Soothing and Calming Your Nervous System

What will be covered in this session?

This practical, hands-on session will equip you with 10 powerful techniques to "hack" your vagus nerve, helping to soothe and strengthen your nervous system, increase your resilience, and expand your window of tolerance to life’s ups and downs.

Through a combination of science-based insights and actionable tools, you’ll learn how to regulate your stress response, create emotional balance, and better handle the challenges that come your way.

What you'll gain from this workshop:

1. A deeper understanding of the vagus nerve and its role in regulating your stress response and emotional well-being.

2. 10 practical techniques to "hack" the vagus nerve, soothing and strengthening your nervous system for greater resilience.

3. How to increase your window of tolerance, allowing you to stay calm, centered, and present during life’s ups and downs.

4. Polyvagal Therapy insights to help you regulate your nervous system and foster a sense of safety and connection.

5. Tools to enhance your emotional flexibility, making it easier to bounce back from stress and adapt to change.

Whether you're looking to improve emotional resilience, manage stress more effectively, or create deeper connections with yourself and others, this workshop offers practical tools that will help you navigate life with more calm, strength, and ease.

Your Facilitator, Karen Bradford

Karen Bradford is a Mindfulness Educator and Clinical Hypnotherapist who specialises in stress management and chronic pain Management. Karen is also a Registered Nurse and has over 8 years’ experience as a corporate trainer creating, developing and delivering education and facilitating workshops to professionals.

Karen is qualified in self-compassion mindfulness through the Centre for Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) and has studied extensively ACT (Acceptance Commitment Therapy, a mindfulness-based cognitive therapy). She is also a qualified mentor/coach with HeartMath Institute specialising in building resilience. She has a keen interest in neuroscience and has studied with Dr Sarah McKay from the Neuroscience Academy, Applied Neuroscience and Brain Health course. She also has a Certificate, Diploma and Master Diploma of Clinical Hypnotherapy.

Karen works with people individually or in groups using mindfulness education and therapy as well as clinical hypnotherapy. Karen is passionate about empowering people to acquire the skills needed to reduce stress and suffering, improve life experience and find joy in all that they do.