🎭 Nervous System & The Arts
Syllabus & Zoom Schedule
6-Week Cohort Training with Ruby Rose Fox
Begins September 7, 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: September 7–13, 2025
Sun, Sept 7 – Ruby’s Story: How We Got Here
Assignment: Write Your Nervous System StoryMon, Sept 8 – Fox Method Core Principles
Assignment: Integration ReflectionTues, Sept 9 – The Body Budget & The Brain
Exercise: Stop, Drop, and Roll PracticeWed, Sept 10 – The Brain and The Comfort Zone
Assignment: It’s Totally Possible & Remember WhenThurs, Sept 11 – 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: September 14–20, 2025
Sun, Sept 14 – Meet Your Instructor + Neuroception 101
Mon, Sept 15 – Understanding Nervous System States
Tues, Sept 16 – Play Mode — The Safe & Social System
Wed, Sept 17 – Move Mode — The Fight or Flight System
Thurs, Sept 18 – Preservation Mode — The Freeze System
Assignment: Defense Mode Mapping
WEEK THREE: Shifting & Performance Tools
Theme: Daily nervous system strength + emergency triage tools.
Dates: September 21–27, 2025
Sun, Sept 21 – Daily Strengthening with the WEEBSS System
Mon, Sept 22 – Micro-Shifting & BMWs (Body, Movement, Words)
Tues, Sept 23 – Triage I: Preservation → Move Mode
Wed, Sept 24 – Triage II: Move Mode → Play Mode
Thurs, Sept 25 – Performance Tools + Pre-Show Nervous System Game
WEEK FOUR: Dopamine Week
Theme: Reward prediction, motivation crashes, and healing your creative drive.
Dates: September 28–October 4, 2025
Sun, Sept 28 – Dopamine Dips: Am I in Freeze?
Assignment: Dopamine Self-AssessmentMon, Sept 29 – Embracing Boring + Peaches & Pumpkins Game
Tues, Sept 30 – Embracing Pain to Clear Your Brain
Wed, Oct 1 – Dopamine Group Challenge + 1-Hour Meditation
Thurs, Oct 2 – MuscleMusic: Dopamine, Cosmos, and Harmony
WEEK FIVE: SUPERPLAY Week
Theme: Unshaming, expansion, and playful transformation.
Dates: October 5–11, 2025
Sun, Oct 5 – Superplay & The Safe and Social Bypass
Assignment: Superplay ReflectionMon, Oct 6 – Unshaming the Nervous System + Harmonics Assessment
Tues, Oct 7 – Nervous System Leadership + Shifting Clients
Assignment: Shifting ScriptsWed, Oct 8 – Nervous System Limitations + Stage Fright
Assignment: Start Your Stage Fright EssayThurs, Oct 9 – Surprise, Surprise!
(Experiential Superplay Day)
WEEK SIX: Advanced Practice & Integration
Theme: Mastery, embodiment, and lifelong nervous system artistry.
Dates: October 12–14, 2025
Sun, Oct 12 – Protein and Mixed Signals
Mon, Oct 13 – Move Your Center
Tues, Oct 14 – 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 available inside your learning portal.
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
→ MT: 12:00 PM | ET: 2:00 PM | PT: 11:00 AM
→ UK (BST): 7:00 PM | Australia (AEST): 4:00 AM (Sunday)
Sundays
🕢 7:30 PM CT
→ MT: 6:30 PM | ET: 8:30 PM | PT: 5:30 PM
→ UK (BST): 1:30 AM (Monday) | Australia (AEST): 10:30 AM (Monday)
Mondays
🕘 9:00 AM CT
→ MT: 8:00 AM | ET: 10:00 AM | PT: 7:00 AM
→ UK (BST): 3:00 PM | Australia (AEST): 12:00 AM (Tuesday)
Wednesdays
🕕 6:00 PM CT
→ MT: 5:00 PM | ET: 7:00 PM | PT: 4:00 PM
→ UK (BST): 12:00 AM (Thursday) | Australia (AEST): 9:00 AM (Thursday)