Holding Space from a Neuro-Coaching Perspective (Mojca Studen)

In this module, we train the nuances of holding space in threshold situations (overwhelm, freeze/collapse, dissociation, strong regression, paranoia, loss of orientation) and develop therapeutic presence as co-regulation: less content, more regulation; less interpretation, more a safe and stable frame. The core skill is titration—calibrating intensity and proximity—and using the simple axes of orientation–body–relationship as “first responders” in non-ordinary states of consciousness.

We use neuro-coaching as a practical map: how to recognize which brain network is currently dominant (Default/Executive/Salience/Limbic, etc.), and how micro-interventions can support healthier switching between them. A special emphasis is placed on the language of trust: tone of voice, pacing, eye contact, minimalism, clear boundaries, and speaking in invitations rather than assertions.

You will learn how: 

Unique brain-based strategies that will instantly interrupt disturbing feelings and thoughts triggered by painful experiences and past traumatic events.

Discover how easy it is to rebalance the three key brain networks that are essential for maintaining optimal psychological health.

Learn how to turn painful and traumatic experiences into memory traces that you can gently extinguish when you enter into a state of “Relaxed Mindful Awareness”.

Teach yourself and others how to use evidence-based 60-second strategies – uncovered by our university brain scan studies published in respected journals – to reduce chronic anxiety and neurological stress that can be caused by even mild emotional and physical abuse.

Develop a unique communication process that suspends biased beliefs and false assumptions, allowing you to build greater rapport and intimacy with a friend or partner who has been hurt in previous relationships.

Understand why beliefs about repressed memories and the notion that trauma is held in the body are false, how these urban myths have made it more difficult to reduce emotional pain.

Learn how PTSD can change the brain’s structure, and the new brain scan research showing how to resolve this crippling problem.

Uncover the reasons why memories reflect the present moment, not the past, and how to empower yourself and others to practice “post-traumatic growth”.

Find out why some people recover faster from traumatic experiences and how to help others to build resilience and self-confidence.

Discover how false memories are formed and why autobiographical memories are constantly being changed.

You’ll learn how to transform the latest neuroscientific discoveries about trauma into new practical strategies

This module is dedicated to the fine art of holding space when a process crosses the “edge”: when a client becomes overwhelmed, freezes, loses orientation, shifts into a paranoid tone, deep regression, or dissociation—or when boundary issues arise within the relationship (trust, proximity–distance, touch, autonomy, safety). In non-ordinary states of consciousness, perception is often amplified; therefore, the therapist’s inner coherence is no longer just background—it becomes part of the intervention. The core question of the module is: how to remain a lighthouse (a steady metronome of co-regulation) without becoming a tour guide who explains the storm.

The theoretical part is brief and practical. We will look at the basic “network” logic of the brain and how key networks switch and interact (e.g., doing/executive performance, imagination/default, motivation, emotional reactivity, and salience as the “conductor” that determines what we register as meaningful). We use this as a map for recognizing the client’s state and choosing the least intrusive intervention—drawing on the principles of neuro-coaching as developed by Mark Waldman.

The main emphasis is practice. We will train micro-skills that make the biggest difference in real situations: the language of trust (tone, pacing, gaze, “soft clarity”), speaking in invitations rather than assertions (so we don’t slip into suggestion), the two-second pause before a stronger intervention, titration (calibrating intensity), orienting to the environment, contact with the body, and relational co-regulation. We will work through exercises and role-play “scripts” for typical threshold scenarios.

One example we will explore in depth: in an expanded state, a client says they can “hear your tension.” The skill is not to argue or prove anything, but to self-regulate quickly, clarify meaning (“What does that mean for you? Is this hypervigilance, projection, intuition, a safety test?”), and keep the client’s autonomy intact.

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Multidimensional Relational Fluency: A Whole-Person Living-Systems Framework

Braiding trauma-informed clinical, transpersonal, Indigenous, and psychedelic approaches

(Regina U. Hess)



This module offers an integrative orientation and practices that weave trauma-informed clinical frameworks, transpersonal psychotherapy, Indigenous sciences, and contemporary psychedelic science into a coherent whole-person living-systems approach. At its center is multidimensional relational fluency as a set of meta-skills: sensing, tracking, and responding skillfully across inner experience, interpersonal fields, collective and  transgenerational patterns, and the more-than-human world. Participants receive clear maps and embodied tools
for ethical, culturally sensitive, integration-centered facilitation, with strong attention to safety, consent, pacing, preparation, containment, aftercare, and reflective  professional practice.

This section translates the module’s depth and breadth into clear, easy-to-scan, clear-toremember learning targets. Each learning outcome interlinks a specific competence that
participants can build across holotropic breathwork,  sychedelic-assisted work, and integration-centered transpersonal psychotherapy. Each key benefit explains why that competence matters in practice: clinical safety, ethical integrity, cultural sensitivity, relational
precision, and sustainable professional development.

Additionaly ou will have the possibility of practicing sitting in NOSC therapy situation. 


The module includes two mandatory preparatory online seminars (2 × 3 hours) and a four-day in-person intensive. The first webinar covers the foundations of relational fluency, the role of the sitter, consent, pacing, and trauma literacy—with neuroscientific support for recognizing overwhelm and supporting nervous-system regulation. The second webinar deepens transgenerational and transcultural pattern mapping, ecological reciprocity as an everyday practice, and integration as a “living discipline” (aftercare, boundaries, psycho-hygiene practices, and a framework for intervision/supervision).



What participants take away
A map of the whole-person living-systems approach that connects the somatic, psychological, relational, spiritual, and ecological dimensions of work in non-ordinary states of consciousness.

• Training in multidimensional relational fluency (individual–interpersonal–collective–transgenerational–more-than-human), with greater precision in tracking processes and a steadier practitioner presence.

• An ethical container as practical choreography: consent, pacing, preparation, integration, and aftercare in group and individual work (fewer ruptures, more trust and stability).

• Greater sensitivity to transgenerational/transcultural patterns (more humility, greater accuracy in understanding symptoms and meanings).

• Integration as rhythm (not intensity) + a psycho-hygiene practice: concrete weekly “integration spirals,” relationship with nature as regulation and meaning, and clear boundaries before and after sessions.

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Practice of Exploratory Conversation 

(Matej Černigoj)



Space-making:
• Recognizing and reducing response patterns that narrow or close the interpersonal experiential space: different forms of evaluation, unjustified assumptions of a shared reality, giving advice, explaining, interpreting.
• Learning response modes that open the interpersonal experiential space: sincere questions (questions without a hidden agenda of conveying a message or persuading) and empathic “staying with” (staying with the client’s experience as it is, without trying to influence it).
• Developing the capacity to “bracket” (to create distance from one’s taken-for-granted reality)—both one’s own beliefs, values, and expectations, as well as what the client says.

Deepening the exploration:
• Recognizing exploration-rich points in what is said—what to select for further exploration and what not to.
• Recognizing the other person’s readiness to open a new area of experience.
• Recognizing opportunities to ask more intimate questions.
• Recognizing the direction of the conversational flow, and the possibilities and appropriateness of influencing it.
• Paralleling/mirroring what is said in order to open new areas of experience.
• Recognizing important omissions in what is said, and identifying appropriate moments to inquire about them.
• Attuning to the client’s current emotional and vitality level, with the possibility of influencing it.
• Learning and expanding the client’s vocabulary.
• Learning and supporting awareness of the client’s implicit theories.

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Shadow Work (Tine Papič)

The thematic module “Shadow” focuses on understanding and recognizingshadow dynamics that often become activated in intensive processes (in

the therapeutic relationship, in the group field, through projections, and through resistance).

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