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FSPM Facilitator Training

Learn how to teach Polyvagal-Informed Focusing based on the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model with confidence, depth, and embodied presence. This is where both routes in the FSPM pathway come together, on the way to applying for FSPM Facilitator certification.

Participants must be graduates of the FSPM Core Principles and Certificate course. If you're a clinician or mental health professional, you join after the EATT Lab: Embodied Supervision in Practice. If you're a coach or educator, you join directly and develop a project that brings FSPM into your own work.

FSPM training

From Learning to

Living

From Student to Teacher

You’ve experienced the transformation of the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model. Now learn how to guide others through it with a structured, experiential training that prepares you to teach, facilitate, and lead.

Learn to Teach

  • Lead groups and experiential practices

  • Teach Polyvagal-informed concepts with confidence

  • Facilitate Focusing partnerships and exercises

Mentorship & Practice

  • Live online training with Jan Winhall

  • Real-world breakout leadership experience

  • Personalized feedback and integration support

Professional Expansion

  • Final step before Facilitator application

  • Earn Focusing Trainer Certification

  • Integrate FSPM into your existing work

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Teach from an
Embodied Place

Step into embodied leadership and learn how to teach the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model and Polyvagal-Informed Focusing with confidence, clarity, and depth - all within a live online training designed for experienced practitioners ready for the next level.

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More than learning how to teach concepts, this unique training supports you in becoming a relational guide... someone who can facilitate felt sense, support nervous system safety, and model the healing power of compassionate presence.

Schedule & Format

This nine-month online course begins on Thursday, September 10, 2026. The cohort will attend the FSPM Core Principles and Certificate course for the first 6 months as breakout room assistant leaders and in breakouts with participants in triads. In addition, students will meet as a cohort with Jan for four classes. Between live sessions, students are required to meet with their Focusing partner for practice sessions and complete self-paced course content. Breakout Leadership Schedule: Sept. 10, 2026 from 12 noon to 2:30pm ET (check in at 11:30am ET) Oct. 15, 2026 from 12 noon to 2:30pm ET (check in at 11:30am ET) Nov. 12, 2026 from 12 noon to 2:30pm ET (check in at 11:30am ET) Dec. 10, 2026 from 12 noon to 2:30pm ET (check in at 11:30am ET) Jan. 14, 2027 from 12 noon to 2:30pm ET (check in at 11:30am ET) Feb. 18, 2027 from 12 noon to 2:30pm ET (check in at 11:30am ET) Cohort 90-minute group sessions with Jan Winhall: We will have a preliminary meet up on September 3, 2026 from 11am to 12pm ET. Details will be sent on a separate email. Sept 17, 2026 from 12 noon to 1:00 pm ET Dec 3, 2026 from 3:00pm to 4:30pm ET Feb 25, 2027 from 12 noon to 1:30pm ET May 20, 2027 from 12 noon to 1:30pm ET

Course Overview

By reflecting on learning principles, group process, and program development, participants will be prepared to integrate FSPM into any setting. Topics to be examined include how to teach the basics of Polyvagal Theory, interoception, neuroception, co-regulation, the 7-fs, felt-sense, focusing attitude, establishing Focusing partnerships, the experiencing scale, and more. In this course, participants will learn specific strategies and resources to build safety while working with blocks, and inner critics.

Included in this Course

  • Learn how to teach Felt Sense Polyvagal Model, including Polyvagal-Informed Focusing (PIF), to others in a group or individual setting.

  • Focusing Trainer Certification from The International Focusing Institute upon completion of this course.

  • Focusing Partnerships: Bolster self-awareness through self-exploration and work with peers.

  • Access to course recordings and recordings of the PIFTT prerecorded course 

Student Expectations

  • To attend all six monthly 2.5 hour online sessions inclusive of lecture and co-leading group breakouts (max 1 make-up session; sessions recorded).

  • To attend the four cohort classes with Jan.

  • To maintain a Focusing partnership meeting bi-weekly (12h total) throughout the course.

  • To complete a video recording of themselves teaching, which directly contributes to completion of this certificate and the development of their plan to integrate FSPM.

  • For coaches and educators: to complete a project bringing FSPM into your own work, submitted to Jan for her review and feedback, plus a one-on-one session with Jan (~10h total).

  • Upon completion of all requirements, and in collaboration with Jan, participants will receive Focusing Trainer Certification from The International Focusing Institute (this requires an extra fee with an upgraded IFI membership) and be eligible to apply for FSPM Facilitator certification from FSPM Institute.

Tuition

Investment for clinicians: $899

Investment for coaches: $1199 (in place of the EATT Lab supervision group, tuition includes a one-on-one with Jan and her personal review and feedback on your project)

​A limited number of scholarships are available - apply here.

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​If you’re missing the community, looking to refresh your skills, or seeking input on a case, alumni of this course are welcome to drop-in to another live offering at $30/class. Please email hello@fspminstitute.com to drop-in to a Supervision Group class.

Clinical Applications

FSPM and Polyvagal-Informed Focusing is used across:

  • Trauma and complex trauma

  • Addiction and compulsive patterns

  • Dissociation and shutdown

  • Chronic pain and somatic distress

  • Neurodiversity

  • Relationship and attachment issues

  • Sexual trauma and gender-based violence

Who Should Attend

This course is for graduates of the FSPM Core Principles and Certificate course who are interested in teaching the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model in a variety of settings. There are two ways in. 1. Clinicians and mental health professionals arrive here after the FSPM Supervision (EATT Lab). 2. Coaches, group facilitators, and yoga or body-based practitioners come directly after the Certificate and, in place of the clinical supervision, develop an applied project during the training. Graduates are often in the fields of therapy, coaching, bodywork, education, and other healthcare professions.

Haven't started the FSPM Learning Series yet? Get details here.

Be Part of the Community that Extends Beyond the Course

Participants become part of a living network of professionals, seekers, and somatic practitioners who are reshaping how trauma and addiction are understood and treated. The FSPM Institute fosters connection, mentorship, practice partnerships, and shared learning long after the training ends.

"Learning and working from Jan’s Felt Sense Polyvagal Model has shifted and added depth to my work that has benefited me and my clients significantly over the years. I appreciate the opportunity to share and present my own clients, to feel supported and receive feedback in live sessions. Further, it’s been so fascinating to hear the process and work of others from such diverse settings."

Lorri Pacheco, MSW, FSPM Facilitator

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