See References for more on Social Safety.
Why not join us in this powerful conversation and design your own visual Vagal Blend?
We are hosting these online or in groups of 3 or 5 people.