This free course, geared specifically for activists, teaches the most effective strategies and practices for regulating our nervous systems so we can do the work of social justice without becoming overwhelmed and burning ourselves out.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
How to regulate your nervous system – keeping it calm, energized and engaged in the face of adversity, overwhelm, discouragement…
WHO IS INVITED
The Womxn Project (host), The Social Justice Teams at UUCSC and First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Providence, The Huddle, The Westerly ARC, League of Women Voters, RI Interfaith Power and Light, Moms Demand Action RI, as well as individual activists in all social justice genres.
ABOUT BARBARA HOLTZMAN
Barbara Holtzman, MSW, LICSW, is a psychotherapist, author (Conscious Eating, Conscious Living; A Practical Guide to Making Peace with Food & Your Body), and activist (Chair of Adult Education and member of the Social Justice and Racial Justice committees at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of South County, a committee member for The Womxn Project, and a longtime member of the Huddle.
HOW THIS VIDEO PROGRAM WILL WORK
*The Basics: Deb Dana Explains Polyvagal Theory in “Befriending your Nervous System”
• Deb Dana: Befriending Your Nervous Sy...
*The Basics of Tapping (EFT – Emotional Freedom Technique) from the following YouTube:
• How to Tap - with Nick Ortner of The ...
Barbara will teach and demonstrate tools and techniques for maintaining your equilibrium, as well as coming back to calm, once you have gotten dysregulated into fight or flight or overwhelm. We will then practice using these tools, with case examples that we as activists are likely to experience.