Program with certificate

Nervous system regulation strategies

and somatic practices

Nervous system management and attachment system regulation to help manage anxiety,
ruminations, emotional outbursts and cognitive-emotional overload linked to our traumas.

with Linda Thai, in French

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6 live sessions of 1 hours each | 30 hours of pre-recorded content
From October 7 to December 16, 2025

After a first promotion during the last quarter of 2024, Linda Thai is back to support you in its program.

Training with Linda Thai live is a rare opportunity. The training is accessible to mental health professionals, but Linda primarily wants to address the general public.

We are more than honored to have been chosen as partners and we hope
that many of you will be able to enjoy this second edition!

Restore nervous system functionality to fully enjoy life

A traumatic event can tip us into a state of survival. But after the event is over, sometimes the actions that allowed us to survive become embedded in our nervous system, sometimes causing long-term side effects on the body. The strategies that allowed us to survive end up preventing us from living fully.

In this three-level program, you will learn to recognize and safely use the tension patterns of these survival reactionsThis course offers nervous system management strategies to help manage anxiety, rumination, emotional overwhelm, and cognitive-emotional overload.

By understanding how to regulate the nervous system using various strategies, we open new options to the neuromuscular system, which can allow us to cultivate a renewed self-awareness of our past actions, thoughts and emotions. This presents us with an opportunity to restore the functionality of the nervous system so that we can fully enjoy life.

Regulate the nervous system to open new options to the neuromuscular system and cultivate renewed self-awareness.

A MESSAGE FROM LINDA

I greet you and your ancestors with respect.

My people come from the south of Vietnam, where the river meets the ocean, but far enough upstream that the water is fresh. I am the child of small merchants and traders, people who cultivated the land and received its bounty in the form of fruits, vegetables, fish, frogs, chickens and pigs. I am the daughter of fragrant rice.

Today, I live and work on the traditional lands of the Tanana Athabascan people in the heart of Alaska as a somatic therapist, trauma therapist, storyteller and trainer.

As a trainer, My philosophy is based on the values of my people, the portal of wisdom of my ancestors and a relationship to the earth: generativity, mutuality, reciprocity, respect, kindness, delicacy, humility and collective responsibility. I respond to the pronouns She / her.

Following the trauma of forced displacement experienced at a very young age, I lived my life remembering nothing, so as not to have to forget anything. Walking backwards in the snow. Erasing my own tracks as soon as they appeared.

For my own survival, I had to start researching the intersection between trauma and the body. I have learned that I thrive when I absorb new information that changes my own worldview through a paradigm shift—and my experience tells me that reversing my perception was necessary for healing. As a result, I am a strong advocate for self-education and the powerful introspection and self-awareness it brings.

For me, as a trauma survivor, exposure equals death. The echoes in my body tell me that being seen and heard makes me a target.

Teaching brings me incredible inner light and nourishes my soul, but it has taken a lot of work to be able to be present, to stand in front of others, to have a voice, to teach from my heart. I have also had enormous privileges, including being able to dedicate certain periods of my life to healing.

Learning brings me great personal satisfaction, and I believe that low-cost education is the fastest way to disrupt the patriarchal colonial system of domination and oppression through the withholding of knowledge. I believe in pricing that makes my courses accessible and affordable. I believe in providing equity scholarships. I believe in recognizing my teachers and their schools of knowledge. I believe we need to disrupt the systems that make education unavailable, inaccessible, and elitist.

Being trauma-informed, trauma-sensitive or trauma-guided without talking about oppression and social justice is impossible. Trauma is political. We cannot truly heal from our traumas without naming and resisting these forces that have infiltrated society's systems and institutions: sexism, racism, classism, ableism, colonialism, "homophobia"... to name a few.

In this context of confrontation and disruption, I am convinced that it is necessary activate our potential and ignite our innate desire to grow, learn and heal. I feel it is my responsibility to empower you to responsibly apply what you learn from our time together to your own situation. I invite you to share what you learn from your experiences with the community we form together.With sincerity, humility and gratitude, I look forward to sharing and being in community with you,

Linda.

Cultivate your interoceptive awareness: Develop a deep understanding of your bodily and emotional reactions for better self-control.

What you will learn

This program aims to show how the activation and immobilization cascade, whose initial role is to help us survive experiences that are too intense, can be used to improve our quality of life.

The proposed strategies will focus on bottom-up self-regulation, co-regulation, widening the window of tolerance, and interoceptive awareness. We will also practice some techniques resourcing to help bridge the gap between external and internal security.

Level I

Understanding psychological trauma and addiction processes from the perspective of hyper- and hypo-arousal and Polyvagal Theory.
Acquire methods of self-regulation and co-regulation which allow you to map your autonomic nervous system.
Apply polyvagal-informed self-regulation techniques.
Discover how to apply Polyvagal Theory inclusively to account for the lived experiences of racialized people and marginalized people more generally.

Level II

Learn bottom-up strategies and how to apply them to facilitate self-regulation in addiction and trauma recovery.
Eye activation exercises for orienting response, eye tension resourcing exercises and body orienting responses to cultivate patient safety.
Analyze techniques for working with dissociative responses and hyperarousal.
Apply somatic techniques that allow for the reprocessing of autonomic tension patterns and facilitate interoceptive awareness.

Level III

Analyzing “truncated actions” in attachment development.
Apply polyvagal-informed self-regulation techniques in relation to our experiences of truncated actions in the development of our attachment.
Apply techniques related to vocalization and truncated attachment crying.
Acquire techniques that facilitate interpersonal connection, expression, reciprocity and that nourish us on a personal level.

Discover nervous system management strategies to help manage anxiety, rumination, emotional overwhelm, and cognitive-emotional overload.

Who is this certificate for?

This program is aimed at all mental health professionals:

To psychologists, psychotherapists, psychopractitioners, psychiatric nurses.
To doctors, psychiatrists, addiction specialists and other health professionals.
To social workers and specialist educators.

But also:

To anyone interested in Linda Thai's work on somatic regulation.
For anyone who wants to evolve and move forward on the path to healing by adopting nervous system management strategies to help manage anxiety, ruminations, emotional overwhelm, and cognitive-emotional overload.*
To all the curious and passionate!

*Please note that this program is not therapy. We recommend that you contact a professional if you experience any difficulties.

Organization and schedule

Organization

6 sessions of 1 hour 30 each will take place live, via Zoom, with Linda Thai speaking in English and interpreted into French by Anne-Laure Gex.
Each live session also includes 2 hours of pre-recorded content.
All live broadcasts will then be made available in replay in the following week, each live allowing you to review them at your own pace and take notes. You will have access to all the teaching materials (videos and slides in French) until 30/06/2026.
The certificate will be issued upon completion of all lessons and at least an 80% success rate on the final quiz.

Dates and times of live sessions

Live sessions will take place from 20:00 PM to 21:30 PM (Paris time) on the following dates:

Level I: October 7 and 21
Level II: November 4 and 18
Level III: December 2 and 16

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In this excerpt from the program, Linda Thai discusses the orienting response as a solution to finding safety and offers an exercise to help the nervous system find its ventral position.

Apply somatic techniques that help re-source autonomic tension patterns and facilitate interoceptive awareness.

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The program in detail:

LEVEL I

Accumulation of trauma leads to nervous system disruption

Neuroception of danger and life threat: survival reactions in animals.
Autonomous impact of trauma on physical and mental health.
Link between traumatic stress and nervous system dysregulation.
The capacity window as a model for mapping the autonomic nervous system.

Mastering what you feel

The three main branches of the autonomic nervous system.
Mixed autonomous states.
The usual loops of the autonomic nervous system.
What is neuroception?
Neuroception, trauma and social justice.
How the state of your autonomic nervous system determines how you see the world.

Co-regulation, a neurobiological imperative for survival

Cranial nerves that drive the social engagement system as a neurobiological imperative for survival.
Manifestations of a dysfunction of the social engagement system.
Co-regulation through connection and reciprocity.
In the absence of co-regulation from a self-regulating caregiver*, the infant/child learns to self-regulate from a place of fear and self-protection.

*person who takes care of the child

Neuroception, Trauma, and Social Justice

Deconstructing class, race, gender, and other discrimination-based trauma in the context of psychotherapy and safe neuroception.
Submission: giving up one's authenticity to belong to a group.
Pacification: depriving oneself of vital energy in order to survive.

LEVEL II

Finding safety through the orienting response and releasing anxiety through the agitation response

Safety is found in our physical environment. The feeling of safety is the inner reflection of this outer safety. For many trauma survivors, a “gap” persists between safety and the feeling of security.
By orienting ourselves to our environment through our eyes (and then our bodies), we can lead our nervous system to a state of safety.
Practice a simple vagus nerve reset exercise.
Working with the sympathetic energy of anxiety: recognizing and releasing restlessness reactions and the need to find answers.

Vitality of the hands, face, ears and scalp… and additional exercises for dissociation.

The brain's somatosensory neocortex has countless nerve endings that extend to the hands, face, and feet.
The startle and freeze responses can cause tension in the face, ears, jaw, and neck to appear calm and unfazed in the face of potential danger.
Releasing tension in the hands, face, scalp, ears, jaw, and feet, not only to move beyond mild dissociative and fear or freeze responses, but also to reconnect with the vitality of our ventral vagal system (social engagement system), which allows us to express our feelings of connection through our facial expressions.
Engage cross-body responses to help us move out of mild dissociation.

Release tension in the neck, shoulders and diaphragm

The area between the shoulder blades is one of the areas that triggers activation of the sympathetic nervous system. Mild sympathetic responses can manifest as chronic tension in the shoulders and neck, ears, and jaw.
Other areas that trigger sympathetic activation are the outer hips and the inner core muscles (iliacus and psoas). In addition to connecting the lower and upper body, these muscle groups are the primary drivers and initiators of the fight-or-flight reflexes.
The diaphragm is a central stabilizing muscle that is also the driver of sympathetic activation.
Gently connect to the tension of the diaphragm and re-source it to regain well-being.

Restore fight, flight, and freeze responses

The freeze response can be described as a stuck state between our needs and our fears. When we have been paralyzed with terror, it is nearly impossible to remain still and safe, and our daily actions are tinged with anxiety and fear. We will discuss some exercises aimed at compassionately shifting the freeze in the body.
A truncated flight response can be felt in the body as anxiety, difficulty paying attention, or simply excess energy in the body. I will share with you a simple exercise to release a truncated flight response, which helps reset the nervous system and restore the capacity of the thoracic diaphragm, allowing you to breathe more fully and restfully.
To survive, many of us have learned to repress our anger, the life force energy that underlies the flight response. Others have learned to react instinctively and immediately. In all cases, these conditioned responses can inhibit our aliveness and sense of safety. We will learn to safely connect with anger to gently release a truncated or overreactive fight response from the nervous system. By learning to recognize the physical tension patterns of our fight responses on the emotional, mental, and somatic levels (e.g., irritability or the need for space), we can effectively return our nervous system to a peaceful, embodied aliveness.

LEVEL III

Beyond childhood, adulthood. Beyond the child, the family.

Interactive dynamics in alcoholic, dysfunctional, and/or unsupportive families result in unmet developmental needs.
What are the adaptive survival strategies developed by an individual, a family system or a culture.
An alternative coping strategy.

Attachment Cry Truncated

To survive, many of us have had to keep quiet. To heal from our trauma, we must reconnect with our ability to vocalize. In this course, we will explore:

A polyvagal-inspired attachment theory;
The history of body psychotherapy;
The characteristic expressions and neuromuscular pattern of a truncated attachment cry (or cry)
Resources for people who don't feel supported and nourished.

Attachment actions

In order to maintain a bond with our caregivers in our early years, many of us had to learn to inhibit or fear some of the key actions in the development of attachment – reaching, grasping, pulling, holding.

These actions of attachment form the foundation from which the embodied acts of asking, receiving, giving, and letting go, which underpin our relationships, take place.

Explore these truncated attachment actions with curiosity to better understand failing relational experiences in childhood and adulthood.
Explore with curiosity the somatization of truncated attachment crying.
Recalibrate the nervous system by offering yourself supportive gestures.

Feeding actions

In order to keep our unpleasant experiences from becoming a part of us or to survive a toxic environment, many of us have had to create a “nurturing barrier.” This nurturing barrier can also prevent us from letting in the good things, such as recognition from others, kindness, a sense of security, commitment, and reciprocity.

Pierre Janet's psychology of action and Ron Kurtz's notion of barriers to action.
The role and function of the “feeding barrier” that enables survival in unpleasant, unpredictable, or toxic environments.
Reshape the nervous system little by little.

Learn how to recognize and use safely
the tension patterns of survival reactions.

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Who is Linda Thai?

Linda Thai is a somatic therapist, trauma therapist and trainer. She specializes in the psychic and somatic treatment of developmental trauma. Linda has supported thousands of people around the world and demonstrated that mindfulness, trauma healing and grief management are ways of caring for oneself. Linda’s work is centered on healing and she is specifically interested in adults who were immigrants or refugees as children. Her unique teaching is infused with empathy, humor and storytelling, and is based on scientific research, practical tools and clinical knowledge, as well as her empirical wisdom.

She assisted Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, an internationally renowned psychiatrist and expert in psychological trauma, in his group psychotherapy workshops for the treatment of trauma related to attachment wounds. She holds a Master's degree in clinical social work with a specialization in the neurobiology of attachment and trauma.

Linda has studied Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Somatic Experiencing, Brainspotting, IFS (Internal Family Systems), Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST), Havening Touch, Flash Technique, and Structural Dissociation of the Personality. Her practice includes teaching Stephen Porges’ Safe and Sound protocol, yoga, and meditation. Linda works on the traditional lands of the Tanana Athabascan people (in Fairbanks, Alaska) and helps people heal from addictions, trauma, and mental health issues. She is passionate about historical and intergenerational trauma at the individual, community, and societal levels.

Take advantage of the early bird rate until September 29:

327 € TTC ~~Instead of 397~~

Payment in 4 installments possible via Paypal at the time of payment.*
Payment in 3 installments possible via Klarna at checkout.*

* Accessible in certain countries only

This rate gives you access to all educational materials until June 30, 2026:

More than 18 hours of lessons with Linda Thai live and on replay

3 levels of validation

A support and exchange group via WhatsApp

All educational tools (practical exercises, presentation materials, etc.)

Reconnect with your body using grounding techniques to regain a deep sense of safety.

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FAQ

How does the training take place?

Six 6-hour sessions will take place live via Zoom, with Linda Thai speaking in English and Anne-Laure Gex interpreting in French. Each live session also includes two hours of pre-recorded content.

All live broadcasts will then be made available for replay within the following week, allowing you to watch each live broadcast at your own pace and take notes.

When will the live sessions take place?

Live sessions will take place from 20:00 PM to 21:30 PM (Paris time) on the following dates:

Level I: October 7 and 21

Level II: November 4 and 18

Level III: December 2 and 16

The sessions will then be available on replay in the week following the live broadcast.

What language is the training in?

The training will be conducted in English with simultaneous interpretation into French.
You will be able to choose to listen in English or French and can change at any time.

How long can I access the online training and replays?

You will have access to all educational materials (videos and slides in French) until 30/06/2026.

Do I have to attend live streams to get my certificate?

No, attending the live Q&A sessions is not mandatory, but it is highly recommended. The certificate will be issued upon successful completion of all lessons and a minimum of 80% success rate on the final quiz.

Can this training be supported?

Unfortunately Quantum Way is not a training organization and is not Qualiopi or Datadock certified. There is therefore no CPF or FIFPL support.

I have few resources, can I benefit from a solidarity rate?

We offer a special rate on request for students, unemployed or low-income people. Do not hesitate to fill out this form which will allow us to take your situation into account.

What are the refund conditions?

For any refund request before September 7: 100% refund

For any refund request between September 8 and October 6: 50% refund

From 07/10/2025, the date the first module goes online, no refunds will be accepted.

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Nervous system regulation strategies and somatic practices