Are you interested in working with Autonomics professionally?
This note will be of specific relevance for the relatively small percentage of you who are involved in (or interested in) doing autonomics work professionally. This could mean that you are a wellness professional of some kind looking to more systematically integrate or center an autonomic lens into your practice, or that you are a life or wellness or executive coach wanting to do the same thing.
I am teaching two classes live next autumn. One of them is a semester-long deep dive into the new foundation model of General Autonomics that we’ve been writing about on this Substack. We’ve been working on this for 30 years. It was finally successfully reduced to practice in June 2024.
For the past several years, I have taught a graduate level seminar in both the spring and fall semesters. This Autumn, I will be teaching the foundation model seminar with three of our faculty-in-training.
The class meets weekly for 90 to 120 minutes on Tuesday mornings (7-8:30 am PDT). Our cohort is limited to 12 participants. The present cohort is highly trans- disciplinary, diverse, and somewhat international.
The seminar is VERY HIGHLY EXPERIENTIAL. It would be a good place for you to continue your education in autonomics if
You are an experiential learner, and you want to FEEL what we are describing as much as understand it cognitively and conceptually
You are very serious about rigorously developing an understanding of these systems in vivo
You are wanting to integrate an autonomics framework more rigorously in your work praxis, whatever that is
You are looking for a community of colleagues to continue to feel and think into this work with.
Previous participants in the seminar have called it life-changing. I’ll let them speak for themselves here.
The seminar is by application. It will fill, and we will have a waiting list. We’re hoping to complete initial registrations by early July, so if this is something you’re interested in, please put in an application. Just to say it up front, this is one of the primary ways that I feed my family, and we are unable therefore to offer scholarships. The course is $3500. It is expensive. It is an investment. And you’ll be hard-pressed to find a deeper, more experiential, more integrated, more transformative seminar in this material anywhere in the world. It is also the pre-requisite to our 2-year practicum training.
Our autonomic physiology seminar was, and I say these words with potency, an altogether grounding reorientation of my connection to Self and my Environment which manifested itself during a period of deep and painful metabolization of emotions and nervous system states which were previously unexperienced by my physical body. Not only was it meaningful for me, but it was in fact quite necessary for me in order to remain acutely conscious, observant, and attentive to the ways in which connection and safety desired to show up for me in a life context/situation which seemingly provided very little. In this way, it meant a great deal to me - and as I've always felt, known, and seen, this connected world knows the confluences of support, required growth and stretch, invitations to expansions and safeties in contraction much better than I am necessarily consciously aware. This course provided the banks and power charge to a river of insight, of revelation, and of reorientation.
Personally, it allowed me to apply grounded theoretical learning to the movement of energy within my own body and community. In turn, it contextualized the physiological requirement of containing, of holding, and of relating in a way that illuminates the beautiful symbiosis between our unconscious lives and our automated physiology. This course brought phenomenal clarity, with neurophysiological acuity and with revelational attributes, to the relationships between my own fields of study - restoration, creative expression, conflict dissolution and contextualization, and the general notion that in fact all of these fields are not separate at all.
-J. Ariel Guy, Counselor, Conflict Consultant, Artist & Mental Health Educator (presently residing in Tel Aviv)
