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Deb Dana, LCSW
A founding member of the Polyvagal Institute specializing in complex trauma, Deb Dana, LCSW, is a clinician, consultant, author, and speaker who applies Polyvagal Theory to understand and resolve the impact of trauma in people’s lives. Widely credited with adapting Polyvagal Theory for trauma treatment, Deb is the leading translator of this scientific framework for public and mental health professionals.
Deb pioneered the Rhythm of Regulation® methodology—tools, techniques, and practices that unlock the power of Polyvagal Theory for professionals and curious individuals from all backgrounds. The creator of the signature Rhythm of Regulation Clinical Training Series, Deb’s work demonstrates how understanding the nervous system’s organizing principles can transform how we navigate relationships, mental health challenges, and trauma recovery.
Her clinical publications with W.W. Norton include The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation, Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection: 50 Client-Centered Practices, The Polyvagal Flip Chart, The Polyvagal Card Deck, and Polyvagal Practices: Anchoring the Self in Safety. She partners with Sounds True to bring her polyvagal perspective to a general audience through her book Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory and the audio program Befriending Your Nervous System: Looking Through the Lens of Polyvagal Theory.
Deb lectures internationally on Polyvagal Theory–informed work with trauma survivors and serves as a consultant to the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium at the Kinsey Institute, a clinical advisor to Khiron Clinics, and an advisor to Unyte-ILS. In addition, Deb offers workshops with diverse groups and communities beyond clinical settings to bring the Polyvagal perspective into the ordinary and extraordinary experiences of daily life.
Betsy Polatin, MAF
An internationally recognized breathing/movement and somatic trauma resolution specialist, Betsy Polatin, MFA, SEP, AmSAT, was a professor in Theater and Music at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts for twenty-five years. She authored the best-selling HUMANUAL, an Epic Journey to Your Expanded Self, and The Actor's Secret. Her background includes forty-five years of movement education and performance, as well as training in the Alexander Technique, yoga, meditation and spiritual practices, Breathing Coordination, trauma resolution, and the broader healing arts. Greatly influenced by the teachings of spiritual and Meditation Masters, Betsy leads international trainings where she presents her unique and revolutionary fusion of ideas: scientific knowledge combined with ancient wisdom and intuitive human creativity.
Teaching experience includes Touch and Movement in Trauma Therapy, Kripalu, The Embodiment Conference, Psychotherapy Networker, Performing Arts Medicine Association, U.S. Association for Body Psychotherapy, Science and Nonduality Conferences, and International Trauma and Yoga Conferences in the US and abroad.
Since 2016, she has been co-teaching the ongoing traveling workshops "Trauma and the Performing Artist" and "Trauma in the Public Eye" with Peter A. Levine, PhD. She also teaches Returning to Ourselves, the Wisdom of Trauma, with Dr. Gabor Maté.
Betsy is the author of a chapter in the forthcoming Norton Professional Series book, Somatic-Oriented Therapies – Embodiment, Trauma, Polyvagal Perspectives. As a well-known educator, she has published numerous articles on Huffington Post. She has a training/non-training course and maintains an international private practice online. Humanual.com
Megan Monahan
After working in the stressful world of the music industry for 7 years, Megan reached a breaking point in 2009 and knew that she needed to create a change. Although she was living the life she thought she always wanted, she was unhealthy, unhappy and felt burned out from life. Megan turned to The Chopra Center for Wellbeing to learn how to create life balance and manage her stress. She immediately began studying with Deepak Chopra and Dr. David Simon, the co-founders of the Chopra Center and a year later she had quit her job in music and was invited to work at The Chopra Center. There she continued her education with teachers like Marianne Williamson, Wayne Dyer, Byron Katie, Jean Houston and under Deepak Chopra became a certified instructor in Primordial Sound Meditation.
Megan Monahan has been practicing and teaching Vedic Meditation since 2009. She began her study and work in meditation with Deepak Chopra and continues to partner and share the stage with him as a host and teacher at his events several times a year. In addition to reaching thousands through her classes, she also serves as one of only a handful of Lululemon ambassadors that specializes exclusively in meditation. Megan's meditation recordings have been shared internationally through multiple media platforms like Wanderlust TV and with apps like Unplug Meditation. She is the founding meditation instructor for the groundbreaking, millennial-driven Mend app and helps produce The Shine LA. Megan's brand partnerships and collaborations also include Unplug Meditation, Rocnation, and Athleta. She writes for and is featured in LA Yoga Magazine and has been featured online in print and video for Origins, Beaming, Sticky Be Socks, Equinox, Be The Career Change, and Spiritual Gangster, among others.
Dr Terry Egan, MD
Terry V. Eagan, M.D. is the founder and CEO of Eagan Medical Group, LLC., a thriving mental health practice treating over 2000 patients annually. His private patients have included leaders in industry, politics, and performers from television, music and film, many at the highest levels of success. A highly respected consultant, Dr. Eagan has served as Medical Director for several addiction and eating disorder treatment centers throughout Los Angeles including Monte Nido Residential Treatment Center, Clementine Residential Living and the Eating Disorder Center of California.
Dr. Eagan specializes in effective treatment regimens for all types of emotional distress, including those arising from the stressful demands of public attention and celebrity. His range of specialties encompasses primary psychiatric conditions, eating disorders, substance-abuse disorders, impulse control disorders, trauma & abuse, human sexuality and spiritual therapy. Dr. Eagan's treatment approach incorporates pharmacologic interventions with evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapies, adjunctive modalities and traditional spiritual practices.
Dr. Eagan is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology and the Medical Board of California as a physician and surgeon, and is a Diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners. He served as chief resident in psychiatry at the University of Southern California (USC) School of Medicine from 1990-1992. An expert in Professional Ethics and Compassion Fatigue, Dr. Eagan has guided training seminars for industry leaders, multinational corporations, public school systems, community health agencies, and religious organizations around the world.
Dan Lawrence, Consultant Jungian Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist
A Jungian psychoanalytic psychotherapist, depth psychological researcher, writer, and social dreaming consultant living in London, Dan Lawrence helps people clarify how they want to live by exploring the unthought known of their individual and collective lives. Dan’s blog, “The Unthought Known,” explores “the purposeful bringing-into-view of something known in the emotional, physical, and perhaps imaginal life of the individual (or organization), that has eluded formulation.”
Dan has studied individual and collective approaches to dreaming across a breadth of depth psychological traditions. Dan holds Postgraduate diplomas in Jungian and Freudian theories of human development from the University of London, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Theology from King’s College, University of London, and a Postgraduate diploma in Rogerian psychotherapy from the University of East Anglia and Cognitive Psychotherapy from Reading University.
Dan holds full registrations/accreditations with the British Psychoanalytic Council, the UKCP Council for Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis, and the UK College of Psychoanalysts. Dan writes from post-Jungian, depth psychological, and contemplative perspectives.
Tracy, Lady Northampton
Tracy, Lady Northampton is a UKCP and BACP Accredited Psychotherapist with a Master’s Degree in Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy (Clinical). A clinical supervisor and training therapist with over 30 years of experience in mental health, Lady Northampton has worked in various clinical settings including British Airways, The Priory Hospital Group, and the Recovery Centre, London. In addition to being in private practice in London since 1992, Lady Northampton has been a patron of The Body Dysmorphic Disorder Foundation since 2020 and is a registered yoga teacher.
Spencer, Lord Northampton
Affectionately known as “Spenny,” Lord Spencer Northampton is the 7th Marquess of Northampton. Alongside his wife Tracy, Lady Northampton, Lord Northampton transformed The Falcon from a sleepy village public house on the grounds of Castle Ashby, his ancestral estate, to a destination for sophisticated seekers of rest, renewal, and deep connection to nature. Lord Northampton’s belief in the betterment of self and society is perfectly expressed in his commitment to Freemasonry, one of the world’s oldest secular social and charitable organisations. Dedicated to upholding the values of Integrity, Friendship, Respect, and Service to empower members to be the best they can be, Freemasons contributed over £50m to deserving causes in 2020. Lord Northampton served as Pro Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England, the governing body of Freemasonry in England and Wales from 2001 to 2009.
Natasha Silver Bell, CEO & Founder of SilverBell Global
Natasha uses her singular vision to champion clinicians and other practitioners to launch their visions for the future by creating resonant modalities to serve thriving communities. In addition to her leadership role at SilverBell Global, Natasha is a co-founder of The Inservice Foundation, providing mental health support to underserved populations, and Youth Prevention Mentors (YPM), empowering and activating young adults through mentorship and risk mitigation. A driving force elevating the coaching industry, The SilverBell Global Goach Development Program fosters personal and professional development through meaningful collaboration and education with leaders in the field. Ongoing trainings include Polyvagal Theory & Skills training with Deb Dana, Trauma Informed Coaching and Supervision with Lou Lebentz, and Sociometrics with Tian Dayton. Natasha serves as Vice President of the Board of Directors of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence/ Westchester (NCADD/Westchester).
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