Facilitated By:
Dr. Alane Daugherty
Dr. Alane Daugherty is a full-time lecturer in Cal Poly Pomona’s Kinesiology Department and co-director of the Mind and Heart Research Lab on campus. She specializes in the mind-body connection of somatic healing and emotional resilience. Author of three books, including Unstressed: How Somatic Awareness Can Transform Your Body’s Stress Response, she co-created the Inner Calm smartphone app and writes “Healing Stress from the Inside Out” for Psychology Today. She holds certificates in Polyvagal Theory, Integrated Somatic Trauma Therapy, Somatic IFS, and is a Somatic Experiencing student. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post, Fortune, Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper, Women’s World, and others. Dr. Daugherty routinely presents on topics related to somatic healing, and emotional literacy.
Description:
Do you often feel stressed or anxious, as if your nervous system is always on? Tension, overwhelm and shutdown are increasingly common in today’s world blocking our ability to thrive. Further, neuroscience shows that the more we experience stress or anxiety, the more our mind/body makes these our default states. Without realizing it, we train ourselves to stay reactive, and act accordingly. In this presentation, Dr. Alane Daugherty explains how an overactivated nervous system develops and how to retrain it. She’ll introduce somatic awareness, building a zone of resilience, and returning to calm as key practices for restoring balance. You’ll leave with understanding, practical tools, and a plan to reset your stress response and cultivate greater calm in daily life.
