Managing Overwhelm: Sensory Awareness Strategies with Dr. Norman Farb

This On-Demand workshop with Dr. Norman Farb, neuroscientist and co-author of Better in Every Sense, provides practical tools to help clients manage overwhelm through sensory awareness. Explore the brain’s response to stress, debunk common misconceptions about overwhelm as “feeling too much,” and learn how it is rooted in “sensing too little.” Gain strategies and experience a sense-foraging practice designed to reactivate brain areas affected by overwhelm, restoring balance and enhancing mindfulness. This workshop offers a new perspective to effectively support clients navigating stress and overwhelm.

In this workshop, you will:

• Understand what happens when we become overwhelmed.
• Learn why overwhelm stems from sensing too little, not feeling too much, and how to support clients in managing it.
• Access and experience a sense-foraging practice that reactivates parts of the brain shut down by overwhelm, expanding the capacity to manage stress.

Learning Lessons, Practices and Transcripts:

• How Stress Inhibits Sensation and the Art of Sense Foraging

• Application: Sense Foraging for Managing Overwhelm

• Guide: Sense Foraging for Managing Overwhelm

CE Hours = 1.5

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Featured Speaker: Norman Farb, PhD, Author and Neuroscientist, University of Toronto

Norman Farb, PhD, is the co-author of “Better in Every Sense” and an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto Mississauga, where he directs the Regulatory and Affective Dynamics laboratory. He studies the psychology of well-being, focusing on mental habits, such as how we think about ourselves and interpret our emotions. He is particularly interested in why people differ in their resilience to stress, depression, and anxiety. Prof. Farb's work currently explores online training to support wellbeing, as well as neuroimaging to understand how emotional reactions predict mental health over the lifespan.