Nervous System Mapping Workshop - 1 session

Description

You can select one of the sessions of the 3-part Nervous System Mapping workshop.

Nervous System States: October 3rd
Understanding Your Triggers: October 10th
Discovering Your Resources: October 17th

Ever react faster than you'd like, then wonder why?

The way you react has a pattern, and this is where you learn to read it. Across three Saturday workshops, you'll come to understand your nervous system: why you respond the way you do, what shifts you, and what helps you come back to yourself. These sessions are experiential, not lectures. You won't just learn about your nervous system, you'll experience and map your own patterns, leaving each workshop with something you can use in everyday life.

The three workshops:

Nervous System States
An experiential workshop exploring how your nervous system responds to the world around you. Using words, movement, breath, colour, texture, sound and relational experiences, we'll explore the different states of your nervous system and how they show up in your body, emotions, thoughts and behaviour.

Rather than simply learning about nervous system states, you'll have an opportunity to experience, express and map your own patterns, noticing what activates you, what helps you feel safe and connected, and what supports you in moving towards greater regulation and flexibility.

The workshop draws on current research on stress, arousal regulation, interoception and the nervous system, alongside contemporary somatic approaches. No previous experience is needed. Just come as you are, curious and ready for some self-discovery in a safe and supportive space.

Understanding Your Triggers — and discovering what brings you back to yourself.
In the previous workshop, we explored “How do I react?”, noticing the different states our nervous system can move through and how they show up in our bodies, emotions, thoughts and behaviour. In this workshop, we take a closer look at what moves you between these states: what activates or unsettles you, and what naturally brings you back towards a sense of safety and connection.

We'll look at the people, situations, environments, thoughts and sensations that can shift us into states of greater activation or withdrawal, as well as those precious small moments, experiences and connections that naturally support us. Rather than simply identifying what activates and what soothes you, you'll have an opportunity to explore how your patterns unfold: what happens in your body, what you tend to think or do, what pulls you away from yourself, and what helps you find your way back.

You'll leave with a clearer understanding of your own patterns, a personal map of what activates and supports you, and practical ways of creating more choice in how you respond.

Prerequisite: Completion of the previous workshop, Nervous System States.

Discovering Your Resources — and building your own toolkit for navigating stress and coming back to yourself.
In the previous workshop, we explored “What happens to me?”, noticing the experiences that activate or unsettle us, as well as those that naturally bring us back towards a sense of ease, connection and aliveness. In this workshop, we take the next step: “What can support me?” We'll explore how some people, practices, sensations and activities can become resources we can intentionally draw on when we need support.

We'll explore what genuinely feels supportive to your system, and how different resources may help when you're overwhelmed and wired, and when you feel flat or disconnected. Rather than simply creating a list of things that help you relax, you'll have an opportunity to experience and experiment with different resources, noticing what changes in your body, attention, emotions and sense of connection.

You'll leave with a personal toolkit of your resources and a deeper understanding of when and how to draw on them in everyday life.

Prerequisite: Completion of the previous workshop, Understanding Your Triggers.

Your guide
Tamara Vidovic offers nervous-system-informed somatic counselling, supporting people through stress, anxiety, burnout, overwhelm and trauma, as well as the quieter experiences of feeling disconnected, stuck, or low on energy and motivation.

Combining psychological exploration with body awareness, breath, movement and other experiential practices, she helps people understand themselves more clearly, strengthen their capacity for self-regulation, and reconnect with a greater sense of aliveness, ease and pleasure. Over more than a decade of supporting adults, she has developed an integrative approach rooted in her training as a psychologist and body psychotherapist in Serbia and her certification as a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner.

The Well Zone members receive a 15% discount on any booking.