From Reactive to Responsive with Samantha White

Many of us have an inner voice that's like a smarty-pants mean girl, who tells us we're not enough and we're doing it wrong. Neuroscience calls this the Default Mode Network. It's our brain's best attempt to keep us safe by enforcing beliefs that were formed early, in order to help us belong in our family system. Those critical monologues make it difficult for our nervous system to calm. Our default setting can become anxious and reactive.

In the first 3-hour workshop, we will make friends with the brain's Default Mode Network. We can update old survival strategies by teaching that harsh inner voice a new way of speaking to us. We will explore how empathetic enquiry and precise language tell the brain we are safe, we are seen, we are welcome. Our nervous system can relax. Our brain becomes a happier place to live.

In the second 3-hour workshop,…