PVI Meet Up: Using Felt Sense Body Cards to Map Your Parts & Tell Your Story - Annette Dubreuil

*Using Body Cards to Record our Felt Senses, Map our Nervous System and Tell our Story*

Focusing Teacher Annette Dubreuil shares the various ways that her felt sense body cards (developed in 2015 at Focusing on Borden, see https://pupa.ca/blog/felt-sense-body-... for more) can be used to record our embodied experiences. This includes recording the felt sense that emerges in an individual Focusing or meditation session, or recording parts or qualities of ourselves. Once a part is identified, we can see where it lives in our autonomic nervous system and what role it plays. Noticing these aspects help us classify the parts according to Polyvagal Theory and Jan Winhall's Felt Sense Polyvagal Theory™, or other classification systems like Internal Family Systems. One can then create a map of one's nervous system or a timeline of one's life to tell your life story. The body cards also help us be more aware of when we are starting to shift neurophysiological states in real life, allowing us to call on our daily practices to self-regulate in the moment, including calling on some quality of Self energy (for example one of the 8Cs of Self-Leadership). Examples of body cards, nervous system mapping and a timeline are shared. Finally, a Focusing exercise is guided so you can better get to know one of your parts.

About Annette
Annette Dubreuil is an Embodied Creativity Facilitator, Coordinator-in-training, and environmentalist living in Toronto, Canada. She teaches Focusing to catalyze creativity and sustainable change within individuals and their teams—with the ultimate aim of a better world. With organizations she uses a host of embodied creativity facilitation tools: Theory U/Social Presencing Theatre, Dynamic Facilitation, and Open Space Technology. Annette teaches Focusing to individuals, one-on-one and in groups, via workshops, courses and her PUPA Focusing training program.

Her previous work supported the mobilisation of sustainability and climate change research, including as communications director of Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission. Annette is certified to teach Focusing through The International Focusing Institute, as a Certified Focusing Professional. She has completed the Presencing Foundation Program in Theory U at MIT. She has an MBA in sustainability and non-profits from the Schulich School of Business, and an undergraduate degree in environmental science from the University of Waterloo. She enjoys gardening, rock climbing, cycling, and cooking. Email: [email protected]

About the Felt Sense Polyvagal Approach to Trauma & Addiction Group
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The Felt Sense Polyvagal Approach to Trauma & Addiction Group is a place for you to explore with others, through a polyvagal lens, the experiences of trauma and addiction. We are focusing on understanding addiction through the lens of the nervous system, as an adaptive response to maladaptive environments. This group is growing in leaps and bounds indicating a hunger for change, for the kind of transformative change that polyvagal theory brings us. The group interacts online in the Polyvagal Institute Community on Mighty Network. Once every few weeks the group meets live on Zoom for an hour of exploration and discussion with a guest presenter.

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