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Nervous System Mastery Workshop Series

Next in person series:

4 workshops:

15 Nov, 22 Nov, 6 Dec, 13 Dec 2025

Saturdays 10am-12.30pm

Kickstart Arts

Building 1831 South/12 St Johns Ave

New Town TAS 7008

Experiential Learning Program in Nervous System Regulation

Do you often feel tired but wired? Perhaps you struggle with overthinking, can't find rest or have noticed yourself falling ill frequently from feeling stressed. These are signals that your nervous system may be operating in overwhelm.

If you've been struggling to find advice or solutions that work, or find it hard to apply theory into practice, this workshop series is for you.

In this four-part experiential series, learn how to sense, understand, and guide your body's physiological processes of stress and recovery.

Rather than receiving generic advice on stress management, you'll learn how to identify personal strategies that help you regulate and expand resilience. You'll be informed with the latest research in neuroscience for nervous system regulation, integrating both bottom-up (body-centred somatic practices) and top-down (cognitive) strategies to help you respond to stress effectively.

Through experiential explorations, you'll learn how to study your own experiences with mindfulness. Feel change in the moment and gain tools to apply immediately into your life.

Experts who inform the concepts we share include Manuela Mischke-Reeds (Hakomi), Dr. Peter Levine (Somatic Experiencing), Dr Scott Lyons (Somatic Stress Release), Dr Dan Siegel (Window of Tolerance), Dr Stephen Porges (Polyvagal Theory).

What You'll Learn

This series provides practical education in:

Understanding your individual stress response patterns
Developing body awareness as a foundation for self-regulation
Creating and sensing safety within your nervous system
Building a personalised toolkit of resources that support your wellbeing
Understanding and completing natural stress response cycles

Who This Serves

This series is designed for individuals interested in:

Understanding stress from a body-based perspective
Developing practical skills for nervous system regulation
Learning evidence-based approaches to resilience building
Exploring alternatives to purely cognitive stress management methods

No previous experience with somatic practices is required. The content is suitable for anyone curious about the connection between body and mind.

4 PART SERIES

1: Your Body's Stress Signature

Deepen body awareness and learn how to read the signals of your body before you're overwhelmed. Learn practical tools to quiet overthinking and shift how you feel. Gain choices in how you respond to stress.

Learning Objectives

Understand how you perceive and experience stress
Recognize how stress shows up in your body
Practice dual awareness as a regulation tool
Know several body-based techniques for shifting internal states
Uncover personal ways to integrate these practices into daily life

2: Sensing Safety & Connection

Feel how quickly your nervous system state can change. Learn how to connect with a sense of safety in your body as the first step in nervous system regulation. Identify your resources and start building your personal resilience toolkit by applying polyvagal theory.

Learning Objectives

Understand the role of safety in nervous system regulation
Be able to assess safety versus activation in your own system
Have practical tools for creating internal safety regardless of external circumstances
Identified personal strategies that help you shift into a regulated state

3: Titration & Pendulation

Learn how to assess your capacity and energy levels at any given moment. Learn ways to process stress at level 1 instead of 10. Feel how you can be with complex emotions and make space for what needs care.

Learning Objectives

Get to know your capacity indicators and map your window of tolerance
Be able to assess self-regulation strategies based on your window of tolerance
Know how you can process stress at a 1 instead of a 10
Gain techniques to surf big emotions

4: Completing Your Stress Cycle

Completing the stress cycle helps you restore your body's natural ability to regulate, and expand resilience. Explore a range of mobilisation techniques to process and release stress. Feel confident to integrate and apply your learnings in daily life.

Learning Objectives

Learn different ways to mobilise your stress response
Know when to process stress and when to restore energy
Have experienced completing a full stress cycle through guided practice
Integrate learnings from all 3 workshops, understand how to adapt your approach in different situations
Have tools to self-regulate (both bottom-up and top-down)

Participant Results

"I am no longer afraid of stress. I now have tools and strategies to use effectively for my growth and healing."

Zoe

"This entire workshop provided huge breakthroughs for me.

Taking small steps and using titration and pendulation were certainly missing pieces for me. I’ve had a tendency to take on too much at once out of impatience, but this is much more effective."

Sarah

"I loved all the practical exercises, combined with the teaching about the window of tolerance. Theory and practice weaved together are such a powerful combination.

I found the pendulation exercise particularly powerful. Our exploration of the technique helped me to see just how effective it can be at helping to manage a stressor."

Ali Kin

"I’m now more gentle with myself.

I give my self time and space to feel. I'm less judgmental of myself and others. I know i have the tools to heal myself over time.

I value the community for healing, sense of belonging & sharing."

Anita

"I have a different framework to understand my sister. I noticed my thoughts spiralling in a worrying situation. A little more self awareness.

I valued the warmth and compassion of delivery, plus very clear and succinct explanations of ideas. Also enjoyed the practical/experiential."

"The practical 'play' we did. It all made sense and consolidated the voyage of self discovery I've been doing on my own to deal with my trauma once and for all.

Learning about my window of tolerance and actually understanding I've had a very small one for so many years as I had never really dealt with anything."

"I felt how quickly my nervous state changes. I previously thought of it as changeable but perhaps not with the speed shown by the guided story. Made me realise how it’s changing all the time in micro-waves.

So useful to be guided and provided time to reflect on what works for me to move from fight, flight, freeze and how to process and move through in a healthy way."

"I feel like I’m more gentle on myself, and my stresses. I’ve been perhaps more aware of rising stress. Notes are fantastic and so thorough.

Very experienced and genuine facilitator. It was both challenging and very rewarding working with Rach in her stress management workshop. Highly recommended."

"The powerful impact of subtle shifts. I took away that this stress response cycle can be used an instance of alchemical work - transforming neural pathways activity."

WHAT TO EXPECT

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To be “well” is not to live in a state of perpetual safety and calm, but to move fluidly from a state of adversity, risk, adventure, or excitement, back to safety and calm, and out again. Stress is not bad for you; being stuck is bad for you.”

― Emily Nagoski, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

Nervous System Mastery Workshop Series

Experiential Learning Program in Nervous System Regulation

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What You'll Learn

Who This Serves

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4 PART SERIES

Participant Results

WHAT TO EXPECT