Elastic emotions.

  • Common elements.

    The skills in Social-Emotional Learning, Emotional Intelligence, and those of generally good mental health are the same.

  • Anchored in rehearsal.

    Children practice the ways in which they see adults managing their feelings beginning early on. Changing what we practice changes the outcome.

  • Athletes of the self

    Emotional regulation, managing feelings, self-regulation grows and is mastered by practice. Whatever you practice persists. Practice the positive.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome to the course!

    • Ian: How to use this course
  • 2

    Elastic Emotions?

    • Overview
    • Learning begins when we're newborns
    • Family Challenges
    • About this handbook/course
  • 3

    The difference between emotions and feelings

    • The role emotions (and feelings) play in life
    • Emotions
    • Feelings
  • 4

    The Challenges

    • The first three years
    • Serving only adults' needs
    • The Alarm state
    • Media influence
  • 5

    The Goal

    • Feel what others seem to feel
  • 6

    Trauma, your body and movement

    • Freeze... then Fight/Flight
    • ..and then Immobility or Dissociation
    • How to express feelings in your body more safely
    • Work it out!--Big Muscle movement
  • 7

    Tool: Build a bigger vocabulary

    • More words: improving your vocabulary
    • Making meaning of the new words
    • Elastic Emotions Worksheet 1-Build Your Vocabulary
  • 8

    Tools: Feelings in the body

    • Feelings we have in common
    • Moving feelings around
    • Elastic Emotions Worksheet 2-Give your body credit
    • Elastic Emotions Worksheet 3-Pay attention to breathing
    • Elastic Emotions Worksheet 4-Install the positive
  • 9

    Tool: Find the choices

    • Elastic Emotions Worksheet 5-Find the choices
  • 10

    Tool: Checking for the evidence

    • How do you know?
    • Elastic Emotions Worksheet 6-Checking for evidence
  • 11

    Tool: Feel your feelings

    • Elastic Emotions Worksheet 7-Feel your feelings
  • 12

    Tool: Stop the blame

    • Elastic Emotions Worksheet 8-Stop blaming others
  • 13

    My Favorite Tool: The Victory Cycle

    • How it came to be
    • Changing the story
    • The Victory Cycle card--Print and Use
  • 14

    Resources for increasing your emotional elasticity

    • Those everloving apps
    • Real people real practice

Pricing options

This course by itself is $74.69. It is also part of several bundles.

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