Emotions Masterclass

Class Details:

• Each class is held for one hour and costs only $25. 
• It is a live video class on Zoom where you will learn concepts and practice them in dialogue with me and your classmates.
• Each class is recorded so that those who cannot make it can watch the replay.
• Consent matters! If you are attending live and prefer to have your video off and change your name, please do so. If you do not want to participate in the practice sessions, that is an option as well.
• There are only spots for 25 people to attend live, so if you do register to be there, show up, please!

What’s The Big Deal About Emotions?

All emotions are simply messengers. They show up to alert us to needs that are either being met (pleasurable emotions) or not being met (painful emotions). Think of them as your information buddies. 😉

When you can be with your emotions long enough to receive their information, you’re able to more clearly identify your needs, and from there, you can communicate them more effectively. 

What if some emotions don’t feel safe? What if you have a habit of ignoring or suppressing your emotions?

Most of us had some experience of severe pain associated with another’s emotions, and if you grew up experiencing violence or neglect, it’s especially difficult to feel safe around emotions.

The thing is, it’s not the emotions that are dangerous. It’s the actions people choose to take when they have big emotions that can be scary and harmful.

Feel Your Feels

It’s important to feel safe enough with emotions to be able to receive their information, and we can do that by embodying our emotions. That is, feel them! Make space for them in your body. Welcome them as the allies they are. 

When you embody your emotions and recognize the needs they are alerting you to, you’re much more able to have empathy for yourself and others and to stay connected even when you have disagreements.

From that place, you’ll be able to much more effectively communicate with others; especially your intimate partner, close friends, and family members.

Social Activism

Now, more than ever, emotional intelligence is critical because we have many big, global problems that we need to solve together, and the old models of thinking and acting will not work to solve them.

We need to be able to see our shared humanity in all other humans instead of creating an enemy image of them. This way we can cooperate and negotiate ways to try and meet everyone’s needs.

This model of thinking and acting is one of Power-With instead of Power-Over. It is based on invitation and consent instead of force. And it all starts with being able to recognize our feelings and needs.

How you treat yourself and talk to yourself is what you’ll naturally do with others, so it must start with creating understanding and acknowledging your own feelings and needs, and having empathy for yourself.

What You Will Learn

In the Emotions Masterclass, you will learn how to see yourself and others as a human with feelings and needs who uses strategies (that sometimes aren’t effective) to meet those needs instead of as a bad or good person.

You will learn how to identify and name your feelings and embody them so you feel safe enough to receive their information. After you learn to do this for yourself you will learn how to do it for others.

You will also learn how to recognize the needs that your emotions are alerting you to and how to effectively communicate them with others so you feel happy, more connected, and have cooperation and peace in your relationships instead of fighting or resigning.