Get Out Of Your Head: From Shut Down to Intimacy

How the immobilization response of our nervous system leads to emotional numbing, over intellectualisation and makes intimacy so damn hard. In this workshop, Roger Jackson, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, body worker, international teacher and self-confessed numbed out intellectual will guide us on a journey of self-reflection about how trauma responses can lead us to shut down states and the effect that can have on our capacity for intimacy. Touching on the science of The Polyvagal Theory, this workshop is designed to help us recognise when we are in a shutdown state and offers practical tips about how to get out of that state, how to get in contact with ourselves, our needs, our feelings and how to create intimacy with ourselves and with others.