When the Body Comes to Mind

Good question! That was the biggest challenge we had designing this program. Watching the videos and reading the material will put things into your head but won’t provide you with what you need to incorporate the work into your day-to-day living. That’s why we provide you with exercises and a daily practice with each lesson. That is what gets the information from the head . . . to the body . . . and back! We also encourage you to explore the supplementary materials. And don’t forget to let us know how it goes!

Our body holds a lot of information that can help us navigate stress. Because we live in a “heady” culture, we often neglect this useful information, only noticing stress when it’s too late. The great thing is that everything the body provides is very practical and concrete, which makes it easy to use!

That can happen pretty quickly! Most of the exercises will provide you with ​immediate ​feedback as you are doing them, and you can use that awareness in your daily life. In challenging situations it can take a little more practice to use the skills that the exercises are developing. The more deliberate and frequently you find opportunities to practice, the sooner and more profoundly you will notice results.

We do not consider this an “either/or” situation. The skills you develop through this course are the foundation for implementing evidence-based resilience training and burnout prevention strategies, including:

• Awareness: Knowing when you or another is stressed
• Communication: Maintaining open, non-judgemental communication
• Empowerment: Feeling engaged, interested, motivated and effective in your work
• Prioritizing: Knowing what is most important and meaningful to you and being able to act on that
• Control: Having a sense that you are in the driver’s seat
• Balance: Engaging in leisure, social and general non-work activities in addition to your work day.

Unlike other courses, we generally don’t provide tactics, strategies, a list of how-to’s or dos and don’ts. We focus on how you can utilize and maximize the information that’s inherently available to you.