Thrive: Advanced Practices for Deeper Impact
Handling the Heat: Neuroscience-Based Tools for Working with Tension
Wednesday, October 29, 2025 | 11:45 AM - 12:30 PM EST
Don’t let interpersonal tension in groups be a dead-end when it could be a doorway to deeper connection and real transformation.
Think back to the last time emotions flared and the room got awkwardly silent... or explosively loud.
Where did your thoughts go? What did you feel? What did you do?
If you're getting real with your groups, things will get hot from time to time. Prepare yourself by building your nervous system toolkit.
Learn tactics from applied neuroscience for returning to center when emotions run high, and guiding groups productively through discomfort without bypassing or escalating the messy good stuff.
Through hands-on exercises and real-world examples, you’ll leave this session with practical techniques to turn tension into traction, and to build momentum and (hopefully) avoid meltdowns.
Neuroscience can show us how to handle the heat without losing our cool, and maybe even turn tension into a new favorite ingredient in our coaching cabinet.
Audience
➙ Coaches with some experience group coaching
➙ Coaches with advanced group coaching skills
➙ Coaches internal to an organization
Key Takeaways
✔️ Sense rising nervous system activation (before it turns into a full-blown disaster) so you can intervene at the right moment.
✔️ Steady yourself in high-pressure moments so you can keep your cool as the temperature rises.
✔️ Steer the group through tension using neuroscience-backed tools without needing a forced kumbaya moment.
Oren Shai
Somatic Leadership Coach, Feeling School
An organizational psychologist and neuroscience-based leadership coach, Oren Shai helps leaders break free from cycles of stress, anxiety, and depletion so they can show up with presence, creativity, and impact. His work is grounded in applied neurology and somatics, addressing the psycho/neuro/biological necessities for building real capacity for navigating high-pressure situations.
With over a decade of experience developing leaders in fast-growing companies, Oren has driven large-scale organizational change and cultivated coaching-based management cultures, in addition to collaborating with top universities on applied team performance research.
As the co-founder of Feeling School, Oren teaches his signature Nervous System Fluency methodology to leaders seeking to integrate cutting-edge neuroscience with depth and humanity, helping them embody their most connected, alive expression of leadership.
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