The Co-Regulation Revolution
Teaching Videos

Chapter I – Orienting to Body Up Co-Regulation (BCR)

1A What is Body Up Co-Regulation?
Founder Beth Dennison explains co-regulation from the body up, how it works and why it matters.
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1B Intention: Finding Home in Our Core – in Body Up Co-Regulation
Let’s look at how to engage a specific intention in body up co-regulation practice. Finding Home in Our Core is often a great place to start.
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1C What is Embodiment
Learn more about embodiment and five big reasons it is important with trauma therapist Beth Dennison.
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1D Life is a Regulation Game
Getting stuck in threat responses, anxiety or depression wears us out. Healthy regulation helps us adjust for the reality at hand and live longer, happier lives. Co-regulation helps us shift gears in our nervous systems, fast.
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Regulation Game

1E Expression, Reflection, Response – Three Pillars of Co-Regulation
These are the basics of good communication and co-regulatory connection. We need to show our authentic self, be seen and get a response. We also need to be able to reflect what we take in and respond to others.
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1F TALK – Communication in Body Up Co-Regulation
Putting words on hard things helps us understand and think about our experience. We can share, we do not have to be lost and alone with overwhelming feelings. We can decide how to get help.  
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Chapter II – Confronting White Supremacy Culture:

      The Anti-Oppression Power of Co-Regulatory Peer Relating 

2A Oppression, Embodiment and Co-Regulation
Oppression is always based in misuse of power in hierarchical relationships. We need to build nourishing, embodied, peer relationships if we are to get off of the ladder of white supremacy culture.
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Chapter III – The Science Behind BCR 

3A Two Green Lights for Safety
How do we know when we are safe? How do we judge, on a nervous system level, when it is safe to relax, or connect, or play?
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3B Complexity and Intensity in the Nervous System
Complexity and intensity! Everything that overwhelms the nervous system falls into one of these two categories. Understanding this helps us stay regulated or re-regulate as needed.
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3C Three Steps on The Evolutionary Ladder
Let’s talk a bit more about the Evolutionary Ladder and what it shows us about our nervous systems.
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3D Our Social Nervous System
Stephen Porges, the originator of polyvagal theory, researched and explains our social nervous system, which is fundamental to co-regulation.
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3E Up and Down Evolutionary Ladder
The Evolutionary Ladder explains how our bodies respond to experiences of threat and safety in terms of how our nervous systems evolved for survival. Up the ladder takes us to more complex strategies. Down the ladder produces more primitive behavior.
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3F The Mood Map
We can use the polyvagal model and the Evolutionary Ladder to map our moods, make decisions about our behavior, and strategize about co-regulation.
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3G Neuroception
While perception usually involves conscious awareness, neuroception is unconscious and happens fast, before we are conscious of anything.
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3H Threat Responses
Our survival can depend on fast responses to all sorts of threats. Our well-being and social life depend on shifting back into relaxed states as soon as possible after a threat response.
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3I The Visceral Afferents
We have a network of nerves that are all about letting us know how we feel internally. They involve emotions as well as sensations! They are an important part of the polyvagal nervous system model.
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3J The Elements of Attunement
How does one nervous system recognize another? How do we know when we are connected? What are the mechanisms of co-regulation? Here are some of the basics.
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3K Wired for Co-Regulation
Co-regulation and cooperation give us an evolutionary advantage.
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Chapter IV – Safety in Body Up Co-Regulation

4A Safety First!
Safety First! Threat Responses interfere with learning and connection and so we must promptly address unnecessary threat responses at a nervous system level if we want to stay present and available for connection and learning.
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4B Embodiment and Dissociation
Learn about embodiment and dissociation from Beth Dennison, founder of Body Up Co-Regulation.
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4C Shame, Connection and Antidotes to Shame
Shame is the blade that splits our wholeness into a presented self and a held-back, hidden self. Belonging and mattering are antidotes to shame.
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Chapter V – Intention and Skills: 

      How to Decide What To Do    

5A Intention in Body Up Co-Regulation
Choosing an intention for our practice can focus our experience and/or help up explore a particular aspect of our nervous systems or of our relating skills.
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5B Embodiment Around Others – a key to co-regulation
What does it mean to listen to your body while around other people? Find out with Beth Dennison in this short video.
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Chapter I – Orienting to Body Up Co-Regulation (BCR)  

5C Embodiment and Finding Home in Your Core – a co-regulation skill set
Building embodiment skills improves co-regulation and our capacity for authentic relating. Beth teaches about the importance of finding home in our core, and a simple way to start.
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5D Embodied Boundaries
Want to get closer? Get boundaries! Surprising but true benefits of good boundaries, and why this is an essential skill in relating.
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5E Boundary Muscles and Body Up Co-Regulation
Boundary muscles express and represent our physical capacity for accessing a sense of safety, physical and social. Allowing ourselves to use these muscles, and developing the associated skills, helps us have healthy relationships, personally, professionally, and socially.
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5F Giving the Body a Voice Around Others with Body Up Co-Regulation
GGiving the Body a Voice Around Others involves self-expression from the body up. It helps us have authentic relationships with others, and with ourselves!
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5G Tracking Self and Other
Tracking Self and Other in Real Time is an essential, but much-neglected skill. In this video Beth teaches about this skill, and how to build it.
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Chapter VI – How to Co-Regulate Online or In Person    

6A Getting Started with Body Up Co-Regulation
How to make opportunities for connection and co-regulation. Try a simple, quick practice before beginning an activity with others!
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6B Leader & Mirror Roles in Body Up Co-Regulation
The Leader and Mirror roles are an essential part of successful Body Up Co-regulation. In this video Beth explains how and why these roles work.
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6C Finding a Buddy for Practicing Body Up Co-Regulation
Asking folks to try co-regulating with you is not always easy, but co-regulation may be just what someone in your life wants to learn and share with you. Here are some suggestions for inviting people in your life to co-regulate with you.
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6D Physical Tips for Online Relating
These simple, practical adjustments to your environment can have a real impact on how connected you feel to someone in a video conference or Zoom social event.
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Afterword

Hope with Body Up Co-Regulation
Staying hopeful and cultivating hope are important elements of personal and collective health and productive action.
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The Exercises

(Return to the book for instructions and video links to specific exercises.)

Practicing BCR with a Buddy
This video is an overview of the partner/buddy practice for co-regulating.
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Appendices

Make Embodied Relationships Part of Your life
Embodied relating is good for us all! And once it becomes familiar, it really feels good to include our body up wisdom in our experience and choices as we relate to others. Here are some thoughts on sharing Body Up Co-Regulation with folks in your life.
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