Our nervous system and resilience

   What is The reflection of a person in a broken mirror. We can feel shattered by the effect of pressure on our nervous system.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 withA picture illustrating the human's nervous system throughout the body 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.

Our nervous system and resilience

   What is The reflection of a person in a broken mirror. We can feel shattered by the effect of pressure on our nervous system.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 withA picture illustrating the human's nervous system throughout the body 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 Tuesday in April and May from 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 17 April.

Our nervous system and resilience

What is

   What is The reflection of a person in a broken mirror. We can feel shattered by the effect of pressure on our nervous system.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 withA picture illustrating the human's nervous system throughout the body 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 Wednesday in March from 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 18:00 on 7 March.

Reacting or responding?

Close up of brain networks that can help us respond instead of reactingDo 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.
There will be an opportunity to practice the regulating exercises so that they are available to you when you need them…

This is one of the sessions in our new offering “Pick ‘n Mix stress management”. More details here. We would like to put the power back into your hands and give you agency to tailor-make a stress management package that really works for you. Every Wednesday in October from 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.

Email contact@tt-tt.co.za to book your place by 18:00 on 22 November.

Regulating your autonomic nervous system

In our recent video series #relaxinseconds, we focused on exercises that calm an over-stimulated sympathetic nervous system. Regulation of our autonomic nervous systems is a little more complicated than that.

The sympathetic nervous system is often in the limelight because of its well known fight, flight or freeze response. The other part, the parasympathetic, which is responsible for rest and digestion, can also unhealthily dominate our nervous system. This can become evident in lethargy, a lack of motivation, a general blahness about life, or wanting to sleep excessively. The pandemic style of stressful experiences like isolation, grief and uncertainty has meant that the parasympathetic extreme has become familiar territory to many of us.

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