We live in high pressure times! Join me on a journey into anxiety, stress, anger, sex /relations and social fracture (how we turn against each other).
These are usually treated as separate issues, but we’ll explore fresh approaches to understanding, and relieving, each of these through seeing them as distinct arenas of pressure response.
We learn that our behaviour - physical, emotional and mental - is some kind of moral movement as we grow. We then learn to judge ourselves and others based on how morally/socially acceptable ours is. But what if there was no morality, or pathology, in behaviour? What if it was ALL pressure regulation responses?
From the worst power abuses to the most convoluted passive aggressions, to the ‘mental safety story loops’ we create to navigate the world. What if all of them were different ways of coping with, and avoiding, pressure?
But what if it were also true that our entire form is literally built to process and transform pressure, when we only learned to ‘hold it’ or ‘vent it’?
Join me as we explore the new perspective of Human Pressure Dynamics where we see that all our categorisations of behaviour - mental, emotional and physical - are all pressure responses. We learn to mis-direct and ‘side-vent’ pressure to avoid its natural flows and regulations, when we are literally built on all sides to process it effectively.
During this day, we look at common pressure mis-management loops and their consequences, as well as how to seek to restore the natural movement and processing of each pressure type.
The breeze on your skin? Just air pressure with a fancy name.
Your chest lifting as you smile with an inhale of sweet spring air? Just air pressure keeping you alive.
Your heart pulsing to maintain the blood pressure to keep you going… we even call this one ‘pressure’
The sense you need to do something to pay the bills? Financial pressure coupled with temporal pressures.
The feeling that you have to appear ‘just so’ and behave ‘thus’ for acceptance? Social pressure, woven into our social fabric.
The silences, distance and hardness that grow in relationships? Unprocessed mental and emotional pressure… where holding it causes us to withdraw connection and aliveness.
The feeling you have to DO Something about all these overlapping pressures! Meta Pressure…. the worst of them all!
The sense of helplessness at big change in the world? meta pressure building
In this day you will leave with -
A different way to look at each of anxiety, stress, anger, sex and social fracture, with specific tools and perspectives to manage and relieve each.
A practical technique to bring instant relief and reset whenever you feel overwhelmed
An entirely new way to see human behaviour through the lens of pressure that can alleviate shame, guilt, moralising and pathologising, while delivering compassion, insight and an opportunity to break out of long-standing ‘pressure (mis-)management loops’
Cost : £60
Bring lunch as its a semi-remote location outside Bath, alternatively, there will be time to get lunch off-site. Drink refreshments will be provided.
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