THE SCIENCE OF SOCIAL SAFETY -

Navigating the Polyvagal System - simply said …

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A CORTICAL BLEND leads to LIMBIC RESONANCE as we engage with others.

Our capacity for sharing deep emotional states arises from the limbic system.

These states include:

Dopamine circuits support feelings of empathic harmony,
Norepinephrine (adrenaline) circuits support emotional states of fear, worry or anger.

Co-creating with David Keevil’s Vagus Art Map

- Depicting the way we experience the 3 levels of Safety.

Art Map: Polyvagal lens into our internal Systems of Safety developed over millennia.

DAVID KEEVIL’S VAGUS ART MAP . SOURCES: DEB DANA’ ON YOU TUBE AND the PINTEREST site — DAVID KEEVIL’S VAGUS ART MAP . SOURCES: DEB DANA’ ON YOU TUBE AND the PINTEREST site

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. We chose the first phase of upward mobilization in the hierarchy.

“ - First the liberating upward Ventral Blend then required Break to navigate an habitual downward spiral.”

Thank you David and Deb for prompting this rewarding conversation.

Why not join us and imagine your own journey, as you build greater resilience to navigate in our dynamic world?

Join a Social Safety Workout

Reading: Social Safety, Reducing Social Threat

For Schools

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For Individuals

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George M. Slavich (UCLA) says that: The human brain and immune system are principally designed to keep the body biologically safe by continually monitoring and responding to social, physical, and microbial threats in the environment. This neurocognitive and immunologic ability for humans to quickly understand and respond to potentially dangerous social situations is ultimately critical for survival.

Because situations involving social conflict, isolation, devaluation, rejection, and exclusion historically increased risk for physical injury and infection, anticipatory neural–immune reactivity to social threat was likely highly conserved.

When sustained, however, this multilevel biological threat response can increase individuals’ risk for several inflammation-related diseases.

Reference: George M. Slavich, Centre for Psychoneuroimmunology, Psychiatry and Biobehavioural Sciences, UCLA

For Communities

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For Families

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