Reclaiming Our Wisdom: Engaging with Our Emotions and Nervous Systems is a workshop mini-series from Elissa Sloan Perry and Alison Lin with hands-on practices, guided reflections, and learning resources designed to support liberatory leadership, collective care, and embodied choice. This series is part of a forthcoming organizational culture and development training series from Ananda Valenzuela, a former Change Elemental Governance Team member (sign up for Ananda’s newsletter updates to learn more about the full curriculum).
Reclaiming Our Wisdom invites us to reconnect with the intelligence of our bodies, emotions, and nervous systems—not as a form of self-improvement, but as a practice of liberation. Rather than adjusting ourselves to harmful systems, this offering centers inner work as a pathway to presence and transformation. The practices here support moving through intensity without abandoning ourselves or harming others, while staying rooted in choice, dignity, and relationship.
This work is grounded in Neurosomatic Intelligence (NSI), the Four Emotions framework, and long-standing cultural and communal practices that honor multiple ways of knowing. We invite you to try them out!
This workshop mini-series guides us to:
- Be more in touch with the liberating practices of embracing our emotions and reclaiming our bodies.
- Deepen your ability to perceive new possibilities and create ways forward by:
- Listening to and learning from the wisdom of your body and emotions—grounding in presence (or not) so your choices arise with clarity and intention.
- Engaging your nervous system in ways that expand your sense of choice—so you can make moves, pivots, and leaps with greater agency and discernment.
This offering includes:
- Three Recordings: A dive into how we understand and listen to our emotions, bodies, and nervous systems, as well as guided reflective practices to connect to them as a liberating practice, including engaging our nervous systems in conflict and complexity.
- Handout: Reclaiming Our Wisdom: Engaging with Our Emotions and Nervous Systems
