Workshop
Workshop 1: The RESET Protocol Workshop
High-performing professionals experiencing chronic stress, burnout, or nervous system dysregulation — who want a science-backed framework to fix their biological operating system, not just manage symptoms.
Morning Block (9:00 AM – 12:30 PM)
- Why systems break: the real cost of staying stuck
- Group norm-setting: confidentiality, non-judgment, presence
- Signs your system is corrupted: sleep, energy, mood, relationships, performance, health
- Signs Audit activity: individual + pair reflection
- The neuroscience of stress: threat → amygdala → HPA axis → cortisol cascade
- Fight / Flight / Freeze / Flock / Flatline
- Pattern Audit: which is yours?
- Your Window of Tolerance: diagram + group discussion
- Meeting your Inner Critic without fighting it
- Tracing triggers to their origin
- The Inner Critic exercise (previewed for 90-day protocol)
Afternoon Block (1:15 PM – 6:00 PM)
Lunch (45 min — walk outside, silence phone)
- The RESET Breath: 4-4-8-4 — live practice with the group
- The Vagus Nerve & vagal tone: why breath is the lever
- Cortisol baseline reset: what changes in 6–8 weeks
- SHIFT Commitments: one per category (morning / evening / high-stress moment)
- The 4 Time Blocks of daily practice: morning 5 min / midday 4 min / evening 8 min / high-stress 2 min
- Embedding through consistency: why same time, same place, same sequence
- Tracking progress: weekly self-assessment
- Weeks 7–9: the critical window — why most people quit here
- Energy Audit: STOP / PROTECT / START
- Three Horizons: 1 year / 5 years / 10 years — vision, not plan
- Relationships & regulation
- Day 90: what success looks like
- Full 12-week roadmap walkthrough
- Calendar mapping: when does each phase begin?
- Pre-Program Assessment review
- Commitments and next steps
- "You now have the protocol. Now do the work."
- Q&A
- Certificate of Completion
Materials Required
- Participant Workbook (pre-stacked)
- Flip charts + markers
- Timer (visible to facilitator)
- Pre-workshop questionnaire sent 48 hours in advance