Working with Uncertainty – within yourself, as a clinician, and within the systems around you.
A CE Training for Clinicians.
For counselors, social workers, therapists, coaches, educators, and anyone in the helping professions.
Saturday, October 24th, 2026 | 10:00AM – 1:00PM CST | Virtual Offering
UNCERTAINTY (noun) relational experience
Uncertainty is the nervous system experience of not knowing what will happen next – in our bodies, our relationships, and the larger systems we depend on. Some uncertainty is internal, and some is shaped by real social and systemic conditions that impact our safety and stability.
When the experience of uncertainty feels overwhelming, we naturally reach for certainty in beliefs, identities, roles, or structures that promise safety. Sometimes those attempts at safety can disconnect us from ourselves, each other, or contribute to harm – especially when certainty is built through control or dominance.
It’s not about eliminating uncertainty or pretending it isn’t real. It’s about building the nervous system capacity to engage with uncertainty more consciously – to notice when our internal alarm matches the moment we’re in, and to respond in ways that support connection, responsibility, and interdependence rather than fear-driven rigidity.
Most of us have never been taught how to actually be with uncertainty.
Workshop Overview:
The Embodied Professional is a three-hour experiential workshop for helping professionals who are tired of pushing through — overriding their body’s natural rhythms in order to keep showing up, stay available, and project certainty even when they’re unsure.
This workshop explores how our nervous systems reach for certainty in moments of stress and how that very impulse can lead to exhaustion, disconnection, and burnout.
Through guided movement, reflection, somatic contemplation, and nervous system education, participants will learn to recognize their own regulation patterns, build the capacity to meet uncertainty with curiosity rather than control, and nourish the inner reserves that make sustainable work possible.
This work is explored through both an individual and systemic lens because the uncertainty we carry as clinicians is never just personal. This isn’t about doing more — it’s about doing differently.
Course Objectives:
By the end of this 3-hour workshop, participants will be able to:
1. Identify common somatic signs of chronic stress, over-giving, and professional burnout through a nervous system lens.
2. Explain how supporting their own nervous system regulation before and during sessions increases capacity for attunement, presence, and effective client engagement.
3. Demonstrate at least two embodied practices (e.g., anchoring, orienting, or gentle movement) that cultivate parasympathetic restoration and enhance professional self-awareness.
4. Describe how aligning work habits with the body’s natural rhythms and the principle of ‘doing differently’ can reduce compassion fatigue and support sustainable professional practice.
5. Reflect on personal patterns of uncertainty tolerance and develop micro-practices to process and regulate emotional and energetic overwhelm.
6. Integrate somatic awareness into professional identity to sustain empathy, clarity, and presence in client and workplace relationships.
3 NBCC-approved CE credits | 3 hours
$150 per participant
Equity Scholarship
Financial barriers shouldn’t stand between someone and building this kind of capacity. I’m setting aside three Pay What You Can spots for this training — priority goes to Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color, along with anyone who’s faced systemic or financial barriers to this kind of work. If this speaks to you, please reach out. I’d genuinely love to have you in the room. Email me at .
The Embodied Professional has been approved by NBCC for NBCC credit. Heather Gargis, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. NBCC Approval No. SP-5316.