What's ALIVE In You? (September)

"...safety is the foundation upon which children build the many skills of emotional and behavioural self-control.'

-Dr. Stephen Porges

We are all wired to connect, to feel, and to sense into what is "alive" in us. Our ability to understand our emotions is an important life skill. Evenmore important is knowing how we can regulate our emotions and co-regulate with others around us.  Self-regulation and co-regulation are part of the developmental process. Co-regulation is different at different phases of child development. Children's capacity for self-regulation grows over time and are dependent on predictable, responsive, and supportive environments.

As we learn to balance and calm our internal sensory systems we are able to:

• have better physical and mental health
• appropriately respond to stress, challenges and conflicts
• nurture and sustain relationships
• use restorative practices for ourselves and encourage others to do the same

In this learning lab, we will explore the importance of emotional regulation and co-regulation and answer the following questions:

How might we better understand what emotional regulation and co-regulation means?

How might we understand the patterns in our behaviors and how we engage with others using emotional regulation and co-regulation?

How might we harness the power of our emotions and make them be more visible?

These are the questions we will explore in this 90 minute interactive workshop. Please do register only when you can be fully present for the learning session. 

THIS WORK IS OFFERED THROUGH A "DONATE WHAT YOU CAN" OFFERING. Most of our workshops are provided through voluntary work. For individuals with expendable income, donations are welcome and can support us in providing this work for more people from marginalized sectors. If you are interested in bringing this to your schools or organizations please do contact us directly.

About the facilitators:

Lana Jelenjev is a healing-centered practitoner, facilitator and community alchemist who designs spaces for "kapwa" (shared inner selves) to flourish. She is a learning experience strategist, advisor and consultant to changemakers, socio-civic organizations, non-profit organizations, communities who are re-imagining, designing, and facilitating spaces for belonging, healing and liberation. Lana is the chairperson for Neurodiversity Foundation and co-founders of Community Rituals and Neurodiversity Education Academy.

Saskia Wenniger is a learning designer, a media scholar and strengths based life coach specializing in ADHD.

She adores learning, interacting in communities of practice and collaborating with people who have similar interests and values, especially when it comes to co creating a more (neuro)diversity friendly future that can lift up the next generations into solving the problems of the future together.

Anya Pearse is an intuitive adviser, coach, and positive psychology educator who draws on her lived experience of almost two decades chronic illness. She combines her MSc in Applied Positive Psychology - “the science of what makes life worth living” - with her passion for self-compassion, psychological flexibility, self-as-instrument, and polyvagal theory. She enjoys helping positive difference makers navigate their experience with more kindness and understanding, providing the ‘missing link’ between positively impacting themselves and positively impacting others.