System Sensing: Navigating Complexity Beyond the Mind
In complex times, our minds often seek certainty — yet many challenges we face live in the space between. This online workshop invites you to explore a different way of engaging with complexity: through the intelligence of your body.
System sensing is a somatic approach that supports deeper insight, clarity, and creativity. Rather than analysing our way through, we slow down, tune in, and listen to the subtle cues within and around us. This session offers practical tools to:
Cultivate presence in uncertain situations
Access embodied insight and relational awareness
Reconnect with intuition, creativity, and care
You’ll learn gentle nervous system practices to support generative states and explore how these can enhance facilitation, collaboration, and systems work.
Ideal for: facilitators, designers, changemakers, and leaders navigating complex, relational spaces.
YOUR FACILITATORS
Jax Wechsler is a trauma-informed strategic designer, systemic coach, educator, and space-holder.
For over 20 years, she has worked across social innovation, systems change, and design for wellbeing — within communities, organisations, and public systems.
Her work bridges inner and outer transformation, weaving together neuroscience, somatics, and systems-informed approaches to change.
Jax is passionate about supporting people and teams to cultivate the inner conditions, like presence, care, and creativity, that enable meaningful change in the world.
Viv Sung is a systemic designer, regenerative practitioner, and educator dedicated to fostering individual and collective transformation towards restoring balance with our living world.
With over 20 years of experience across the public and private sectors, her work bridges creative thinking, systems thinking, leadership, and inner development.
Viv brings an inside-out approach to change – cultivating presence, resilience, and adaptability to help individuals and teams navigate complexity with clarity, connection, and deeper insight.
Testimonials
“For most of us, who are cognitive bound, the carefully facilitated introduction was appreciated and helped overcome the initial reaction to sensing from a new worldview. Thank you I greatly value the experience as you have opened up another path for exploring complex situations. ”
– Bruce McKenzie, Change Consultant and Academic
“I thought I was “just” coming to learn a new tool and get some cool new tips — but always I am reminded that real learning is transformative. I am still integrating this wisdom and I’m craving more. Thank you for the gifts.”
– Katrina Mitchell, Facilitator
“There is an encouraging shift in design and elsewhere to pay attention to the senses and body knowledge as fundamental to how we get to know the world and how we work with the array of systems that are at play. My experience in their recent session opened new and interesting ideas for me to explore.”
-Marius Foley PhD Program Manager Master of Design Futures