For people working in complexity, change and uncertainty.
Creating the inner conditions, to support outer change.
Strengthening capacity to keep showing up, without burning out.
A small, trauma-informed online practice space for people who want to meet pressure, uncertainty, and overload with more steadiness, presence, and choice. Across four live sessions, you’ll learn simple somatic practices to help you stay more connected to yourself and others in the middle of real life and work.
What is it?
Many of us are working inside systems that are demanding, fast-moving, and still shaped by outdated ways of doing things. When the pressure is high, our nervous systems often reorganise around protection and survival, which can make it harder to stay grounded, creative, connected, and responsive.
This practice circle offers a gentle, practical space to slow down and notice what is happening in your system, while building small, repeatable ways to return to more steadiness and support. This is not about fixing yourself or becoming more productive. It is about building the capacity to be with yourself differently in complex times.
Who is it for?
This circle may be a good fit if you:
- Work in complexity, change, care, leadership, facilitation, design, community, or social impact.
- Often hold space for others and want more internal support to do that sustainably.
- Notice overload, tension, shutdown, bracing, or constant “on-ness” in your body.
- Want practical embodied tools, not just more concepts.
- Value a small, relational learning space where you can experiment gently and at your own pace.
What you’ll experience
Across four 75-minute live online sessions, we will:
- Build a simple understanding of how your nervous system responds to stress, safety, and ease.
- Explore common protective patterns such as speeding up, freezing, over-functioning, withdrawing, and people-pleasing.
- Practise small somatic supports you can use in everyday moments, including meetings, conflict, decision-making, facilitation, and rest.
- Reflect on what helps you stay in contact with yourself and others when things feel uncertain or emotionally charged.
- Work with repetition and between-session practice so the learning can become lived.
Understanding your nervous system brings creativity, clarity & relational capacity.
What makes this different?
This is a practice circle, not a one-off workshop. The emphasis is on embodied learning, gentle experimentation, and integration over time. That means you are not just learning about nervous systems intellectually; you are beginning to notice your own patterns and build new responses in ways that are usable in real contexts.
All activities are optional. No prior somatics or trauma training is required, and no one is expected to share more than feels right.
- Leadership teams navigating complexity
- Legal and professional services teams working in high-stakes environments
- Design, research and innovation teams
- Government and community sector teams
- Teams wanting to work with more steadiness, collaboration and care under pressure
Session overview
Session 1 : Arriving: meeting where you are
July 21 (AU)/ July 20 (US)
We begin by arriving where you actually are, not where you think you “should” be.
- A simple, plain‑language orientation to how your body and nervous system responds to stress, safety and ease.
- Guided body‑based reflection to notice what activation, flatness and settling feel like for you right now.
- Map how this links to your real contexts – projects, relationships, care responsibilities, organisational dynamics.
- One simple noticing practice to take into the next couple of weeks.
The aim is not to over‑analyse yourself, but to start recognising the patterns your system is already running.
Session 2 : Protection: patterns that try to keep you safe
Aug 4 (AU)/ Aug 3 (US)
Here we get curious about your protective strategies – without pathologising them.
- Name common protective patterns – speeding up, shutting down, bracing, over‑functioning, people‑pleasing – as understandable ways your system tries to keep you safe.
- Connect these patterns to the systems you move in: meetings, workshops, client work, family life.
- Try a couple of low‑key supports you can use in real time (breath, orientation, micro‑pauses, boundaries) and noticing what actually helps.
- Choose one small, realistic experiment to take into your everyday contexts.
We’re gently widening the gap between “something happens” and “I react”, growing your response‑ability one small moment at a time.
Session 3 : Resourcing: what steadies and restores you
Aug 18 (AU)/ Aug 17 (US)
In this session we turn towards what supports you, not just what drains you.
- Explore what helps your system come back toward steadier ground – people, places, rhythms, practices, stories.
- Map supports you already have (even if under‑used) and gaps that might want attention, without turning it into another list of “shoulds”.
- Practise ways to weave micro‑resourcing into your current days, rather than adding big new routines you’ll abandon in a week.
- Name one or two supports you want to tend, and what might make that feel possible in your context.
Resourcing here is framed as a prerequisite for meaningful work and sustainable leadership, not a luxury add‑on.
Session 4 : Walking with: integrating and choosing next steps
Sept 1 (AU)/ Aug 30 (US)
We close by gathering what you’ve seen and felt, and looking at how you want to walk with your system from here.
- Look back across the previous sessions to see what patterns and experiments are telling you about your current capacity.
- Explore what it might mean, in your particular work and life, to “be with” your experience rather than constantly overriding or pushing through.
- Clarify a few simple agreements with yourself (and maybe others) about how you want to respond, relate, and resource yourself in the coming months.
- Name what you are taking with you from the circle, practices, insights, boundaries, or questions, and what support you might need to keep going.
There may also be an optional integration call later in the year if the group wants to reconnect and ground what you’ve been experimenting with.
Join the circle
The learning circle will be hosted at two time.
Both groups include the same content. You only need to choose the time that suits you best.
Choose your group
Group A : Morning AU, NZ, Asia & US friendly
Time: 8:00–9:15 am AEST, Sydney.
Dates: July 21, Aug 4, Aug 18, Sept 1, (day before in US)
Group B : Evening AU & Europe friendly
Time: 7:00–8:15 pm AEST, Sydney
Dates: July 22, Aug 5, Aug 19, Sept 2
Taught by Jax Wechsler
Jax Wechsler brings over 20 years of experience supporting organisations navigating complexity, uncertainty and change. Over the past five years, her work has focused on nervous system literacy and trauma-informed practice, helping teams build the capacity to stay present, connected and choiceful under real-world demands.
This work draws on long-standing experience in co-design, systems change, facilitation and applied neuroscience to support teams to move from overwhelm to more grounded, choiceful ways of responding.
- 20+ years working across change, design and social impact
- Trauma-informed, nervous-system-aware practice
- Experienced facilitator, educator and systemic designer
When people feel resourced and can regulate themselves, they have more choice in how they respond. That’s where clarity, collaboration and care become possible.
Jax Wechsler, Founder
If your team is navigating complexity and sustained demand, let’s talk.
To explore how this could support your team, get in touch to discuss your context and available dates.
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