What Embodying Your Practice Looks Like on the Floor
Nurses don’t have time for hours of extra homework or dry lectures. That is why Embodying Your Practice is built to fit into the busy reality of your actual workday. It’s fully online, confidential, and broken down into brief, mobile-friendly practices that you can access on a break, in your car after a heavy shift, or whenever you need a moment to decompress.
Here is exactly what the program delivers to help your members thrive:
The Embodying Your Practice Toolkit
- Reset Your Nervous System
Quick, effective online tools available whenever you need to come out of fight-or-flight in times of stress. - Process workplace overwhelm, name and address systemic injustices.
Trauma-informed process and inquiry provides sustenance and stability for everyday nursing life, both on and off the floor, empowering nurses to process and address moral distress, psychological injury and systemic failures. - Real Community and Solidarity
Live webinars offer experiential learning, facilitation, and a space for deeper reflection in community with others through authentic sharing. This is not just talk, it’s a safe space for healing.
IN-DEPTH COURSE DESCRIPTION
Today’s nurses are beyond the point of exhaustion. Squeezed by severe short-staffing, forced overtime, and increasing incidents of workplace violence, nurses’ physical and psychological health is constantly placed at risk.
According to the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions’ 2025 survey:
- Over one third of nurses reported having worked involuntary overtime in the past six months
- Six in ten experienced some form of violence or abuse at work in the past year
- One in four show clinical signs of anxiety, depression, or burnout
But if we’ve learned one thing from our years of work and conversation with nurses, it’s that nurses don’t need more “self-care” to address these issues. They need transformative tools for nervous system regulation, solidarity, and workplace empowerment. Nurses are tired of being handed wellness tips by management without addressing the systemic reasons for burnout.
That’s why we built Embodying Your Practice. This isn’t a generic mindfulness app. It’s a practical, online toolkit created in partnership with nurses and nurses’ unions to support mental and emotional health amidst the chaotic realities of the modern healthcare system. We deliver practical, effective nervous system practices that nurses can use mid-shift to address overwhelm, process and heal from workplace trauma, and break the cycle of burnout. Through a combination of real time webinar discussions about the most urgent topics that nurses face today with an online kit of practices and resources that integrate with your union’s learning management system, your membership will have the resources to move beyond coping towards the empowerment and agency that helps nurses and unions thrive.
Our program is rooted in a deep commitment to equity and social justice, core values that we share with unions. We don’t just focus on individual stress; we create a supportive, facilitated community space where nurses can connect with peers, unpack systemic workplace pressures, and build true solidarity.
While management gives lip service to nurses’ resiliency, we support unions to provide effective, transformative tools that protect nurses in your membership and empower them to mobilize for the changes that matter most.
PROGRAM COMPONETS
Meet Embodying Your Practice’s Co-Founders
Angelica Singh (MA, BCST), Somatic Trauma Therapist and Creator of the Embodiment Process™
Angelica is a somatic educator, trauma therapist, and organizational consultant whose pathbreaking healing paradigm, The Embodiment Process™, has been featured in O, The Oprah Magazine and offered at the UCLA Medical Center.
With over 20 years of experience facilitating trauma resolution, nervous system regulation, and mindfulness across complex systems, Angelica is a recognized leader in bringing somatic frameworks to healthcare and higher education. As the Co-Founder of Embodying Your Practice™, she has designed and delivered trauma-informed resilience programs to thousands of nursing professionals in partnership with organizations including the British Columbia Nurses’ Union (BCNU) and the Canadian Nursing Students’ Association (CNSA). Her institutional training has supported faculty and leadership at universities internationally, including Smith College, New York University, the University of Oregon, Rutgers University, and Simon Fraser University.
A master teacher of facilitators, Angelica specializes in treating occupational moral injury and systemic overwhelm. Her extensive therapeutic expertise spans advanced somatic modalities, including Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, pre- and perinatal birth trauma work, and somatic counseling. She is highly skilled at utilizing online platforms to foster deep, palpable collective connection, providing healthcare workers with a pathway to professional agency and collective well-being.
Anita Chari, Ph.D, Professor of Political Science & Somatic Educator
Anita is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon and a proud union member of United Academics. An award-winning somatic educator, she is recognized for her innovative work bringing embodied, trauma-informed, and social justice paradigms into complex institutional settings.
For over a decade, Anita has taught as a faculty member in the Inside-Out Prison Education Project. There, she developed specialized pedagogical approaches to facilitate embodied nervous system regulation in high-stress, systemic environments. This foundational work sparked her dedication to equipping professionals across critical industries—including healthcare, labor unions, and higher education—with the structural tools needed to navigate moral injury and challenging institutional conditions.
In partnership with organizations including the British Columbia Nurses’ Union (BCNU) and the Canadian Nursing Students’ Association (CNSA), Anita has successfully designed and co-facilitated systemic resilience programs for thousands of healthcare professionals. Her institutional training, lectures, and workshops have been delivered across major higher education networks nationally and internationally, including Harvard University, New York University, Smith College, Rutgers University, Boston College, Simon Fraser University, and Southwestern University. She is a leading researcher on the political potential of embodied practices, the author of two books, including A Political Economy of the Senses (Columbia University Press), and her writing and her writing has been published extensively across peer-reviewed journals and volumes at the intersection of political theory, contemporary art, and embodied research.