Creating space between the stimulus & our response.

This was the overarching aim for the Becoming Nervous System, Trauma & Neurodivergent Informed training I delivered at Chalice Well Trust in Glastonbury.

In the space between stimulus & response, according to Victor Frankl, is our GROWTH & FREEDOM.

In the space there is a CHOICE ...

to react or to respond
to repeat or to repair
to be unconscious or conscious

to be extractive & dominating or reciprocal & relational
to move from I to we
to consider logic AND emotions & sensations

to choose who we want to be as a collective
to be humane & humanitarian & value diversity
to tend to our survival responses & regulation

Becoming a Nervous System, Trauma & Neurodivergent Informed organisation means ...

CHOOSING - to become educated about:
bodymind & it's diversity
the nervous system & how bodies respond to stressors
how to create space between stimulus & response

ENGAGING - individually & organisationally:
in space creating practices, resourcing & engaging in change-agency & evolution

EMBODYING - individually & as leaders:
regulation, co regulation & conscious, holistic, responsive relating.

#educateevolveembody #embodiededucation

​"To access joy, I had to liberate my body from societal conditioning and ‘normative’ ways of being. The expectation to move in a certain way, communicate only through words, and suppress my natural rhythms created a disconnection within me.

I had to unlearn the belief that valid expression is only verbal or logical.

I had to disengage from the world of should and analysis—the rigid frameworks that had kept me constrained—and step fully into felt experience, my instinct, intuition, and hyper-sensory aliveness.

It was only in doing this that I could reclaim the joy that had always been waiting beneath the surface."

Read the latest @ndconnectionuk blog 'My Embodied Experience of Autistic Joy' in full here 👉 https://ndconnection.co.uk/blog/autistic-joy-embodied

#neurodiversitycelebrationweek #embodied @neurodiversityweek #joy

#educateevolveembody #embodiededucation #embodimentspirituality #inandthrough #fleshyknowing

Three months of full time work in the mind-dominant structures & institutions of the ordinary middle world is taking its toll on my energy, body & nervous system.

Top down processing & expression is not my natural way of being. I feel the escalating dysregulation from the pace, constant demand to internally translate, monitor & mask to be seen and heard.

Burnout creeps in.

Like many others, my embodied & creative (heart-led, soul-led & relational) way of being in the world, bottom up processing (intuitive, informed by felt-sense which speaks the language of the body - it's sensations, feelings, emotions) is, at best, simply either misunderstood or considered of no worth & at worst, is pathologised, in the materialist, neoliberal & rationalist systems.

What to do? I don't want to dissociate or bypass.

Accept what is. Care for my body & nervous system. Feed my Soul. Lean into non verbal, creative, symbolic ritual & expression (like I did yesterday at New Moon ... see post pic & if you didn't know my creative & spiritual work before Neurodivergent advocacy check out my published books, link in bio & website). Be the bridge.

Collaborate. Co-produce. Coparticipate. There's absolutely no way survival is an individual endeavour.

Understanding difference & diversity of the human bodymind & the union of mind, body & the nonmaterial (however defined) is integral to restoring wellness.

#educateevolveembody #embodiededucation #embodimentspirituality #inandthrough #fleshyknowing #education #healthcare #neuroinclusion #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #bodymind #mindbodyspirit #mindbodysoul