Shifting from Survival: Nervous System Health for Animal Care Professionals

Course overview

This course provides animal care professionals with essential knowledge and practical tools to support nervous system health and sustainable wellbeing in high-stress, trauma-exposed environments. Recognizing that survival mode is a protective response to the realities of this work, not a personal failing, participants will learn how chronic stress and trauma shape the body, emotions, and behaviours. They will explore somatic awareness, grounding techniques, and simple, effective practices to help restore internal safety, foster connection with themselves and others, and support their wellbeing to sustain their purpose-driven work.