8 Week Online Course - Live & Self Led
Connecting Nervous System-First
At work, relationships are everything. Whether you're leading a team, navigating feedback, managing upwards, looking for funding or co-creating with a client, the quality of your connection affects the quality of your outcomes.
'This is Connecting' is a guided 8-week journey designed to help you form more grounded, productive and fulfilling connections at work. Not by fixing other people, but by tuning into yourself using your nervous system as a guide and learning to connect from a place of safety, presence and clarity.
Because when you're regulated, you listen differently. Lead differently. Collaborate more deeply. And the world around you tends to respond in kind.
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This course is for you if you:
- Care about impact, but not at the expense of your wellbeing or your relationships
- Want to feel more yourself at work, less masked and more confident in how you show up
- Sometimes find people difficult, confusing or draining and want better tools for staying grounded and effective
- Work in a fast paced environment and you want your relationships to keep up without burning out or breaking down
Overview
What you'll walk away with
Greater self-awareness of how your nervous system responds in different workplace relationships
Tools to stay grounded during hard conversations or challenging dynamics
A deeper sense of connection, not just with others but with your own clarity and values
Stronger, more easeful collaboration with people
A new way of working that feels both powerful and deeply human
materials & Sessions
How it Works
9 immersive live online learning days - 10am - 12pm GMT —designed for deep exploration and skill-building.
9 weeks of guided practice—integrating what you learn into daily life with video tutorials, daily 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
Build Awareness - How We Work
Learn how your autonomic nervous system shapes your experience of safety, connection, and threat. This foundational awareness creates the space for curiosity, kindness, and the first steps toward conscious connection.
Build Awareness - Observing
Through guided exercises, start to identify the different nervous system states (Ventral, Sympathetic, and Dorsal) and how they show up in your body, mind, and relationships.
Respond - Understand Your Flow
This day is about creating safety from the inside out—learning to understand how to work through difficult moments. Listen to your biology with compassion and consistency to discover insights and wisdom.
Respond - Support Your Nervous System
Explore practical techniques to support your nervous system throughout the day. From mindfulness and breathwork to movement and sensory grounding, you’ll discover what brings you back to balance and aliveness.
Relate - Understand Others
As you become more attuned to your own system, you’ll learn how to recognise and respond to the nervous systems of others. Learning what is yours and what is theirs and how we influence each other energetically.
Relate - Support Others
This day focuses on co-regulation—the powerful, reciprocal process of creating safety and connection in relationships. You’ll practice skills for empathetic listening, boundary-setting, and offering support without losing yourself, creating healthier relationship dynamics.
Create from Your Ventral State
Learn how to anchor into your Ventral Vagal state—the biological foundation for creativity, courage, and meaningful action.
Create from Your Ventral State
In the final day, you’ll step into the heart of Nervous System-First connecting: forming relationships that are strong, supportive and inspiring.
Approach
How We Structure The Learning
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Who Is This Course For?
Whether you're leading a team, collaborating with colleagues or navigating complex workplace dynamics, this course is for you. It's ideal for individuals who want to build stronger, more grounded working relationships, and equally powerful when taken with teammates, helping to create a shared language of connection, compassion and nervous system awareness at work.
Course Details
Location: Online - Zoom link
Facilitators: Ann de Passos & Kim van Niekerk
Live Sessions on Tuesdays: 30 Sept | 7, 14, 21, 28 Oct | 4, 11, 18 Nov
Time: 10am - 12pm BST each day
(11am - 1pm CEST)
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 thoughts, sensations and emotions with curiosity and mindfulness.
While it offers tools for self-awareness and growth, it’s not a replacement for therapy. If you're dealing with trauma, we recommend consulting a therapist to ensure this aligns with your journey. Our goal is to provide a supportive space for self-reflection in a group, so please make sure this approach feels right for you before signing up.
While these approaches may be considered cutting-edge in Western personal development, we honour the deeper roots they draw from and long-held wisdom traditions that have always recognised the body as a source of intelligence and connection.
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