🎭 Nervous System & The Arts Syllabus & Zoom Schedule

6-Week Cohort Training with Ruby Rose Fox
Begins June 9, 2025 | Complete anytime within 1 year

🎒Course Materials:

  • Musical Nervous System Workbook (PDF or app)

  • Nervous System Manifest Workbook

  • Musical Nervous System Cards

📅 Course Calendar & Weekly Themes

WEEK ONE: The Artist and The Brain

Theme: Building your personal map and understanding your nervous system as your first instrument.
Dates: June 9–13, 2025

  • Mon, June 9 – Ruby’s Story: How We Got Here
    Assignment: Write Your Nervous System Story

  • Tues, June 10 – Fox Method Core Principles
    Assignment: Integration Reflection

  • Wed, June 11 – The Body Budget & The Brain
    Exercise: Stop, Drop, and Roll Practice

  • Thurs, June 12 – The Brain and The Comfort Zone
    Assignment: It’s Totally Possible & Remember When

  • Fri, June 13 – What Are Emotions?
    Lecture: The Theory of Constructed Emotion (90 min)

WEEK TWO: Mapping Your Nervous System

Theme: Understanding your internal world to lead yourself and your audience.
Dates: June 16–20, 2025

  • Mon, June 16 – Meet Your Instructor + Neuroception 101

  • Tues, June 17 – Understanding Nervous System States

  • Wed, June 18 – Play Mode — The Safe & Social System

  • Thurs, June 19 – Move Mode — The Fight or Flight System

  • Fri, June 20 – Preservation Mode — The Freeze System
    Assignment: Defense Mode Mapping

WEEK THREE: Shifting & Performance Tools

Theme: Daily nervous system strength + emergency triage tools.
Dates: June 23–27, 2025

  • Mon, June 23 – Daily Strengthening with the WEEBSS System

  • Tues, June 24 – Micro-Shifting & BMWs (Body, Movement, Words)

  • Wed, June 25 – Triage I: Preservation → Move Mode

  • Thurs, June 26 – Triage II: Move Mode → Play Mode

  • Fri, June 27 – Performance Tools + Pre-Show Nervous System Game

WEEK FOUR: Dopamine Week

Theme: Reward prediction, motivation crashes, and healing your creative drive.
Dates: June 30–July 4, 2025

  • Mon, June 30 – Dopamine Dips: Am I in Freeze?
    Assignment: Dopamine Self-Assessment

  • Tues, July 1 – Embracing Boring + Peaches & Pumpkins Game

  • Wed, July 2 – Embracing Pain to Clear Your Brain

  • Thurs, July 3 – Dopamine Group Challenge + 1-Hour Meditation

  • Fri, July 4 – MuscleMusic: Dopamine, Cosmos, and Harmony

WEEK FIVE: SUPERPLAY Week

Theme: Unshaming, expansion, and playful transformation.
Dates: July 7–11, 2025

  • Mon, July 7 – Superplay & The Safe and Social Bypass
    Assignment: Superplay Reflection

  • Tues, July 8 – Unshaming the Nervous System + Harmonics Assessment

  • Wed, July 9 – Nervous System Leadership + Shifting Clients
    Assignment: Shifting Scripts

  • Thurs, July 10 – Nervous System Limitations + Stage Fright
    Assignment: Start Your Stage Fright Essay

  • Fri, July 11 – Surprise, Surprise! (Experiential Superplay Day)

WEEK SIX: Advanced Practice & Integration

Theme: Mastery, embodiment, and lifelong nervous system artistry.
Dates: July 14–16, 2025

  • Mon, July 14 – Protein and Mixed Signals

  • Tues, July 15 – Move Your Center

  • Wed, July 16 – Protocol in Practice (Final Lecture)

📝 Final Deliverables:

  • 30 Nervous System Check-Ins (anytime during your year)

  • Final Essay (started in Week 5)

  • Exam (Week 6 or when you're ready)

📌 Notes:

  • Zoom Calls are recorded and will be available inside your learning portal.

  • ArtCoin Participants: At course completion, you’ll pass on a creative or financial gift to another artist.

  • You have up to 1 year to complete the course — but staying with the cohort gives you the most momentum.

🗓️ Coaching Session Schedule (All times in Central Time)

Saturdays – Superplay Workshops

  • 1:00 PM CT

    • Mountain Time (MT): 12:00 PM

    • Eastern Time (ET): 2:00 PM

    • Pacific Time (PT): 11:00 AM

    • UK (BST): 7:00 PM

    • Australia (AEST): 4:00 AM (Sunday)

Sundays

  • 7:30 PM CT

    • Mountain Time (MT): 6:30 PM

    • Eastern Time (ET): 8:30 PM

    • Pacific Time (PT): 5:30 PM

    • UK (BST): 1:30 AM (Monday)

    • Australia (AEST): 10:30 AM (Monday)

Mondays

  • 9:00 AM CT

    • Mountain Time (MT): 8:00 AM

    • Eastern Time (ET): 10:00 AM

    • Pacific Time (PT): 7:00 AM

    • UK (BST): 3:00 PM

    • Australia (AEST): 12:00 AM (Tuesday)

Wednesdays

  • 6:00 PM CT

    • Mountain Time (MT): 5:00 PM

    • Eastern Time (ET): 7:00 PM

    • Pacific Time (PT): 4:00 PM

    • UK (BST): 12:00 AM (Thursday)

    • Australia (AEST): 9:00 AM (Thursday)