Why should men care about emotional literacy?

Well, learning to identify, process, and express our emotions in ways that are consistent with our values and boundaries (and the boundaries of others) can help us have better relationships with both ourselves and others!

So how do we do this?

In our introductory workshop in this series, we explored emotional literacy as charting a map. One of the very first destinations on our map is to learn to name our emotions — so that’s what we’re diving into now!

This might sound simple, there are 5 emotions: happy, sad, disgusted, afraid, and angry… that’s it, right?

Turns out, there are many more emotions we can learn to identify!

We also want to understand how we even know which emotion we’re feeling — how can we tell it’s annoyance and not anger? How do we know if it’s shame or embarrassment? Why does it matter to distinguish them?

We want to better understand how to listen to the signals our bodies are sending us. How do we match a sensation with an emotion?

Joining us (once again!) to lead this workshop is registered psychotherapist Emma Ocean.

In this 90-minute workshop, we will practice:

• Grounding: how to make space to look inward

• Interoception: how we identify body sensations & link them to emotions

• Naming emotions through tools like the emotions wheel (and discuss why this matters!)

• How to track emotions to become more in tune with how we’re feeling and when

Transformation is an ongoing journey, and this is another step! Together, we are learning to:

• Understand ourselves and others better

• Respond intentionally (rather than react)

• Get clear on what we want and how to ask for it

• Be better able to support the people we care about

Join us on Saturday April 1st at 11:00am Mountain Time (and no, it's not an April Fool's joke!). Don’t worry if you didn’t attend the first workshop in this series. You will be able to understand what’s happening :)