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Workshop: Getting Curious About Emotions

Join us for part 3 of the 6-part emotional literacy series! We’re getting curious about emotions, going beyond naming them! Don’t worry if you didn’t attend the first two workshop in this series. You will be able to understand what’s happening!

Why does emotional literacy matter?

Well, if we can’t identify how we feel, how can we explain it to others? If we can’t share our emotions with others, how can we connect with them? Likewise, if we have limited understanding of emotions, how can we support the people we love when they’re going through something tough?

Improving our emotional literacy is an important way to better understand ourselves and others, and essential to having healthy, deep, nurturing relationships with others. Emotional literacy helps us be the parents, partners, pals, and people, that we want to be!

So, how do we do it?!

In our introductory workshop in this series, we explored emotional literacy as charting a map. One of the early steps on our map is to get curious about our emotions — so that’s what we’re diving into now!

What does it mean to get curious about our emotions?

We can explore depth of our emotions through techniques like personification, which is where we separate ourselves from the emotion (e.g. “what would you tell your anger right now?) or add dimension to our understanding of emotions (beyond naming the emotion, what other dimensions can you give it? Think temperature, texture, direction, etc.). We’ll get into why these techniques can be important, and what kind of impact they can have on our understanding and processing of our emotions. That’s just the beginning, but there’s so much more to be explored!

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

In this 90-minute workshop, we will unpack:

  • How to understand our emotions using more dimensions (and why this is helpful!)

  • What is mindfulness? How can we practice it, and how does it connect to emotional literacy?

  • What is the role of relaxation and distraction in order to cope with emotions?

  • What is the role of memory in emotional literacy?

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 May 13 at 11am MT.

Notes on Cost:

  • Registration is 15% off for menbers and full price for non-menbers. Next Gen Menbership gets you discounts on workshops like this, NGM merch discounts, and access to a private online forum with even more events and discussions. If you are interested in becoming a menber, visit our website and become a monthly or annual supporter.

  • There are three sponsored spots available for participants who feel they could really benefit from the material, but may be experiencing financial hardship. If that sounds like you, please use the code 3FREE when you register.