Emotions and their impact
- Cognitive theories of emotions.
- External and internal stimuli.
- The pleasant and harmful consequences of emotional states: on yourself and on others.
- Stressors and emotions.
- Sympathy, empathy and antipathy.
- Emotions determine action or inaction.
Hands-on work
Write a personal inventory of your emotional states and their impacts.
How to identify your emotions and their consequences.
- The Event-Thought-Emotion-Behavior dynamic.
- Our thoughts are the source of all our emotions.
- Energizing emotions: joy, pleasure, calm, serenity, satisfaction, motivation.
- Unpleasant emotions: anxiety, fear, sadness, regret, hostility, guilt, depression, discouragement.
- Adapted (helpful) and maladaptive (harmful) emotional stress.
- The effects of emotions on our relationships and communications.
- Constructive and detrimental consequences.
- Spontaneous thoughts.
Hands-on work
Emotional self-evaluation test and assessment.
How to manage your emotions.
- Managing emotional stress.
- Channeling stress by choosing how to react.
- Dealing positively with pressures.
- Being assertive rather than running away, being passive or aggressive.
- Motivating ourselves positively by letting go of our negative and unrealistic thoughts.
- Maintaining a rational attitude and realistic perceptions.
- Dealing with situations based on emotional levels.
- Defusing our emotions and those of others.
Hands-on work
Role-playing assertiveness and defusing aggressive attitudes.
Practicing emotional control
- Helpful tools to control your emotions.
- Confronting thoughts that cause harmful emotions.
- Specific confrontational issues.
- The relaxation technique: positions and approach.
Hands-on work
Exercise to confront spontaneous thoughts and cognitive distortions. Exercise to apply a relaxation technique.
Coming up with a custom action plan
- Set and design cognitive and behavioral progress goals.
Hands-on work
Draft an individual action plan for managing emotions.
2d
- 14h00 
