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A systems view of biological health

Section 12: Workshops

2 : Online events

Workshops: Contents

I will be running a series of online sessions in 2026/7 going through some basic ideas and simple applied exercises that can be used at any time.

If you are interested in this or future workshops please consider joining my mailing list and/or making a more specific enquiry.

Entry to online events is by registration ONLY, which helps to keep the space more contained.

No need to come to all of them - just come in as you are able. It is in principle better to attend each workshop because I will be teaching and building a set of skills. However, we will re-visit all the principles as we go through the sessions so missing one or two will not be a problem.

Workshops now available for booking!

A Vitalist model of Health - elements of theory
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A series of 1-hour online talks for bodyworkers and psychotherapists interested in how the body adapts and re-organises itself under “stress” (physiological shifts, changes to the priorities the sensory system and to meaning-making / expectation, to movement patterns and musculoskeletal engagement, encapsulation processes, and energy allocation).

A few non-neurological (!) reframes and working models that describe a body-oriented, health-oriented, ecology-oriented (and trauma-informed) way of viewing adaptations of the human nervous system ... With implications for the structure of treatments for trauma - and particularly for dissociation, because an understanding of dissociation (in the context of healthy adaptation) is the key to treatment of pretty well everything that is held by the body-mind.

These talks are clarifications and focussed discussions - largely based on the material presented on my website, and attendance at each comes with a 1-hour CPD certificate.

Format: A series of online (Zoom) 1-hour classes, Wednesdays 7-8pm
Dates: Once every 3 weeks from 28th October 2026 through to 5th May 2027
Cost: £20/class or £120 for the full series
Information: see attendance rules for online workshops
Recordings/transcripts: will not be available, but slides from the presentations will be shared
BOOKING: (see below)

Topics covered:
Unless specifically indicated, all of these are relevant to all forms of body-oriented treatment practice

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  1. 28-Oct-2026: AA Ukhtomsky's research into overwhelm-adaptation. Understanding overwhelm, POTS, Ehlers-Danlos and other epigenetic conditions, CFS, hypersensitivities of all kinds ... and Mitochondria!!
  2. 18-Nov-2026: Recent developments - What PolyVagal Theory gave us and what is replacing it
  3. 09-Dec-2026: Meaning-making and Homeostasis of the sensory system and lived experience : The inner PA. With a nod to Goethe and Iain McGilchrist.
  4. 20-Jan-2026: Biosemiotics/Ecosemiotics - the new science of communication between and inside all Life.
  5. 10-Feb-2027: ... and for something completely different (and probably of interest only to Craniosacral Practitioners) ... Re-framing Sutherland's lesions as a description of flexibility of the entire vault (but not the SBS/SOJ!)
  6. 03-Mar-2027: A re-frame of the window of Tolerance (as a map of calibrated experience) - and its applications.
  7. 24-Mar-2027: Gestalts as Conscious Agents (Subtopic : Why AI has suddenly become so powerful!)
  8. 14-Apr-2027: What is Somatic safety? (incl. the asymmetry of safety and danger) : The inner bodyguard.
  9. 05-May-2027: Varela's Star-duality (Not-One, Not-Two) in practice : biological life, has absolutely nothing to do with Aristotlean duality.
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You can book the whole set of workshops in advance - or pay for one at a time by clicking on the dates above. Bookings have a final deadline 2 hours before each event, after which the doors are closed.
 
Recovering what has been forgotten - self-resourcing as a life-skill

A series of online (Zoom) 1-hour classes
Dates: TBC 2026-7
Cost: £TBC/class or £TBC for the full series Information: see attendance rules for online workshops Recordings: policy TBC


 
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