WORKSHOP: How To Care For Your Nervous System w/ Dr. Jess Linick (80 min)

This accessible and engaging information-based workshop will help you learn way more about your nervous system; including in-depth description of the nervous system, how it functions in response to threat, and tips to track and take care of your own nervous system

This workshop is meant to provide you with not only some education, but also practical tools and techniques you can use to work with your own, unique nervous system, particularly during this time of great, global activation.

This seminar will be led by FYF team member, Jess Linick, PHD, SEP

About Dr. Linick

Jess Linick, PhD, SEP, is a clinical psychologist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner®, and lifelong dancer. Since beginning dance classes at the age of 5, Jess has immersed herself a variety of styles (e.g., ballet, tap, jazz, hip-hop, salsa, modern, contemporary), all the while aware of the basic undercurrent in them all – the ability of the body to express through movement what words cannot. Since 2011, Jess has taken her love of movement to the pole, and after taking her first FYF class in 2012, immediately felt at home, relishing in the opportunity to move as she wanted to move, free from the binds of traditional dance classes. To Jess, freestyle movement is more than just “dancing”– it is a way of being in the world, of interacting with space and time; a way of living. Unencumbered, open, and vulnerable, we are invited to harness intuition, follow our inner compass, and express ourselves in ways that ring true for us most clearly.

Jess currently resides in New York City, where she specializes in body-oriented psychotherapy, meditation, and mindfulness practices. She received her PhD from Columbia University, and currently focuses on the provision of trauma-informed psychotherapy within the juvenile justice system.

MATERIALS YOU MAY NEED:

- something to write on and to write with for notes and exercises

- please have this song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhzpxjuwZy0 or https://open.spotify.com/track/3TZwjdclvWt7iPJUnMpgcs?si=6Tlw_J1zQHm1FIPiBNeMNQ) queued up on your phone, computer, or other place so that we can play it together, when the time comes :)