Do you want to hold space more skillfully for people with chronic stress and/or unresolved trauma?

Perhaps you sense how to help others downregulate, but could use support helping people safely UPREGULATE.

Maybe you’ve heard about or even studied Polyvagal Theory and yet it hasn’t really clicked in a useful way.

We got you.

We are coming to Bozeman April 4th and 5th!

I studied Polyvagal Theory for 10 years.

The deeper I went, the more confused I got.

Then, I learned it in a more visual and experiential way.

I learned the power of safe upregulation.

Now, PVT strengthens and supports my daily life and all of my work.

-JoJo Phoenix Frank

This is what we want to give you.

How do we best support individuals who go into chronic shutdown?

What do we do if a client gets overwhelmed and becomes nonverbal?

How do we support people who must remain shut down in order to be safe?

With so much of wellness culture focusing on downregulating, we often miss a crucial path for healing : safe upregulation. 

This training primarily focuses on identifying ways for shut down and frozen nervous systems to safely climb their way back up to feeling safe and able to connect. 

This offering is open to ANYONE and is designed for those who work with others: including mental health therapists, physical therapists, and movement teachers.

“As a mental health therapist, I can say that JoJo offers a wide range of tools to use personally and with your clients in therapy. I regularly use the tools in sessions and for a personal nervous system reset. JoJo is very clear and knowledgable and you will walk away feeling engaged in the work you do to support others. " -Amy Friedman, LMFT

“As a mental health counselor, I highly recommend this training for any practitioner in the helping/healing role. It gave me valuable knowledge and experience I wish I knew sooner, for my clients and myself!” - Jess Conner, LCPC

Why Polyvagal Theory (PVT)?

• When taught in a visual/experiential way, PVT is an incredibly clarifying and resonant way to recognize and organize our daily physiological experiences

• PVT is grounded in compassion: it recognizes your nervous system dysregulation as highly adaptive and functional in an overwhelmingly stressful and overstimulating modern world.

• It’s not about pursuing expensive treatment and interventions. PVT is about creating enough safety to experience basic rest and play amidst the chaos.

Details:

• Who is it for? Those wanting to integrate the material into their work/caregiving with others such as:

  • Somatic therapists and coaches

  • Physical therapists

  • Yoga and other movement-based teachers

• Includes:

  • An audiovisual, embodied and experiential understanding of the five autonomic nervous system states

  • Demonstrations, practice facilitating, and feedback

  • Tons of polyvagal theory-informed upregulation exercises you can use with yourself, clients, students, and your family

Earlybird price: sliding scale $200-$270
Prices increase by $50 on February 15th, 2026

You will leave with more awareness and agency in working with your own nervous system as well as being able to more skillfully support your clients in their healing.

Dates and Times
Saturday, April 4th: 10:30am-1pm and 2pm-5:30pm 
Sunday, April 5th: 9am-12pm

Location
The Light House | 20 E Main St Suite 220, Bozeman, MT 59715

Cancellation Policy:
Full refund minus $10 admin fee until Feb 28th. 50 % refund March 1st to March 15th, or transfer to another person or future date. Sorry, no refunds starting  March 16th.

Meet your Facilitators

JoJo Phoenix Frank (they/them)

This training was created by JoJo Phoenix Frank and has been offered by them in both Bozeman and Missoula . They are grateful to be bringing Dagny Deutchman as a co-facilitator for the first time in this training!

JoJo Phoenix has been studying Polyvagal Theory for over ten years and has trained over 600 people in trauma-informed embodiment facilitation. Their main Polyvagal teachers are Deb Dana, Saj Ravzi, and Stanley Rosenberg.

Their facilitation and leadership values are most influenced by their previous work as Program Director and Lead Trainer for Yoga Behind Bars, where they led thousands of hours of programming in incarceration settings and collaborated with a diverse team of trainers to deliver trauma-informed facilitation trainings across the country.

The tools JoJo shares in their trainings have been practiced and developed with incarcerated veterans, groups of youth in juvenile detention, 1-1 private clients, contact improvisation students, and by JoJo in their personal life.

They currently work with clients doing consent, somatics, and platonic touch therapy and specialize in working with clients with touch-related trauma, those who are touch deprived. and those have who are highly physiologically sensitive. You can learn more about their 1-1 work here.

Dagny Deutchman (she/they)

Dagny has a Masters of Science in Psychology where they studied in a pod of scientists conducting research around biomedical markers of stress.

While Dagny’s emphasis was looking granularly at how mindfulness, self-compassion and sleep all relate with the stress-response and health systems independently, interpersonally, and communally—they became much more fascinated with communicating the body of stress and health science clearly and practically for people to improve their daily lives. 

Dagny’s facilitation style is influenced by both evidence-based theory as well as the practice of being an everyday human. Their biggest influences in group-work and facilitation include their 15+ year career as a backcountry whitewater guide on traditional Shoshone Bannock Lands, their 20+ years of experience as a movement instructor, and their 10+ years studying and teaching about the human stress response system, and their continued devotion to long-form silent meditation retreats. They are NARM trauma-informed and are constantly refining their nervous system skills by being a regular daughter, teacher, and friend. 

Polyvagal Theory has been an instrumental tool in their personal and professional life and they love nothing more than teaching and exploring it with others.

Dagny is also the owner and founder of The Art of Rest. You can find more about working with them here.