Section 2

Question 1

The Personal Profile Map

Answer 1

Explores the question “Where am I?”. Clients identify their placement on the autonomic heirarchy. Clients describe their somatic, thinking, and acting landmarks for each state

Question 2

Triggers and Glimmers Map

Answer 2

Helps answer the question “What brought me here?”. Triggers are sympathetic and dorsal vagal provocations, while glimmers are the moments the ventral vagal system lights up.

Question 3

Regulating Resources Map

Answer 3

Answers the question “How do I find my way to ventral vagal regulation?” Explores both individual and interactive regulation and building new regulating pathways

Question 4

Remember

Question 5

How to draw Personal Profile Map

Answer 5

Begin with blank template and colored markers. Have client add choose colored markers that represent that autonomic state. Start with sympathetic section and ask to recall a time when they were in this state. Then go to dorsal. Then fill in ventral vagal, asking them to fill from their core to their skin to create a fully embodied experience

For each state, fill in the section by writing what it feels like, looks like and sounds like. What happens in your body? What do you do? What do you feel? What do you think and say” Ask them to complete the two sentences “I am…” and “The world is …”

Question 6

Remember: A loving connection with an animal and experiences in nature bring ventral vagal safety.

Question 7

Remember: Nearing the end of a session, the question “where are you on your map?” is a reliable gauge for exploring what would be helpful for your client as they transition back into the world

Question 8

Remember: Identification of Triggers is a way to being to move out of the self-critical story of “who I am” into curiosity about “how I respond” and also why.

Question 9

Constructing triggers and glimmers map

Answer 9

Same ladder template but add “glimmers” label to ventral vagal section and “triggers” label to sympathetic and dorsal vagal section.

Question 10

Remember: Considering the ratio of triggers to glimmers is another way to observe responses and note the impact on daily living. Change over time is a measure of movement along the autonomic contiuum of sensitivity to resilience

Question 11

Remember: The capacity to fully experience one’s feelings, particularly when they are intesnse and/or painful, is greatly enhanced by being able to do so together with a supportive, empathic, and emotionally present other

Question 12

Remember: Through the Social Engagement Syste, we use our eyes, our voice, and movement of our face and head to send and receive signals of safety and to reach out for and offer connection.

Question 13

A chronic neuroception of danger in reponse to being connected to others makes using interactive resources difficult. For these clients, the first interactive regulation resource may simply be sitting in a place where people are present and feeling their presence from a safe distance.

Question 14

What is a dorsal vagal response state and how to recover from this state?

Answer 14

It is a state where the nervous system has entered a state of conversavation of energy, a genetle return of energy is needed. It can’t be too big of a shift or it will feel dangerous.

Question 15

What is a sympathetic mobilization response state and how to recover from this state?

Answer 15

A state where too much energy is flooding the system. To move from here, the resource has to bring a way to safely discharge energy.

Question 16

Remember