The Autonomic Compass
Changing the world, one nervous system at a time
Understanding your nervous system is the first step toward meaningful change
This isn’t just wellbeing work. It’s future-making work.
In today’s rapidly changing world, many of us are navigating heightened stress, uncertainty, and complexity—both in our personal lives and in the systems we engage with. These pressures can lead to burnout, disconnection, and reactive decision-making, making it harder to collaborate, create, and care for what matters most.
Our Nervous System Literacy training offers practical tools to help you recognise and regulate stress responses, fostering resilience and adaptability in both personal and professional settings.
What's inside?
This tool is a gift to help you reconnect with your body, understand your nervous system state, and grow your capacity to respond to life with more clarity, care, and choice.
I call this response-ability — the ability to respond rather than react.
The Autonomic Compass is informed by Polyvagal Theory, trauma-aware design, and embodied practice.
It includes practices to help you: (1) Identify your nervous system state and (2) Recognise adaptive stress responses and move toward regulation.
Use this as a gentle, reflective tool — not to fix, but to befriend your nervous system.
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A practical tool to support your nervous system
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The Autonomic Compass.
Build awareness. Shift state.
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We hope this practice supports you to reconnect with yourself, those around you and the wider systems you’re part of.
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Being with your nervous system in complex times for AU/US/ASIA
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Being with your nervous system in complex times for AU / EU
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Cocreate Change thinking
Read some of our thinking on the Cocreate Change blog.
Nervous systems, regeneration and decolonial practice
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Somatic practice as co‑regulation technology
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Minimum Viable Practice: Caring for Your Nervous System When You’re Over Capacity
People don’t usually need another ideal routine.They already know what they “should” be doing. More sleep. Less doom‑scrolling. Regular movement.
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