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.
Why nervous system literacy?
This isn’t a personal failure. It’s how the nervous system responds to chronic stress.
In today’s fast-paced, complex world, many people are:
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.
Science-based, practices and tools to support nervous system awareness
Evidence-based and embodied
This training program offers science-informed, practices and tools to support nervous system awareness and regulation in work and life.
- Learn to recognise and map different nervous system states
- Understand the basics of Polyvagal Theory (in plain language)
- Use self- and co-regulation practices in real time
- Interrupt reactive loops and respond with more care
- Apply nervous system insights to creativity, collaboration and wellbeing
Inner awareness provides a powerful foundation for future ready leaders and teams.
Nervous system literacy helps to:
Nervous system literacy fosters calm, resilience, and awareness, enabling clearer decisions, stronger relationships, and greater creativity in work, leadership, and everyday life.
- Understand physiological responses (fight, flight, freeze, fawn)
- Shift from survival mode to a state of calm awareness
- Build capacity for self-regulation, co-regulation, and resilience
So that they can…
- Make clearer decisions
- Sustain stronger relationships
- Enjoy more creativity and collaboration
“If there’s one thing to invest in this year, it’s this.”
— Nataliya Senytsya, Strategic Service Designer
For people working in change
This offering is for individuals and teams who want to navigate challenge with greater, adaptability, and relational depth including:
- Leaders navigating emotional intensity or uncertainty
- Creatives, designers and facilitators working in complex systems
- Teams seeking to grow resilience, trust, and nervous system literacy together
- Anyone curious about a more embodied approach to stress and self-awareness
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Nervous System Literacy
Understand Your Nervous System A practical 2-hour online class for changemakers, facilitators, coaches, educators, care providers, and teams. Most of
A practical tool to support your nervous system
Want to begin with a gentle self-reflection tool?
Download our free guide: The Autonomic Compass™
Build awareness. Shift state. Grow your response-ability.
Nervous system literacy thinking
Jax is currently writing a book called ‘Nervous System Literacy for Changemakers’.
Read some of her 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.
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