Profound States
A Four-Week Live Deep Dive with Holly Bridges
When a person has minimal movement, limited communication or reduced participation, it can be difficult to understand what is happening beneath the presentation - or how best to help.
Traditional approaches often focus on skills and behaviour while overlooking the physiological organisation that determines what the person can access in any given moment.
Profound States offers a physiology-led framework for understanding these complex presentations. Drawing on neuroscience, autonomic physiology and more than a decade of clinical practice, the course explores how increasing physiological flexibility can expand functional availability, support subjective awareness and create greater possibilities for participation.
What You Will Learn
You will learn how to:
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Recognise profound autonomic immobilisation and distinguish safe from unsafe parasympathetic states
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Understand how early autonomic disruption can affect movement, communication, learning and participation
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Identify when physiology is limiting access to existing abilities
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Notice subtle signs of increasing nervous-system organisation and functional availability
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Recognise when an intervention is building capacity or increasing physiological threat
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Adapt your approach to the person’s autonomic state
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Support physiological change at a pace the nervous system can manage
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Develop stronger clinical reasoning for profound and complex presentations
What You Will Gain
You will leave with:
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A practical framework for understanding profound states
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Greater confidence when working with complex presentations
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Clearer ways to assess effort, availability and physiological change
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Strategies that can be integrated into your existing practice
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A deeper understanding of how physiology shapes movement, communication, awareness and participation
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The ability to recognise meaningful progress before major functional changes become visible
This course will help you look beneath the presentation, understand what may be limiting the person’s availability and respond with greater clarity, confidence and precision.
Join Us
A 4-week live exploration into profound nervous system states, protective stillness, and the deeper intelligence of the body.
23 July, 2026 - pre-course materials
6 August, 2026 - 1st live
13 August, 2026 - 2nd live
20 August, 2026 - 3rd live
27th August, 2026 - 4th live
5pm - 6.3opm / AWST - timezone
Calls will be recorded
Price
USD 420
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*Please see A.R.T. Foundations for the core introductory exercises and philosophy that are referred to in this course.
