8 Week Online Course - Live & Self Led
Connecting Nervous System-First
Work relationships can be some of the most meaningful, and the most challenging, parts of our lives. Whether you're collaborating, navigating complex dynamics or leading, how you relate at work shapes how things get done, how you feel, and what becomes possible.
You might be dealing with unclear communication, power dynamics, feedback that stings, constant urgency, or teammates who seem checked out, or too intense. You might be masking how you really feel just to keep things moving, or holding back because speaking up feels risky. Maybe you're trying to stay kind, but it's costing you energy. Maybe you've stopped trying.
These challenges are more than just “personality clashes.”
They’re nervous system patterns - yours and others' - playing out in real time.
This 8 week course helps you understand what’s actually happening beneath the surface in internal and external workplace dynamics.
You’ll learn tools to stay connected to your own steadiness and boundaries, even when others are stressed, unclear, or reactive, so that you can build trust and relate in ways that feel both effective and human. Not to fix people, but to feel more choice in how you relate and what you can create together.
Connecting is not about pushing harder or fixing people, its about finding more choice in how you relate and what you can create together.
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This course might be for you if:
- You work in a fast paced or high pressure environment and want your relationships to grow without constant stress or strain.
- You care about doing meaningful work, but not at the expense of your wellbeing or relationships.
- You want to feel more like yourself at work, less performative, masked and more at ease in how you relate.
- You sometimes find interactions confusing, draining or overwhelming and want practical ways to stay steady and responsive.
Overview
What you'll explore and gain:
A growing capacity to stay clear, calm and effective in high-pressure or emotionally charged work situations.
Improved collaboration and communication through better self-awareness and relational intelligence.
A deeper sense of connection, not just with others but with your own clarity and values
A reduction in stress and improved recovery — leading to more capacity and sustainable performance.
A framework to work more intentionally and avoid reactive patterns that can derail conversations or projects.
materials & Sessions
How it Works
8 immersive live online learning sessions over 8 weeks - 10am - 12pm (UK) — designed for deep exploration and skill-building.
8 weeks of guided practice — integrating what you learn into daily life with daily micro reflections and coaching built around your schedule.
A supportive online community space —
so you can continue growing with like-minded peers.
agenda
Live Training Day Content
Our programmes work through a 4 step structure. Becoming Aware of your nervous systems, learning to Respond to them, Relating to each other and consciously Creating your work and shaping your workplace with your nervous system. This course spends two weeks on each step.
Aware - What Drives Connection & Disconnection
Get to know how your nervous system shapes your sense of safety, connection, and threat in everyday interactions. This foundation helps you meet yourself with more understanding and opens the door to more conscious connection with others.
Aware - Learning to Observe
Start to notice how different nervous system states like calm, stress, or shutdown show up in your body, thoughts, and patterns at work. You’ll explore gentle ways to recognise these shifts without judgment or urgency to change.
Respond - Supporting your Nervous System
We all move through moments that feel hard to navigate. This week, you’ll learn to notice
what your system needs during stress or disconnection and explore practices to support yourself from the inside out—with consistency, not intensity.
Respond - Preparing for Connection
This week continues to embed the practice of supporting your system. Explore more tools and practices that help you return to steadiness throughout your workday. You’ll try out options like movement, breath work and guided visualisations to discover what works for your system in real time.
Relate - Understanding Others
With more awareness of your own system, you’ll begin to see how others’ nervous systems show up in your interactions. You’ll learn to see
difficult conversations
in an entirely new light and how relational dynamics are shaped by shared patterns of regulation or stress. This is a practical experience.
Relate - Supporting Others
This week focuses on co-regulation, how we support connection and steadiness with others while staying grounded in ourselves. You’ll explore what actually creates
trust
and
psychological
safety.
You will be encouraged to practice techniques and implement learnings.
Create from Steadiness
When your system feels steady, new possibilities emerge. This week, you’ll explore how finding your balanced state can support
creating change,
managing up, motivation levels, performance without burning out. You don’t need to be “perfectly regulated” - just aware of what helps you access your own clarity and momentum.
Create from Capacity
In this final week, we’ll focus on connection as an ongoing, everyday practice. You’ll reflect on how your way of relating has shifted, what feels more possible now, and how to keep building relationships that are collaborative, clear, and human. You will also use your balanced state to explore your
priorities and purpose.
Approach
How We Structure The Learning
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Who Is This Course For?
If you work with people, whether leading, collaborating, or navigating tricky dynamics internally or externally with clients and key stakeholders - this course is for you. It’s especially supportive for those who want to build stronger, more attuned working relationships.
It can be taken individually or with colleagues. If you join as a team, you'll gain the added benefit of shared language and practices to support connection and resilience at work.
Course Details
Location: Online - Zoom link
Facilitators: Ann de Passos & Kim van Niekerk
Live Sessions on Tuesdays: January 20, 27 - February 3, 10, 17, 24 - March, 3, 10
Live Session Time: 10am - 12pm UK
Fee: £875 or instalments of £175 x 5
If the course fee is keeping you from joining us, please reach out so we can help.
A Note on Self-Exploration
This course encourages you to explore your thoughts, sensations and emotional responses with curiosity and mindfulness. You’ll be offered tools for awareness and resourcing, but we won’t tell you how you should feel or respond. This is your exploration.
Our courses are not therapy, nor a replacement for mental health support. If you’re currently processing trauma, we recommend checking with a therapist to see if this kind of exploration feels like a fit right now.
While some of the practice we use are newly embraced in Western work and wellbeing spaces due to scientific popularity, they are deeply rooted in long-standing, global traditions that honour the body as a source of connection, relationship, insight, and strength.
If you would like more information on the course approach, please get in touch.
Feedback on our courses
Your training really has changed the way I’ve approached everything - thank you so much :)
- B.S.
This was a total game changer!! I'm just about to walk into a meeting and my mindset is so different. Thank you, Kim
- Charlotte Perkin