(A one-time deposit of $12 will be collected to save your seat. This deposit will be returned upon entry.)
“About three quarters of surveyed leaders indicate that burnout among their staff is at least slightly impacting their organization’s ability to achieve its mission.”*
Are you a nonprofit leader or team member overwhelmed with all the things you need to do and manage to help your organization fulfill its mission, have a meaningful impact, and grow?
Do you find yourself anxious, depressed, or battling burnout from the never-ending emotional and physical demands of your mission-driven work?
Have you attended trainings on fundraising, outreach, or developing team culture – only to hit roadblocks when trying to implement what you learned?
Maybe you…
🔹 Struggle with the technology needed to expand your reach or efficacy, or
🔹 Get pulled in too many directions by competing priorities, or
🔹 Feel exhausted and uninspired when it’s time to take action, or
🔹 Spend so much time trying to please all interested parties that nothing moves forward.What if you could:
Build resilience and capacity (instead of burning out) and
Optimize mental performance (instead of running on fumes) — so you and your team can not only
Sustain your impact but also
Thrive in doing the vital work that you’re here to do.
We welcome you to the paradigm-shifting, 90-minute workshop:
Building the NonProfit Nervous System
presented by your friends at the Center for Emotional Education
When:
Monday, March 31st 1pm, 2025
1pm - 2:30pm or so
Where:
The Confluence Center
Headwaters Foundation
119 West Main Street, Missoula, Montana 59802
(A $12 seat deposit will be collected to save your spot. It will be returned upon your arrival.)
*The Center for Effective Philanthropy’s report, State of Nonprofits 2024, found that “95% of leaders expressed concern about burnout. And half of them were more concerned about their own burnout than this time last year. . .”
Most of us get taught to deal with our blocks backward.
The majority of trainings out there are going to give you workload strategies, mindset mantras, and self-care suggestions that (while important) only work when you’re in the brain state to use them.
If your nervous system is blocking you, no amount of refining your process or reframing your perspective is going to be enough.
Building the NonProfit Nervous System will teach you:
✨ How to work with and reprogram your nervous system so you can be who your mission needs most.
✨ How to stop spinning your wheels and/or procrastinating and increase your efficiency and efficacy.
✨ How to disengage from the cycles of working yourself ragged and then having to back away or even crash to recover.
✨ How to work with all the anxiety, guilt, panic, anger and other uncomfortable emotions of non-profit work.
⚡️ But mostly – how to operate your brain so you function like a hero. ⚡️
(A $12 seat deposit will be collected to save your spot. It will be returned upon your arrival.)
About Building the NonProfit Nervous System:
Key Takeaways:
🔑 Understanding Your Nervous System: Gain insights into how the different networks of your nervous system affect your emotional and mental states, and learn to recognize and quickly address symptoms of dysregulation.
🔑 Emotional Regulation Techniques: Explore effective methods to manage and recover from stress, reduce anxiety, and prevent burnout – helping you to maintain sustainability and balance between you and your work.
🔑 Neuroplasticity and Resilience: Learn how to reprogram your brain for flexibility, adaptability, and durability – enabling you to navigate challenges outside your current comfort zone with greater ease and confidence.
🔑 Mind-Body Connection: Discover the impact of emotional health on mental and physical well-being, and find out how you can easily incorporate practices to enhance overall mental and physical harmony.
🔑 Practical Tools for Nonprofit Leaders: Get actionable insights and strategies tailored to the unique demands of your field – ensuring that you can stay focused, motivated, and productive, without wearing yourself down.
Who Should Attend:
New nonprofit professionals struggling with procrastination, lack of focus, and imposter syndrome blocking them from funding, launching, and/or growing their organization.
Established nonprofit leaders looking to improve their emotional and mental resilience and increase their effectiveness.
Nonprofit professionals experiencing stress they can’t recover from, anxiety they can’t manage, and teetering on the edge of burnout.
Anyone interested in understanding the connections between neuroscience, emotional intelligence, and mission-driven success.
(A $12 seat deposit will be collected to save your spot. It will be returned upon your arrival.)
About Your Expert Facilitators:
Natalie Christensen and Nathan M McTague are the founders of the Center for Emotional Education.
They’ve spent nearly two decades working with some of the world’s most powerful leaders, business owners, and influencers to support them in learning to manage their emotions, clear blocks to their productivity and progress, and rewire their brains to function at a higher level.
With a wealth of education and experience in neuroscience, emotional intelligence, and transformational facilitation, this dynamic duo is dedicated to empowering individuals to achieve balanced and fulfilling lives while maintaining their professional growth and success.
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Like so many, Natalie and Nathan have also struggled in leadership.
They met while managing front staff at what was then the only all-vegetarian restaurant in Montana — Tipu’s Tiger. They went on to start multiple mission-driven businesses — both individually and together. Most of them didn’t work. Or rather, Natalie and Nathan didn’t know how to work them. They poured in countless hours and saw little return.
One of their ventures, Feeleez: an Empathy Game for Children, was a brilliant, high-merit product with broad appeal. It could have had massive impact. But at the time, Natalie and Nathan struggled with putting themselves out there. When their business partner moved on, the business never gained the traction it needed.
As they built their family, they wanted careers that allowed them both to provide for and be present with their children. They trained as life coaches and, at the same time Feeleez was stalling, they started mentoring other parents. This early work grew into what is now The Center for Emotional Education — but for nearly a decade, it remained anemic because they didn’t know how to lead it any better than their past ventures. The only thing keeping it afloat was the fact that it had almost no overhead.
Then, everything changed.
Ten years in, they finally got coaching on how to lead and grow their work. They learned to engage their audience without feeling inauthentic. They got templates, guidance, and tools. And it helped!—but only a little at first.
Because even with all that knowledge, they were still the same people they had always been in leadership. They had never fully faced the trials of putting themselves out there, of navigating rejection, or of pushing past the internal barriers that made visibility and organizational growth so difficult. They still had wounds around being seen, around being perfect, and around their gifts not being wanted.
So there they were — with the keys in their hands but no idea how to make themselves use them.
Until…
Eventually, it got so bad that they had two options: quit trying to run the Center, or make something different happen. And that’s when it hit them.
Because of their deep experience with NeuroEmotional work, they realized that they already had the tools to shift out of Survival Mode, get unstuck, and rewire their approach to leadership. So they began applying those tools — not just to personal growth, but to the very way they ran their organization.
Each time they faced a challenge in their work, they used their NeuroEmotional tools to shift their state. Over time, these tools rewired their nervous systems and transformed how they showed up as leaders — allowing them to build a thriving organization that supports thousands of people all over the world.
Now, through The Center for Emotional Education, they bring this transformational work to nonprofit leaders like you.
Between them, Natalie and Nathan have helped hundreds of leaders – at all levels – break out of cycles of burnout and overwhelm, develop robust resilience, and build a more sustainable way to do their work.
No matter what you’ve tried before or how stuck you feel, they can help you, too.
(A $12 seat deposit will be collected to save your spot. It will be returned upon your arrival.)
Don't miss this opportunity to unlock your full potential and build a more flexible and resilient nervous system so you can be who your mission needs you to be to thrive.
You can do it.
You just need the right tools.
Again, that’s
Monday, March 31st, 2025
1pm - 2:30pm or so
At
The Confluence Center
119 West Main Street, Missoula, Montana 59802
Claim your spot with the button below!
(A $12 seat deposit will be collected to save your spot. It will be returned upon your arrival.)