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Shake the System: Beyond Emotional Balance

This course will close October 31st, 2018.  Thank you.

When it comes to emotional balance, we have a wealth of tools at our fingertips: Psychotherapy. Exercise. Yoga. Medication—or meditation. And yet, we feel worse than ever. In growing numbers, we suffer from anxiety, depression, and chronic pain. We’re dogged by fatigue, inflammation, and malaise—a persistent feeling of being unwell. We battle constant worry and emotional strain. When nothing seems to work, we often feel hopeless, and blame ourselves for being unwell. We feel isolated, alone, stigmatized.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. A simple, yet critical shift in our mindset can change how we approach well-being and thus, change our lives in profound ways. Changing our mindset, and doing so in community, begins to build a bridge to working better as a system.

In this mini-course, we’ll explore:

  • Our modern mindset on emotional health
  • Where “mental health” happens: the mind and brain’s default mode, how it controls us, and how we can get better control over it
  • Intelligent systems of the body (the gut, nervous system, and connective tissue matrix) and how we can access them
  • Well-being as a systems issue (what this means, and what we can do about it)Practical tools to “shake the system” you’re in

Course Structure

Shaking the System is a mini course offered in “neo-webinar” format.  The course will consist of several mini modules each containing: a video with Bo + Kathryn, supplementary materials (articles, audio clips, hand outs), practice tools, a Lifework assignment, and a discussion prompt in the course forum. Neo-Webinar is a new format we’re experimenting with for this course.  It is a live, unscripted small group discussion and embodiment practice designed to model a new way of learning and stretching our understanding.  You are invited to join the experiment and engage with new concepts along with us.

Lifework assignments are the “homework” of this course, but they are neither on-the-mat practices or assignments you hand in. They are opportunities to shift and challenge mindset and behavior in our daily lives, notice ourselves in action, and reflect with one another.

Course Materials

Course Discussion