the thrive project

Somatic Communication Workshops for Parents in the Workplace

Parenting is one of the most rewarding yet demanding roles in life.

Parents are often the first to be effected by pressures in the workplace, due to the other demands on their life, and the effect that holding all of those responsibilities has on their system.

Parents are more likely to experience high or extreme levels of stress, with factors such as finding childcare, and strains on their relationships playing a role in how manageable the stress in their life felt. (source)

While some stress is normal, especially when we are challenging ourselves or working on something new, chronic or regular stress can lead to a range of health difficulties.

The Thrive Project is here to help.

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Our series of somatic communication workshops are designed to support parents in thriving—not just surviving—at work and at home. By tuning into the wisdom of the body, participants will learn to:

✔️ Recognise early signs of stress and prevent burnout.

✔️ Set healthy boundaries and make decisions with confidence.

✔️ Build resilience and regulate their nervous system.

✔️ Enhance workplace relationships through embodied empathy.

✔️ Support their overall health and wellbeing.

The science

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The autonomic nervous system (ANS) plays a large role in maintaining homeostasis, determining the stability and functioning or our necessary bodily functions like breathing, digesting, and healing.

A well regulating and functioning, the ANS helps us to

  • manage stress

  • respond to life appropriately

  • focus

  • feel clear in our decision making

The ANS provides signals that can be experienced through sensation. Examples of sensations are feeling heat in our neck when we’re angry, an open or warm feeling in our chest when we connect with someone we get on with, and a fuzziness in the chest when we’re anxious or apprehensive.

The practice of tuning into these sensations is called interoception. Research has shown that people with good interoceptive awareness are better able to regulate their emotions, cope with stress, and make healthy choices.

the thrive project offers:

✔️ Practical tools to reduce stress and increase vitality.

✔️ Greater self-awareness and emotional regulation.

✔️ Improved workplace relationships and communication.

✔️ A personalized somatic self-care plan to sustain your progress.

the workshops

3 workshops consist of building the foundations of somatic communications, psycho-somatic education and practical how-to practices to work with our bodies to manage stress, make decisions, and thrive.

  • The core and foundational workshop.

    • An introduction to the nervous system & it’s role in stress and health

    • Practices listening to somatic communication

    • ‘How to’s’ for integrating somatic awareness into every day life

    • Understanding the role of boundaries and clarity in conflict resolution, adaptability, team-work and efficiency.

    • Identifying the role of somatic communication in decision making and boundary setting with practical how-to’s for identifying work and personal boundaries, and experiencing assertive decision making.

    • Co-creating a stress management, somatic tool kit

    • Exploring individual resource & how to incorporate that into day-to-day experiences

    • Deepening awareness of somatic communication

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Each workshop runs for 2hrs, for up to 15 employees.

about charlotte

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Charlotte is a certified somatic therapist, with a masters in population health, and a background in child and adolescent mental health research.

She is also a mother, and experienced her own chronic stress as she moved through her early years of motherhood.

Prompted by her own experience, and deep calling to work with others, she is motivated by the intention of sharing the wisdom of mind-body connection with others, especially parents.

She has an ever expanding interest in the role of the nervous system in our day-to-day experiences of life, as well as what emotional and physically healing really means within our bodies.

She is in her flow when holding space for groups of people, and witnessing them come into connection with the wisdom of their bodies.

If you would like to discuss working with Charlotte, please make contact at charlotte@charlottemindel.com or complete the form below