Learn how to process difficult emotions in healthy and constructive ways, so you can enjoy more ease, equanimity and clarity.
WORKPLACE TRAINING
Our everyday work and personal lives contain many events, circumstances and stimuli that can provoke difficult emotions. It is common to experience a range of emotions, including anxiety, frustration, embarrassment, apprehension, disappointment, anger, guilt, hopelessness, resentment, envy, inadequacy, sadness, and overwhelm. However, many of us have not yet learned the best ways to approach these feelings and it can be easy to go into emotional reactivity. We may get derailed, stuck, lost, or drained. Negative impacts can linger. Our ability to function well can easily get compromised.
In this course, you will learn how to recognise, regulate and process your emotions. We will also look at how to reflect and respond in a skilful way. You will leave the course with a toolkit of strategies to apply when difficult emotions arise. We will also explore some proactive approaches to reduce the likelihood of emotional turbulence arising in the first place.
As a result, you will have more energy and headspace for what is in front of you. You will access greater calm, balance, and clarity. These shifts will help you to better manage life’s challenges and demands; enhance your well-being and quality of life; protect your cognitive capacity; and increase your effectiveness in the workplace, and beyond.
This training is approached with sensitivity and with care.
Training length – 1 short day
Why?
- Be less swept up in unhelpful patterns of reacting to difficult emotions.
- Cultivate healthy responses to difficult emotions.
- Acknowledge difficult emotions from a kind and stable place.
- Recognise the valuable feedback that emotions provide.
- Be able to regulate your emotions.
- Learn how to mindfully meet difficult emotions, so that feelings can be felt and processed.
- Recognise the component parts of emotions.
- Reflect from a clear and centred place.
- Respond skilfully to the difficult emotion and to the particular context.
- Establish preventative habits that support equanimity.
- Enjoy greater calm, centredness and clarity.
- Experience less emotional turbulence.
Training overview
We can easily get caught up in unhelpful reactions to difficult emotions, such as judging ourselves, suppressing feelings, numbing, avoiding, and identifying with the emotion. This can exacerbate stress and feed into distorted thinking, impulsive reactions, and downward spirals. In this course, we’ll explore a range of accessible, nourishing alternatives, so you are more able to process emotions healthily and respond constructively.
Difficult emotions are part of the human experience and they can contain valuable feedback. In connecting with this, we can hold emotions more lightly and with more trust. As some emotions can be unsettling and can produce overwhelm and reactivity, it is important to have some strategies for regulating emotional intensity. Additionally, we can gently learn to turn towards emotions from a stable and kind place. In this way, we increase our capacity to feel feelings, so they can move through and be processed. We also see more clearly the loop of reactive thinking and urges, stemming from the emotion, and we become more able to not be swept up in that.
From a place of greater stability and clarity, we can now reflect and, as a result, we can discern constructive responses to the emotions. This enables us to make the most of the messages available from the emotion, leading us to more insight, peace, happiness and fulfilment,
We will look at preventative approaches, such as acquainting ourselves with our emotions on a regular basis and promoting ongoing calm. It follows that we are less easily triggered and can more readily regain equilibrium.
This course is a wonderful opportunity to learn valuable approaches for navigating the challenging emotions that we all experience.
Training themes
- Common reactions to difficult emotions that exacerbate stress
- Healthy ways of relating to difficult emotions
- Embracing emotions
- Regulating emotions
- Meeting emotions with mindful presence and compassion
- Responding to emotions
- Preventative approaches that support equanimity
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”Virgina Wolfe
Group size
Recommended maximum group size is 14
Feedback
Here’s what some people had to say…
“Really enthusiastic facilitator with just the right amount of discussion and a steady pace.”
“Thank you very much for today’s session. I had some real moments of enlightenment.”
“Since attending your course, I have found myself a lot more composed and calm. Thanks for your invaluable sharing.”
“I was surprised how much I enjoyed the course as I find processing emotions tricky but felt comfortable throughout the day and able to challenge myself without feeling overwhelmed.”
“Really helpful, thank you.”
“Very engaging.”
“Some very helpful pointers and practical tips on how to handle challenges which seem otherwise insurmountable.”
“Powerful. We don’t get taught this at home or school. This will make a huge difference.”
“This was an excellent course, it worked well online and encouraged participation throughout.”
“The facilitator was excellent and it was an excellent mix of discussing why difficult emotions occur and what we can do to process them better to get more calm in our lives.”
“I really enjoyed this course and would definitely recommend to a colleague.”
“It was concise and clear from the start.”
“Setting aside some time to go to this course has given me ways to deal with the stresses that have inevitably arisen.”
“The course notes are really helpful and I think the course runs really well online and is a very supportive environment.”
“I wish I had had these tools before!”
Register your interest in this How to Process Difficult Emotions Course
To discuss the above and find out how this could work in your organisation, please get in touch with me, Rachael, either by filling in the form below or calling 07876 495 968.