Out of Touch: a Workshop Exploring the Complexities of Touch Experience

OUT OF TOUCH

A Workshop Exploring the Complexities of Touch Experience

Sunday, November 15, 2026
11:00 AM–12:00 PM
Virtual LIVE 60-Minute Workshop
$50 + HST
Includes Digital Workbook Download

This workshop WILL NOT BE RECORDED.

About the Workshop:

Touch is a fundamental part of human connection, yet our relationship with touch can be incredibly complex.

Out of Touch is a trauma-informed exploration of how our nervous system, experiences, needs, preferences, and boundaries shape the way we experience touch.

Together, we’ll build greater awareness around how we give, receive, and experience touch, while exploring regulation, consent, choice, communication, and what happens when we begin to feel ‘touched out’.

This workshop offers space to become more curious about your own relationship with touch, and understand how our historical experiences around touch may have shaped how we relate to it.

Who can Benefit from this Workshop?

• Manual therapists, bodyworkers, and hands-on healthcare providers
• Nurses, physicians, and medical staff
• Personal support workers (PSWs), long-term care staff, and residential care staff
• Personal care professionals, hairstylists, and estheticians
• Support workers and community care providers
• Professional and family caregivers
• Parents of young or high-needs children
• Partners and family members providing ongoing support
• People caring for someone with chronic illness or disability
• High-needs pet owners, animal caregivers, and groomers
• People living with chronic pain, illness, disability, or using medical devices
• Neurodivergent people and those with sensory sensitivities
• People experiencing burnout, overwhelm, or nervous system fatigue
• People whose work involves frequent physical, emotional, or sensory contact and exposure
• People navigating changes in intimacy or affection
• People with confusing, unwanted, unsafe, or violent touch histories
• Anyone who sometimes feels, “I need to get away from everyone” or “I can’t handle any more.”

What We’ll Explore:

● Anatomy of Regulation

Explore how the nervous system shapes how we experience and respond to touch. Learn how touch can support regulation and safety or contribute to activation and withdrawal. Recognize body cues and how awareness helps us understand our responses.

● Touch Spectrum

Explore the spectrum of touch and the many ways it can be experienced. Learn how qualities, preferences, and context can shape what feels supportive, connecting, or unwanted. Consider your own needs and how your relationship with touch can shift over time.

● Attunement Toolkit

Build practical tools for navigating touch with awareness, choice, and intention. Explore consent, boundaries, communication, and ways to recognize your own cues and those of others. Develop strategies to create more responsive, respectful, and attuned experiences of touch.

● Complexities of Touch

Explore how experience, relationships, culture, and context can shape our relationship with touch. Discover why touch can feel comforting in one moment and complicated in another. Develop greater curiosity and understanding around your own unique and evolving experience of touch.

Your Digital Workbook:

Registration includes the Out of Touch digital workbook, designed to compliment the workshop and give you space for reflection, exercises, and continued exploration.

After registering through Humanitix, you’ll receive instructions for accessing your complimentary digital workbook. If you would like to purchase a physical copy of the workbook for an additional $10+HST (plus shipping if unable to pick-up in person), reach out to natalie@dynamicbalance.ca

Virtual Workshop:

This workshop will be held live online via Zoom, and will not be recorded.

Your Zoom access information will be provided with your registration details. Please keep your confirmation email so you can easily access the workshop link on the day of the event.

About Your Facilitator:

Natalie S. Cudney

RMT, DOMP, D.Sc.O, FST

Natalie has a clinical focus in psychosomatic osteopathy, neuro-lymphatic, fascial, and nervous system regulation. Her supportive care emphasizes the restoration of harmony within living systems through a trauma-informed, whole-person, biopsychosocial model of care.

Dynamic Balance
dynamicbalance.ca
@dynamicbalanceosteopathy