Anxiety Workshop

It's not something we have to fix, or even aim to get rid of. To be human is to have allll the emotional responses and to be human is to have a nervous system that goes up and down and all around in response to our environment.

Anxiety is the expected outcome when we live in a world that is fast, chaotic, confusing, demanding, expects high standards, high productivity, good results, fitting in, sensory overloaded, information overloaded and full of modern stuff that the brain still hasn't evolved to integrate seamlessly.

Basically? Anxiety is expected, for all our children. And it's because of the world, not because of them. So let's learn to understand it and support them to understand it too. To create relationship with anxiety so we can support it and soothe it.

Timestamps:

Acknowledgment

Intention 01:13

Alli’s bio 2:06

To be human is to experience anxiety 05:27

Survival mode 09:20

The prefrontal cortex + executive functions 11.40

Anxiety in adults vs children 16:02

Anxiety is ‘contagious’ 17:22

The limbic system 20:44

Amygdala 21:52

Sensory + information overwhelm 25:04

The impact of the modern, western world 27:44

Fight, flight, fawn, freeze 30:39

Exercise - identifying challenging behaviours and recognising which survival response they are a byproduct of 39:01

How a baby’s brain develops 42:28

The trigger is not the problem 43:36

Supporting the brain to feel safe 46:17

Music for predictability 47:37

Window of tolerance 50:20

Connectedness 51:26

Using voice 53:29

Planting seeds for love, safety and connectedness 55:25

Shifting the anxiety narrative 57:45

The adolescent brain 59:24

Brains = Behaviours 1:01:29

Supporting children mid meltdown 1:03:20

Alternating through survival responses 1:09:50

Co-regulation and connection to self 1:11:26

How to plant seeds for regulation 1:13:57

Co regulating with you right now! 1:17:31

The importance of ‘Doing’ 1:18:58

Closing 1:20:00