Anger and Loving Kindness + Sadness and Compassion with Eve Ekman
Channel: SF Dharma Collective
Date: 11/06/2023

Emotions can dramatically help or hinder us in leading productive, purposeful, and compassionate lives. We are not born with clear instructions on how to work with them. Contemplative scientists have shown that meditation training supports emotion regulation and awareness, a key ingredient to wellbeing and stress resilience. This course weaves insights from contemporary Social, Cognitive, and Buddhist Psychology lenses to understand and transform our emotional lives.

This workshop is led by contemplative scientist, practitioner, and teacher Eve Ekman who co-created the Atlas of Emotions and is a lead teacher of the evidenced-based Cultivating Emotional Balance Training. 

The workshop includes teachings on the scientific and contemplative foundations of emotional awareness, guided meditations and reflective practices to develop mindful awareness and compassion for our mental and emotional patterns and habits, discussion and small group work to investigate the roots of our emotions through mapping of our emotional episodes.
 
Activities include:
 - Identify and understand personal triggers of emotions and their antidotes
 - Reflect on constructive, helpful ways to responding to difficult emotions
 - Explore the  embodied experiences of emotion
 - Practice “emotion mapping” through a visual narrative tool 
 - Create intentions that support a balanced emotional life
 - Gain familiarity with the four “virtues of the heart”
 - Engage in writing, guided visualization, and dyad exercises to help regulate and enrich emotions