Relational/Emotional Discovery Workshop: Primary Emotions -- Key Discoveries

Participants in this workshop learn about successful relational skills, managing their emotions — including anxiety and depression — and effective intervention and treatment strategies, all in the context of a supportive group environment.  Sharing, supporting, and encouraging one another, while learning new perspectives and meaningful skills, as well as adopting the strategies that work best for each participant.

This small group 10-session workshop is held at my office at 313 Main Street in Rockland, on Wednesdays, 4:15–5:45 PM. This week, the first session focused on:

    Workshop III (3/21): Primary Emotions: Key Discoveries — Participants further explored more discoveries around primary emotions and what they mean to experience. Important within that is discovering that emotions are not a state, but a response, and always occurring. Also discovering that we are not our emotions, but something we have, that vary in intensity, and tell us what is best or not best for us.

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In addition to drawing from clinical experience working with patients since 1999, this workshop is based on evidence from many protocols and investigations, including: Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders – Boston University; Relational Model — Stone Center, Wellesley College; Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology — University of Glasgow; Adult Neurogenesis & Mental Health — Kings College London; Harvard Study of Adult Development — Harvard Medical School.