Understanding your nervous system : A Path to Greater Connection, Creativity & Wellbeing

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.

This interactive online workshop introduces Polyvagal Theory, a powerful framework for understanding and regulating your nervous system. By learning how your nervous system responds to stress and safety, you’ll gain practical techniques to cultivate resilience, enhance creativity, and strengthen relationships—at work and beyond.

At the heart of this work is enhancing our response-ability—our capacity to respond rather than react in each moment. When we work with our nervous system instead of against it, we create the conditions for greater choice, clarity, and adaptability, allowing us to meet challenges, relationships, and creative opportunities with more ease and presence.

Why This Matters

A regulated nervous system is foundational for:
✨ Creativity – the ability to imagine and innovate amidst uncertainty.
✨ Collaboration – the capacity to connect, co-regulate, and engage with others.
✨ Good decision-making – accessing clarity and wisdom rather than reacting from stress.
✨ Response-ability – our ability to respond rather than react to challenges.
✨ Sustaining our care – staying engaged with the world’s challenges without burning out.

This session is for leaders, creatives, facilitators, change-makers, and professionals who want to cultivate resilience, presence, and response-ability in the face of increasing complexity.

What You’ll Gain

✅ Understand the core states of your nervous system
Explore how your nervous system moves between connection (ventral vagal), fight/flight (sympathetic), and shutdown (dorsal vagal)—and why this matters for communication, collaboration, and wellbeing.

✅ Recognise your personal nervous system patterns
Identify your unique stress responses and develop self-awareness and self-compassion for how your nervous system navigates daily challenges.

✅ Practice simple, effective regulation techniques
Engage in interactive exercises that help shift your nervous system toward balance—practices you can use in real-time to support resilience, focus, and creativity.

✅ Enhance your response-ability
Learn how to work with your nervous system rather than against it, so you can respond intentionally instead of reacting from stress or overwhelm.

✅ Rethink self-care through a nervous system lens
Self-care isn’t just about relaxation—it’s about sustaining yourself in a way that helps you stay present, engaged, and effective without depleting yourself.

✅ Workbook with reflective somatic exercises
Receive a workbook with guided exercises to continue your learning and integration beyond the session.

How to join

This is a live online session with interactive elements. A link to the session and access details will be sent after registration.
Spaces are limited. Register today to embark on a journey toward greater connection, creativity, and wellbeing.

Check out other available dates for this course or get in touch if you’d like to run this training for your team or be notified about future sessions.
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Testimonials

"I found the class useful and insightful. It left me pondering the implications for work and relationship over the next few days. Also explained the window of tolerance to my 7 yr old daughter the next day. Made perfect sense to her. She called hypoarousal her 'hiding' state."
- Dan Gooden

"Thanks for the session, Jax.
Your passion for this topic is obvious. I love all of the activities in the Practice Library. Here's to widening the 'window of tolerance'."
- Kate Hampton
"Jax presents life changing concepts in clear, precise language, with practical exercises to take home and use for life! Your nervous system will appreciate you, for investing an hour and a half of your time, for a lifetime of insight and additional awareness to give you greater control and acceptance of yourself, relationships and life's challenges." - Sharni Cohen, Psychologist

“Jax has a deep understanding and curiosity about how we operate in today’s busy, often stressful environment. Her teachings are clear, concise and deeply beneficial for our individual nervous systems and more broadly, our communal lives. All parents and teenagers should be taught this course.” – Miriam Hechtman, Creative Director

About Jax Wechsler

Jax is a trauma-informed facilitator, designer, educator, and coach dedicated to fostering wellbeing and meaningful change in workplaces, communities, and beyond. With two decades of experience in social innovation, she teaches trauma-informed practices to organisations, helping professionals cultivate safety, empathy, and connection in their work.

She is the co-founder of the School of Being, an experiential learning initiative supporting inner wellbeing for outer change, blending neuroscience, somatics, Polyvagal Theory, and earth-based spirituality. She also leads Social Design Sydney, a community of practice focused on social and systems change.

Jax teaches Trauma-Informed Design, Innovation, and Wellbeing at universities and organisations. She is currently completing ICF accreditation in Systemic Coaching, deepening her focus on inner leadership for complex systems change.

Based on Yuin Country, Jervis Bay, Australia, Jax draws inspiration from the natural world in her approach to wellbeing, leadership, and transformation.

Organisations Jax Has Delivered Related Trainings To:

✅ Fire to Flourish – Monash Sustainable Development Institute (MSDI)
✅ Beyond Blue
✅ Deloitte Digital
✅ Westpac Group (CX Team)
✅ PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)