Would you like to learn how to help yourself regulate out of overwhelming emotions?
Would you like to learn how to communicate with people when they are in intense stress, rage or panic?
Would you like to understand why our brains (& bodies) respond to people, experiences and emotions with such intensity?
Would you like to understand why little things affect us in such severe and destabilising ways?
“This is my 25th year teaching, and I can honestly say that I have never started a new school year in such a calm, peaceful, and positive state of mind. I don’t know how you came to be such a genius at delivering this material, but this could quite possibly rank as one the most beneficial and life-altering courses I have taken. And I have taken A LOT of classes in my life!” – Valerie
I will talk you through practical exercises so you know how to respond to any difficult situation.
You can bring your real-life situations to me and learn what to do when things are most challenging for you, or when you’re with people facing challenges.
“I am a lot less judgemental about people around me – I now realize why they are behaving the way they are!” – WHO WAS THIS????
This workshop is taught on Zoom. You can interact through the chat or on camera with me in the support/Q&A sessions. Whichever feels most comfortable.
If you don’t want to share on Zoom, you will learn a lot from listening to the stories that people bring. You can also privately message me to talk through your situations and receive feedback and support. Your comfort and emotional safety is paramount to me.
In this 8-session live online workshop we will be diving deeper into a brain-state-focused approach to reducing overwhelm and creating safety in our nervous system – as well as learning tools to gently process emotions and come out of emotional reactivity.
Emotional releasing: Series of exercises
You will learn several ways we can work with emotions that arise in our daily lives, as well as intentional practices we can use to ‘drain’ the heavy emotional charge we are carrying. I will guide you through exercises for integrating emotions through movement, touch sensation, physical support and self-guidance. You will get a clear understanding of how to work with emotions, and plenty of ideas on how to apply this between sessions.
Exploring and releasing past emotional patterns
This will be a practical session where I will help you explore the deeper emotional patterns you are holding around everyday emotional activations. I will guide you through your own practice as well as do some emotional releasing of whatever we uncover. We will explore nervous system activation and what past experiences might be subconsciously communicating to us about future experiences, and how to work with these subconscious forces.
Deep dive into emotional support for others
We will learn different tools we can use to help and support others. We will explore how to create more connected and emotionally safe relationships where we can cultivate emotional support to feel safer and more understood.
Identifying and meeting unmet needs
Our emotions have wisdom to share with us about the needs we have that are not being met. Perhaps it’s anger from not speaking up, sadness that has a need for more community and connection, or frustration about a lack of boundaries. This class will explore the connection between needs and emotions, how to connect with your emotions to discover what needs they are trying to communicate and, most importantly, how to meet those needs in daily life. We will explore common needs related to different emotions like shame, fear, despair, hopelessness and anger.
Emotionally safe communication
How can we have discussions with people, sort out conflicts and communicate our needs in a way that is clear, empowering and doesn’t result in emotionally activating conversations? How do we bring our needs into conversations with people as well as be able to hear other people’s needs? This section will help us create much more empowering conversations in our lives, to be heard and to hear.
“I always felt like I could never get it together to be a success at my job. Working through this course has made me see that the only thing getting in the way of my success is my emotions. I had so much rage and shame, and that was blocking me. Working through these emotions has given me so much more confidence and energy to go for what I want in my job. I feel hopeful for the first time in decades!” – Tom
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