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- How might it be to feel as comfortable with anger and grief as joy or pleasure?
- What if you could confidently express what you felt, what you needed, no matter what the circumstance or whom you were with?
- How would it be to choose how to respond to your feelings?
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Becoming more aware of our emotions and feelings, understanding what they are, seeing where they come from and listening to what they tell us about needs (those of others as well as our own) is fundamental to individual, team and leadership effectiveness.
This two hour, fast-paced, high energy, workshop actively explores our emotional energy and capacity at the core of personal and professional success. Participants will engage in a facilitated processes and discussions to deepen awareness and understanding of emotions as a powerful source of energy, wisdom, self-awareness and direction.
What will I get out of participation?
Through observing your feelings, and using them effectively, you will become more able to negotiate and influence the change you really want to see.
• Gain confidence in dealing effectively with emotional situations;
• Experience how you can choose and influence the interplay of intellectual thought, emotional feeling and physical sensation;
• Listen more attentively to what your feelings might be telling you and become empowered by consciously choosing more effective responses;
Workshop format
Experiential: mixture of small and large group work.
While there will be information pieces, these are positioned as points of view to stimulate new ways of thinking. The emphasis will be to draw on the experiences, stories and beliefs existing within the group.
• We begin by centering - learning how to find our physical centre of balance and to use our breath to find a state of emotional calm and mental stillness
• We will start to identify, acknowledge and give voice to our range of emotions by:
- Developing practices of ‘staying’ with feelings, the good and less good and tune into what they might be telling us;
- Employing strategies and tactics to avoid the uncomfortable, ‘unpleasant’ feelings and compare the benefits and downsides of such a strategy.
• We will learn tools for accepting and letting go of unwanted feelings.
• Having increased our capacity to observe emotions, we will look at the language for bettering our relationships with people, circumstances and environments.
The workshop takes its name from a series of moves in Tai Chi, where the student is asked to take charge of the energy within them, represented by a wilful Tiger. To attain self-mastery, the Tiger needs to be brought under control before riding him to the Mountain (which symbolises inner peace and stillness).
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