Description
Mapping What Lives Within is a three-session online workshop designed to support participants in developing a lived, embodied understanding of how their nervous systems respond to safety, stress, and activation.
Over three 2-hour sessions, participants explore the Window of Tolerance as a framework for understanding how regulation and dysregulation manifest in the body, emotions, thinking, relationships, and daily life.
Rather than offering a set of quick tools or surface-level coping strategies, this workshop invites you to slow down and engage with your nervous system with curiosity and compassion. With us, you will explore:
- How your nervous system moves between states of regulation, hypoarousal (e.g., shutdown or collapse), and hyperarousal (e.g., agitation or flood).
- The physical, emotional, cognitive, relational, and somatic patterns that emerge when you are triggered.
- The internal and external resources that support grounding, regulation, and resilience.
Through reflective mapping exercises, psychoeducation, somatic practices, and guided discovery, participants gain clarity and self-awareness, increasing their capacity to notice early signs of activation and respond with care rather than judgment.
This workshop focuses on understanding how you function rather than “fixing” or suppressing responses, offering a compassionate, person-centred framework to make sense of your experience and increase your agency in responding to life’s challenges.
Who This Workshop Is For
This workshop is for individuals who:
- Want to deepen their nervous system awareness rather than rely solely on coping techniques.
- Are curious about understanding their triggers, reactions, and patterns rather than avoiding them.
- Desire a compassionate, structured, and reflective space to explore their inner experience.
- Seek clarity about how their nervous system responds in relationships, stress, and daily challenges.
No specialized background or previous training is required.
What You’ll Explore
Participants will engage in:
- An accessible introduction to the Window of Tolerance and its practical meaning
- Guided exercises to understand hypoarousal and hyperarousal
- Mapping work in five dimensions: body, emotions, thoughts, spirit, and relationships
- Somatic practices that support embodied reflection and regulation
- Time for reflection, journaling, and integration between sessions
Why This Workshop Is Different
Rather than teaching surface-level strategies, this workshop supports you in understanding the architecture of your nervous system responses, including:
- The triggers that move you out of regulation
- The patterns your system uses to protect you
- The resources that support grounding and recovery
This is not about suppressing reactions — it’s about making sense of your inner experience with curiosity, clarity, and compassion.
Format
- Online — live sessions via Zoom
- 3 sessions — each lasting 2 hours
- Small group setting
Date and Time:
Dates to be announced soon. If you feel drawn to this workshop, you’re warmly invited to email ale@healinganger.ca to let us know. We will reach out as soon as we have the dates available.
Total: 6 hours (3x 2-hour sessions)
Facilitators:
Alejandra Proaño, MA (C.Psy); MSc; MA (Lit); RCC
Daniela Wladislawoski London, MA C.Psy, MA, RCC
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$345.00 CAD (tax exempt)
If you have any questions, please email us at info@healinganger.ca
RCC’s are not GST chargeable.
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Hear from past participants
“Extremely pleased with this workshop. It has helped me understand how anger works over your mind and body, and this has helped me deal and overcome other emotions like anxiety. Learning and sharing with other women, whom I call friends now, makes all the difference in healing.”
“Being able to open my heart and feel vulnerable was a wonderful experience, those weeks made me see things from another perspective. Learn to recognize my pain and heal, I learned how to clean my heart and I am doing it in my daily life. They gave me the tools to manage my anger which I understood that it is not bad to feel anger on the contrary it is good when you use/feel it in an appropriate way. Listening to other women with traumas/experiences similar to mine was a great help and being able to vent in a safe environment free of judgment.”
“This workshop is a heartwarming & wonderful process. It’s not often you find opportunities to share such vulnerability with others as well as have such helpful feedback amidst learning. The instruction and guidance of Alejandra is both very practical as well as atuned and compassionate. She is very dialed in to the concerns of you as the participant in your anger but also you as a valid human-being with your own story. A story that has informed the emotional landscape leading to your current relationship with anger. This workshop offers many perspectives on anger as well as ways to act/or not react while experiencing it.”
“I had a wonderful experience with this team. I have taken several courses with them, and they have always been beneficial. I know that I got a lot out of the groups and I am so glad I enrolled.”
