What is 
the connection between our nervous system and resilience? How does our nervous system react when we are under pressure? Pressure can come from different sources – unpredictable natural disasters, personal challenges or living in an oppressive system. Recent natural disasters include the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria or the floods in many parts of South Africa. At some stage we will all experience the personal challenges of illness, accidents, financial constraints, work stress, relational strain and death of a loved one. Discrimination, incompetence, neglect, conflicts or violence in a system will prevent the flourishing of all. Some people experience pressure from all areas at the same time. Can we be more prepared?
the connection between our nervous system and resilience? How does our nervous system react when we are under pressure? Pressure can come from different sources – unpredictable natural disasters, personal challenges or living in an oppressive system. Recent natural disasters include the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria or the floods in many parts of South Africa. At some stage we will all experience the personal challenges of illness, accidents, financial constraints, work stress, relational strain and death of a loved one. Discrimination, incompetence, neglect, conflicts or violence in a system will prevent the flourishing of all. Some people experience pressure from all areas at the same time. Can we be more prepared?Can we learn to regulate the effect of pressure on our autonomic nervous system so that we are able to recover with
resilience? This would help us to respond intentionally and creatively rather than reacting automatically. We would have access to more areas in our brains even when we find ourselves under pressure.
resilience? This would help us to respond intentionally and creatively rather than reacting automatically. We would have access to more areas in our brains even when we find ourselves under pressure.We will explore some theory together but spend most of our time on practicing regulating exercises in a relaxed environment. The aim is to make these exercises more easily available to you when you need them…
This is one of the sessions in our offering “Training resilience”. More details here. We will be developing our resilience every second Wednesday from 22 June at 19:30 – 20:45 online. Every session will focus on a different aspect that affects our resilience. Each session will cost R100. You decide what you need and when and whether you would like another session. You give yourself time to apply your learnings, implement change and control the amount of new information you are exposed to. Every month our offering may change slightly. Do check in regularly to see what’s been adjusted.
Email contact@tt-tt.co.za to book your place by 16:00 on 20 June.
Resilience is about our ability to recover more than our ability to endure. Not everyone is born resilient, it is like a muscle that we can strengthen, a skill that we can develop. Should we then be training for resilience?
As we approach the end of the year, we would like to close off well. This poetry dialogue encourages self-reflection and explores our feelings around endings and beginnings. In an ideal world, all endings and beginnings are good, but in the real world, we know life is complex. When we suppress our feelings they can go underground. They can affect us subconsciously and internalize stress into our bodies. They could result in inter-personal explosions that seem to come out of nowhere. However, feelings do not need to be buried. The end of the year is an opportunity for reconnecting with ourselves and others, for closure, so that we can start with a clean slate in 2023.
Do you find yourself reacting rather than responding under stress? We will explore our stressors and how to regulate the effect they have on our autonomic nervous systems. Yes, it is possible! This will help us to respond intentionally and creatively rather than reacting automatically to a stressful situation. We will have access to more areas in our brains even when we find ourselves in stressful situations.
Does the idea of doing a whole day 
Am I controlling time or is time controlling me?! Ticking time increases pressure…
19:30 – 20:45 we will be facilitating a different topic online. You decide what you need and when and whether you would like another session. You give yourself time to apply your learnings, implement change and control the amount of new information you are exposed to. Every month our offering will change slightly. Do check in regularly to see what’s been adjusted. We may also try out a different day of the week.