Understand Your Nervous System

A practical 2-hour online class for changemakers, facilitators, coaches, educators, care providers, and teams.

Most of us are moving through our days with a nervous system that’s working far harder than we realise. We’re navigating rapid change, rising stress, uncertainty, and overstimulation — and wondering why we feel foggy, reactive, overwhelmed or disconnected.

This class gives you something we should all have been taught much earlier:
a simple, embodied way to understand your nervous system and work with it, so you can think clearly, connect more deeply, and respond with more choice.

If you care about your own wellbeing, your relationships, or the quality of your work, this class will change how you move through the world.

Why this class exists

When your nervous system is unsettled, everything becomes harder — collaborating, parenting, leading, creating, even being kind to yourself.

Most people can feel the effects.
Very few understand why it happens or what to do in the moment.

This session offers a clear and human introduction to nervous system literacy — a foundation for wellbeing, creativity, relational resilience, and response-ability in complex times.

What we explore

A grounded, accessible introduction to:

Nervous system basics

Understand how your body shifts between connection, activation, and shutdown — and how these states influence decision-making, communication, creativity, and wellbeing.

Polyvagal Theory in plain language

What the vagus nerve does, why your body reacts the way it does, and how you can support regulation in everyday life.

The window of tolerance

How stress affects your brain’s ability to think and relate — and simple ways to widen your window over time.

Five adaptive stress responses

Fight, flight, freeze, fawn, flop — how they show up, why your body chooses them, and how to meet each response with compassion and skill.

Signs of dysregulation

The subtle cues in yourself and others that signal overwhelm, collapse, or activation.

Somatic practices you can use immediately

Breathing, grounding, orientation, and regulation tools you can apply on the spot — in meetings, with clients, with your kids, or whenever life gets loud.

Introduction to co-regulation

How our nervous systems shape one another, and the cues that create safety or tension in teams, groups, and relationships.

A guided embodied reflection

A settling practice to help you feel into your own patterns and pathways to steadiness.

A follow-up workbook

Reflective prompts and somatic exercises to help you continue building capacity and awareness after the class.

Why it matters

A regulated nervous system supports:

✨ Clarity — thinking with more spaciousness and less reactivity
✨ Creativity — accessing imagination instead of survival mode
✨ Connection — relating with warmth and attunement
✨ Collaboration — working with others without burning out
✨ Sustainable care — staying engaged without draining yourself
✨ Response-ability — pausing, sensing, and choosing your next move

These skills are foundational for anyone working with people or navigating complex environments — leaders, designers, facilitators, educators, social workers, parents, community organisers and teams.

What you’ll leave with

By the end of the class, you will:

✅ Identify your personal stress patterns
✅ Understand what’s happening in your body during activation or shutdown
✅ Know what to do in the moment when you feel overwhelmed
✅ Practise regulation tools you can use throughout your day
✅ Strengthen self-awareness and inner capacity
✅ Begin building a ‘language of safety’ for yourself, others, and your teams
✅ Feel more grounded, resourced, and connected to your own experience

This is knowledge you can use immediately — and keep with you for life.

How it works

This is a live online class with practical, interactive elements.
You’ll receive the session link and access details when you register.

Spaces are limited.

If you’re ready to feel clearer, calmer, and more connected in the way you show up for yourself, others, and your work, I’d love you to join us.

Testimonials

“I found the class useful and insightful. It left me thinking about my work and relationships for days. I even explained the window of tolerance to my 7-year-old — she called hypoarousal her ‘hiding’ state.”
— Dan Gooden, Consultant

“I’m so glad I attended the Nervous System Literacy workshop. What I learned feels like a vital piece of the puzzle for navigating life in these times. I now have a much clearer understanding of what’s happening for me — and for others — when things feel overwhelming. Jax presented the material in an engaging, visual and practical way, and I’m already using the strategies with noticeably more ease. I honestly wish we learned this in school and talked about it more openly at work.”
— Hilary Davies

“What I most appreciated was how Jax framed nervous system regulation as more than self-care — as a practice that supports collective creativity, compassion and response-ability. The course came at exactly the right time. Jax explained things in a clear, grounded and practical way that made both the theory and practices feel intuitive and genuinely doable.”
— Kylie Wrigley, Climate justice organiser

“Your passion for this topic is obvious. I loved all the activities in the Practice Library. Here’s to widening the window of tolerance.”
— Kate Hampton, Coach

“Life-changing concepts, presented in clear, precise language with practical exercises to use for life. Your nervous system will thank you.”
— Sharni Cohen, Psychologist

“Jax’s teachings are clear, grounded, and deeply beneficial. All parents and teenagers should be taught this course.”
— Miriam Hechtman, Creative Director

About Jax

Jax Wechsler is a trauma-informed facilitator, educator, designer, and coach with more than twenty years’ experience supporting meaningful change in workplaces, communities, and social systems.

Her work weaves neuroscience, somatics, trauma-aware practice, and systems thinking with a deep respect for human complexity. She teaches trauma-informed practice and nervous system literacy across sectors, and is co-founder of the School of Being — a learning initiative exploring inner development for outer change.

Jax also leads Social Design Sydney, a community of practice focused on social and systemic innovation. She is completing ICF accreditation in Systemic Coaching to deepen her work in inner leadership for complex times.