At the end of 2025, did you feel stretched?
Start 2026 on the right foot.
This isn’t just wellbeing work. It’s future-making work.
Many of us start the year already stretched. We carry the pace, stress and expectations of the year before straight into what comes next, without ever pausing to notice what we actually need.
A Grounded Start is a gentle, practical 90-minute online workshop designed to help you pause, settle and orient yourself for the year ahead. Not through motivation or resolutions, but through nervous system awareness, embodied practices and clear reflection.
If you’re wanting a year that feels steadier, more spacious and more aligned with how you want to live and work, this session is for you.
Why this matters now
When the nervous system is overloaded, our capacity narrows.
Thinking becomes foggy. Creativity is harder to access. Decisions take more effort. We react more than we choose.
A grounded nervous system supports clarity, presence and wiser responses. It allows us to meet complexity with more steadiness and care.
This workshop offers a practical reset.
A moment to land, breathe, reconnect with yourself and gently expand your capacity for the year ahead.
What an overwhelmed nervous system can feel like
Stuck in reactivity, not presence
Stress reduces clarity and focus. We help restore calm, awareness, and intentional action.
Burning out, unable to recover
Prevent burnout with practical tools to sustain energy, build resilience, and maintain performance.
Struggling to connect with others under pressure
Strengthen trust, empathy, and teamwork skills to stay connected under challenging conditions.
Who this is for
This workshop is for anyone wanting to begin the year feeling more grounded and resourced, including:
- Practitioners, facilitators and designers
- Leaders, educators and change-makers
- Carers and parents
- Anyone seeking a more sustainable pace in life and work
No prior knowledge is needed. Just bring yourself.
Some practical tools to support you to work more sustainably
Somatic practices for resilience
Download our free guide: Growing Response-Ability:
Somatic Practices for Resilience
What to expect
This is not a motivational talk or a list of resolutions.
It’s a calm, evidence-informed session designed to give you tools you can use immediately in life and work.
You'll be guided through
- Simple nervous system practices to help you settle and regulate
- Work-friendly grounding techniques you can return to throughout the year
- Reflective prompts to support clarity and intention
- A guided Capacity Map to help you understand what nourishes you, what drains you, and what supports your wellbeing and creativity
The session is spacious, practical and supportive. No jargon. No overwhelm.
What you’ll walk away with
By the end of the workshop, you’ll have:
- Understanding of how your nervous system influences your energy, focus and capacity
- Practical tools to support steadiness in moments of pressure or change
- Personalised Capacity Map, a reference you can return to throughout the year
- Grounded clarity about how you want to move through the year ahead
- A sense of connection and shared humanity, because we regulate better together
Your investment
Only $30 + GST
Includes the live workshop and a downloadable handout with practices and prompts.
“More than self-care ... a practice for collective creativity and response-ability.”
— Kylie Wrigley, Climate Activist & Community Organiser
Facilitated by Jax Wechsler
I’m Jax Wechsler, a trauma-informed strategic designer, coach and educator working with nervous system literacy, somatic practices and inside-out change.
I’ve spent many years working in social and systems change spaces, where care, complexity and urgency often collide. I’m no stranger to burnout, and this work has grown from both professional practice and lived experience.
My approach supports wellbeing, presence and sustainable capacity — helping people and teams meet change in ways that are grounded, relational and life-giving, rather than depleting.
Our change partners
Testimonials
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Team Training
A Grounded Start is also available as a tailored session for teams and organisations.
If you’re interested in supporting your team to begin the year with more clarity, steadiness and sustainable rhythm
Leave us a message or book a Discovery Call
Join Us
Give yourself the gift of a grounded beginning.
You’ll leave with more capacity, clearer awareness and a practical map to support how you move through the year ahead.
A Grounded Start to 2026
A Grounded Start to 2026 Skills, practices and clarity for a more sustainable year Begin the year with more capacity,
A Grounded Start to 2026
A Grounded Start to 2026 Skills, practices and clarity for a more sustainable year Begin the year with more capacity,
“...feels like a vital piece of the puzzle for navigating life in these times....
I’m already using the strategies”
— Hilary Davies
Nervous system literacy thinking
Read some of Jax’s thinking on the Cocreate Change blog.
Why design teams are overwhelmed
Most teams I work with tell me a similar story. There is too much to do and not enough time
Why nervous system literacy matters in a complex world
We are living in a time that asks a lot from us. The pace is fast. The pressure is constant.
