Staying Human in the Age of AI: Nervous System Regulation for a New Era
[recording] Staying Human in the Age of AI Workshop Replay + Resources
Thank you to everyone who joined today's workshop on staying human in the age of AI, and for bringing such thoughtful questions and reflections!
We explored how to use AI more intentionally, hold onto our own discernment, and notice when it's time to step away from the screen and reconnect with our bodies.
If you weren't able to attend, you can watch the recording here → link to recording
Resources — Below are the resources shared in the workshop:
Conversation with Dan Shipper — on using AI to deepen human craft.
HumanMD — a tool to help you create a document with your values, intentions, and boundaries to give your AI more context about you.
Protocol Cards — guided regulation practices to experiment with and find what works for you.
Free nervous system assessment — explore your patterns and receive practice recommendations based on your responses.
A couple of questions to take into your week: Is my AI use helping me feel more connected to the humans around me? And is it helping me live in greater alignment with my values?
Upcoming 5-week Bootcamp — As mentioned during the workshop, our next Nervous System Mastery cohort runs in October.
If you'd like to go deeper into the practices we touched on and build more capacity to stay grounded and intentional, early bird enrollment saves you $250 through Sunday, and use code EARLYBIRD at checkout.
Explore the info guide and apply → Nervous System Mastery
Otherwise, we hope you took away some helpful tools and ideas from our time together.
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We'd love to hear anything you'd like to share following the workshop, either about the content or the NSM cohort. What landed for you? What questions or curiosities are still alive?
Feel free to email me at jonny@nsmastery.com
Have a wonderful weekend!
— Jonny
p.s. our next free workshop is on Unclenching, next Thursday. We'd love to see you there! RSVP
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What if the thing that decides whether AI leaves you empowered or depleted isn't the model you use, but the state of your nervous system when you sit down to use it?
Most of us have felt both sides of AI by now: the thrill of building something we never could before, and the strange, wired exhaustion afterward. The difference between those two experiences usually isn't the tool itself; it's how we use it.
In this session, you'll explore:
Why AI is a "non-specific amplifier" — like a psychedelic, it reflects and magnifies whatever you bring to it, whether that's calm and agency or anxiety and reactivity
The four ways of relating to AI — (from fully human craft to fully outsourced), and how to choose your mode deliberately instead of drifting into the one that quietly drains you
The rise of "AI brain fry" — the new types of dysregulation appearing in the age of AI, and how to catch it early.
Bottom-up regulation for staying human — simple, body-first practices you can use before and between work sprints.
A guided practice to feel your own state shift in real time
How to enroll AI as a regulation partner rather than a source of overwhelm—small rituals that keep you grounded, embodied, and in your own discernment
The hypothesis
AI can be the most empowering technology we've ever had, or the most disempowering, and both are true at once. What makes the difference is whether you're relating to it from a grounded, regulated place or from a reactive one.
The skill of staying human in the age of AI is, at its root, the skill of feeling and regulating your own nervous system.
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This workshop is part of a free workshop series, offered by Jonny Miller and Nervous System Mastery—a 5-week online bootcamp to build calm, clarity, and resilience from the inside out.