Practice Library

This is a another themed practice series offering, and its open to all, and free of charge. Over 8 sessions of 75min we will get to know our nervous system a bit better.

This is a level 1 series so the introductory practice , or equivalent, should be enough previous practice work to to participate. There is some theory to the work, which is mostly offered in form of the reading handout. That leaves most of the session time free for us to practice.

Here is an attempt to to describe the sessions. Modern neurobiology conceives of our nervous system has having got more sophisticated over time, and particularly adapting from a primarily individual nervous system to one that is more social in nature. So we call it my nervous system or we might justifiably go ahead and call it our nervous system, or the social nervous system.

The series draws heavily on the work of Stephen Porges and Deb Dana. Porges offered the conceptual framework, based on hard peer reviewed science, while Dana showed us how to apply it to our relationships, be those family, work or therapeutic.

The series is not going to make you enlightened, or smarter. The series if not going to make you say oh now i get it. What it is, is a journey, a journey into our selves. It's a taste of the less conscious parts of us that are not necessarily obvious. We can only necessarily nibble at this work, this is what Peter Levine called titration. Its the idea of working with strong chemicals one drop at a time.

Session Outline

S1 On regulation

S2 Regulated mobilization

S3 Regulated immobilization

S4 Glimmers as a doorway

S5 Stress mobilization part 1

S6 Stress mobilization part 2

S7 Stress immobilization

S8 Adaptive re-tuning, and un-re-tuning

Heads up

This series is slightly brave work. While we approach it in the gentlest way we know how, the inquiry almost of necessity prods our old messaging and patterns of behavior. Even though those patterns might not serve us, disturbing them has the potential for some dysregulation to show up.

In order to sign up for this work, it is highly recommended that you come at this with some capacity to hold your inner world with some lightness and distance. Each participant is called to hold their own process of regulation and making mindful visits to their edges.

The good news is that we will be using our tried and tested pair listening processes. This protects us from advising, judging, explaining and all that stuff, as we have grown used to from AR practice. We will also be including some embodied practice to keep bringing our bodies to a home base of regulation.