Settled Bodies Settle Other Bodies | Cultivating Steadiness at Work

What is something your body knows that your brain hasn’t caught onto yet? In this First Friday Webinar, Shanon Olsen and Courtney Caldwell return to our theme of cultivating steadiness, this time through the body. Most of us were trained to work from the chin up. This conversation asks you to notice what happens below that line when something catches you off guard. We all get thrown. A message lands wrong, plans change, the news hits hard, and our bodies react before we’ve had a chance to think. Shanon and Courtney talk through the automatic stress-based reactions many of us have carried since childhood, why they protect us in the moment, and what they cost us over time. You’ll hear why telling on yourself out loud can help a whole team settle, and you’ll practice a few somatic moves you can do at your desk or on a Zoom call in under 30 seconds. In this session: A check-in question you can come back to a few times a day The idea of getting thrown, from Ellen Langer’s work on mindfulness Stress-based reactions as protective armor Why naming your own reaction helps more than calling out someone else’s Butterfly taps, ear pulling, and knee squeezes, with a walkthrough of each This month’s challenge: pause, notice, and choose one small action when you feel yourself getting thrown. Books and thinkers mentioned: The Quaking of America by Resmaa Menakem The Enneagram for Black Liberation by Chichi Agorom Mindfulness by Ellen Langer adrienne maree brown (“small is good, small is all”) Prentis Hemphill Henley Live 2027 is coming to the Railspur rooftop in Seattle. Join the waitlist: [link] First Friday Webinars happen the first Friday of every month. Register once for the whole series: https://www.henleyleadership.com/lead...