Calm in the Storm – Free Workshop with Steve Farrell
When uncertainty keeps your mind busy, your emotions close to the surface, or your body braced for the next difficult moment, finding a steadier way to respond can feel more important than ever.
Calm in the Storm brings together Steve Farrell and six guest teachers to explore practical ways of working with stress responses, reconnecting with the body, and meeting everyday challenges with greater calm, resilience, and presence.
The program draws from neuroscience, HeartMath®, Qigong, yoga therapy, breathwork, conscious living, forgiveness, and spiritual wisdom. Each teacher offers a different perspective while contributing to one coherent exploration of what it means to become more grounded when life feels uncertain.
You can focus on the practices and perspectives that are most relevant to you, without treating calm as another standard you have to meet perfectly.
Why Attend Calm in the Storm
Stress and uncertainty can show up in more than your thoughts. They can affect how quickly you react, how difficult it feels to settle after a challenging moment, and how much emotional energy ordinary situations seem to require.
Calm in the Storm approaches these experiences with curiosity rather than self-judgment. Steve Farrell and six guest teachers explore ways to understand protective stress responses while introducing grounding, breathwork, body awareness, Qigong, heart coherence, forgiveness, and other practices connected with steadiness.
The purpose is not to pretend that difficult circumstances disappear when you feel calmer. It is to give you educational perspectives and practical experiences that can help you notice your patterns and explore more intentional ways of meeting uncertainty.
Who Should Attend Calm in the Storm
This free program is designed for people who have been feeling more anxious, reactive, emotionally tired, or challenged by the pace and uncertainty of everyday life. It may also appeal to anyone who wants practical ways to pause, reconnect with the body, and respond to stressful moments with greater awareness.
Because the seven teachers work from different traditions, you can explore the perspectives that resonate most with you. The program may be especially useful if you appreciate an approach that includes both body-based practices and broader reflections on compassion, forgiveness, conscious living, and connection.
- People who feel emotionally stretched by uncertainty or rapid change
- Anyone who wants practical grounding and breath-based practices
- People interested in understanding protective nervous-system responses
- Those curious about neuroplasticity and patterns of resilience
- People interested in Qigong, yoga therapy, or embodied awareness
- Anyone exploring heart coherence, forgiveness, or conscious living
- People who want to bring greater presence into relationships and daily conversations
What You’ll Learn During Calm in the Storm
You’ll explore why the nervous system can respond protectively during stressful or uncertain circumstances and why compassion can be a more useful starting point than criticizing yourself for having those reactions.
You’ll also experience approaches that work through breath, movement, body awareness, attention, and conscious choice. The teachers connect these practices with ideas from neuroscience, HeartMath®, Qigong, yoga therapy, forgiveness, and spiritual wisdom.
The program then broadens the conversation beyond individual stress. Several sessions explore how greater steadiness, presence, and inner coherence can influence the way you show up in relationships, families, communities, and everyday interactions.
- Why protective stress responses can become more noticeable during uncertain times
- A simple grounding practice for reconnecting with the present moment
- How compassion can change the way you relate to difficult internal reactions
- How neuroplasticity relates to building new patterns of resilience
- Breathwork and embodied practices for exploring a felt sense of calm
- Qigong practices that connect breath, body, and awareness
- How heart coherence is used as a framework for resilience and connection
- How forgiveness and conscious thought can support emotional freedom
- How a sense of interconnection can contribute to a wider perspective on peace
Seven Teachers, One Journey to Greater Calm
Calm in the Storm is organized as a progression through seven complementary perspectives. Steve Farrell begins with the idea that the nervous system has been trying to protect you, then the guest teachers expand the exploration through different body-based, psychological, relational, and spiritual lenses.
The program moves through neuroscience and neuroplasticity, grounding and breathwork, Qigong, heart coherence, forgiveness, conscious living, and a deeper reflection on interconnectedness. Rather than presenting these as competing methods, the program places them together around the shared themes of calm, resilience, presence, and connection.
This structure gives you more than one doorway into the subject. You can notice whether you connect most strongly with a physical practice, a new understanding of your patterns, a shift in perspective, or a relational and spiritual dimension of becoming more grounded.
- Begin with understanding rather than self-judgment
- Explore how the brain and nervous system can form new patterns
- Reconnect with breath, body, movement, and present-moment awareness
- Consider how inner steadiness relates to relationships and community
Featured Teachers and What They Cover
Steve Farrell is joined by six guest teachers whose backgrounds span neuroscience, yoga therapy, medicine, Qigong, HeartMath®, conscious living, forgiveness, and spiritual teaching.
Each teacher contributes a distinct part of the program’s progression, giving you several practical and reflective ways to explore calm and resilience.
Steve Farrell – Co-Founder and Worldwide Executive Director of Humanity’s Team
Steve opens the program by exploring the protective role of the nervous system. He introduces a simple grounding practice and emphasizes compassion rather than self-judgment as a foundation for working with difficult reactions.
Lisa Wimberger – Founder of the Neurosculpting® Institute
Lisa explores neuroplasticity and the brain’s capacity to form new patterns. Her session connects this capacity with resilience and the possibility of relating differently to patterns shaped by the past.
Kristen Gustke – Certified Yoga Therapist and Mind-Body Wellness Guide
Kristen shares breathwork, grounding, and embodied practices intended to help you reconnect with what calm feels like in the body and develop practices you can revisit in everyday life.
Dr. Roger Jahnke – Physician, Qigong Master and Author
Dr. Roger Jahnke introduces Qigong practices that bring breath, body, and awareness together. His contribution emphasizes present-moment awareness and a gentle return to embodied steadiness.
Howard Martin – Co-Founder of HeartMath
Howard explores heart coherence as a framework for resilience. His session also considers how greater inner coherence can affect the way you relate to family, relationships, and community.
Saje Dyer – Author and Conscious Living Teacher
Saje focuses on forgiveness, emotional freedom, and becoming more conscious of the thoughts you choose to reinforce. Her contribution connects inner peace with the way you relate to past experiences and present choices.
Suzanne Giesemann – Former U.S. Navy Commander and Spiritual Teacher
Suzanne closes the journey with a reflection on interconnectedness. Her session explores the peace that can come from experiencing life through a wider awareness of connection rather than separation.
Access and Where to Watch Calm in the Storm
Calm in the Storm is a free online video program designed to take about an hour. You can watch it online whenever it is convenient for you.
After you register, check your email for access details and program information.
Giving yourself a little uninterrupted space can make it easier to engage with the grounding, breathwork, Qigong, and reflective portions of the program rather than treating the experience as something to rush through.
- Register with an email address you check regularly
- Set aside approximately an hour for the full program
- Keep a notebook nearby for practices or ideas you want to revisit
- Pause when you want extra time with an exercise or reflection
- Return your attention to the practices that feel most relevant to daily life
How to Register for Calm in the Storm
Click any Register Here For Free button on this page, enter your contact information, and check your email for access details.
About Steve Farrell and Humanity’s Team
Steve Farrell is Co-Founder and Worldwide Executive Director of Humanity’s Team. He serves as the host and opening teacher for Calm in the Storm.
His contribution begins with a compassionate way of understanding stress responses: the nervous system is attempting to protect you. From there, he introduces a grounding practice and sets up the program’s larger exploration of resilience, presence, and connection.
Steve is joined by six guest teachers: Lisa Wimberger, Kristen Gustke, Dr. Roger Jahnke, Howard Martin, Saje Dyer, and Suzanne Giesemann. Together, their sessions bring neuroscience, body-based practices, HeartMath®, Qigong, forgiveness, conscious living, and spiritual wisdom into one free online experience from Humanity’s Team.
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Register for Calm in the Storm to explore practical perspectives from Steve Farrell and six guest teachers on grounding, resilience, presence, and connection.
- Sep 19 - 20 2026
- 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: Sep 19 - 20 2026
- Time: 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm
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