‘Holding Your Centre’ as a Humanitarian in Crisis
Where?
Remote, Zoom
When?
May 15th 2025
12-4pm UK time
Time
Sign Up Closes May 12th!
Why this? Why now?
The humanitarian and development sectors are in upheaval— and so are many of the people trying to hold it up.
You might be asking yourself:
Do I stay or go?
What happens to my family if I lose this job?
How do I keep showing up when I feel totally burnt out?
Who am I without this work?
How do I carry on when I feel exhausted, disillusioned, and scared?
Is it selfish to want something more sustainable?
Budgets are shrinking. Roles are disappearing.
And many of the women we work with - and walk alongside - are exhausted. Panicked. Overwhelmed.
Not just about the work itself, but about what happens next.
A half-day online workshop for women navigating big decisions, shifting roles, and systemic instability in the humanitarian and development sector.
To find calm in chaos, clarity under pressure and the courage to make bold, honest choices.
Includes 2 extra 90 minute follow up group calls in June and July
Info
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Reduced from regular price of £250 to £80 (€95)
Please note that to secure your place, payment must be made within 24 hours of signing up.
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The workshop is non-refundable.
What’s happening right now has a profound impact on your nervous system.
This level of uncertainty and abrupt change can intensify states of anxiety, overwhelm, overdrive and collapse.
And if the place you’re making decisions from - your nervous system - is deeply disregulated, finding calm in chaos, clarity under pressure and the courage to make bold, honest choices feels impossible.
There’s nothing wrong with you, you’re not broken - your body is simply signaling a feeling of unsafety.
This isn’t about your capability, nothing to do with not being good enough.
This is about your capacity to resource and regulate your nervous system.
This isn’t a career development workshop.
This is a space to build your internal resources back up before making the next move.
This is about leading from a place of nervous system regulation, so you can lead without burning out or breaking down.
What do you get?
1 x 4 hour workshop on May 15th, 12-4pm UK time
2 x 90 minute follow up group calls on June 12th and July 2nd, both 12-1:30pm UK time
Handouts with materials, resources and practices to continue your journey
This workshop is for you if you are:
A female professional in the humanitarian and development sectors affected by the current funding crisis
Wanting long lasting change, not just quick fixes
Aware that your usual coping mechanisms are not going to cut it this time
Ready to change the way in which your external circumstances impact you internally
Ready to build foundations for nervous system resilience and flexibility
Recently jobless as a result of the funding crisis
What is different about our approach?
Our approach is rooted in research, real-world application, and a deep understanding of how leadership and organisations evolve, it is:
Rooted in Neuroscience & Therapeutic Models – We help leaders navigate complexity by understanding how the nervous system, team dynamics, and organisational systems shape decision-making and resilience.
Informed by Regenerative & Trauma-Informed Practices – Moving beyond sustainability, we focus on leadership that nourishes people and organisations while integrating awareness, embodiment, and resilience.
What to expect from this workshop:
Reconnecting to a sense of internal safety, so you’re not just surviving, but discerning.
Move through career shifts without collapsing or getting stuck in overdrive.
Help you to make sense of your nervous system responses to stress, and how they influence your thoughts, emotions and behaviours.
Introduce you to a supportive community of other women experiencing the same challenges as you.
Develop your ability to sense and interpret your body’s sensations as important signals that indicate how you’re responding to threat / stress / challenge.
Give you practical tools to regulate your nervous system and build your resilience.
This is not about pushing through.
It’s about learning how to pause, listen, and lead — in a way that doesn’t cost you your wellbeing.
Your Guide
Elisa Dari
Elisa is a transformational coach, IFS practitioner and group facilitator supporting senior women leaders in the non-for profit sector (like the EU, UN and international NGOs) as well as private sector to reclaim the power of their intuition and inner wisdom to lead in an aligned and connected way.
She draws on her years of experience leading teams across countries like Lebanon, Syria and Iraq with multi-million dollar portfolios for Search for Common Ground; along with her own first-hand experience and training in transformational coaching models, Internal Family Systems therapy, somatic practices and facilitation to bring a holistic approach to facilitate change at the individual, group and collective level.
FAQs
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After completing the sign up form, you’ll recieve an email with the relevant bank details.
Please note that payment for the workshop must be made within 24 hours of completing the sign up form.
Payments can be made in GBP and Euros.
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A recording of the workshop will be sent only to those in attendance incase you’d like to revisit some of the practices and exercises in your own time.
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Not at all - we will cover some nervous system basics, so pre-existing knowledge isn’t needed.
Similarly, if you’ve had experience with the nervous system, our approach brings in practices from different disciplines and methodologies and you’ll be able to depeen your skills.
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Yes - all participants will recieve post workshop resources to continue their nervous system journey.