Your Emotions Want to Help You.
Now’s the Time to Invite Them into Your Life.
Attending Live Sessions
Emotional Flow Live Session Dates
LIVE session on March 22, 2012, 8–9 p.m. ET
LIVE session on April 12, 2012, 8–9 p.m. ET
LIVE session on May 3, 2012, 8–9 p.m. ET
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Can’t make a live session? Don't worry! Recordings from live sessions will be available for download a few days after the session concludes.
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Course objectives:
- Indentify your areas of emotional mastery, blind spots, and situational challenges
- Discuss how your emotions interact to either suppress or support your energetic flow
- Practice naming your emotions to clarify and access them fully
- Practice five core Emotional Skills to ground yourself, create healthy boundaries, and free yourself from unhealthy emotional “knee-jerk” responses
- Discuss empathic Skills Training to resolve difficult relationships, to connect with others more deeply, and to keep yourself protected and emotionally flexible in any situation
- Practice healthy Emotional Flow with the support of video & audio sessions; in depth reading; online forums; weekly self-assessments & journaling; forum discussions; portable Language of Emotions cards & Emotional Vocabulary Guide; live online Q&A events; as well as numerous other daily practices.
Have you ever been swept up by your emotions—sadness, fear, jealousy, anger, or even too much exhilaration—and felt completely at sea? Or experienced a major life change … and felt strangely numb, disconnected, or confused?
Modern neuroscience reveals that our emotions are absolutely essential to every aspect of intelligence, perception, and consciousness—yet few of us were ever taught how to work with them skillfully.
Instead, most of us have learned to suppress or fight so-called bad emotions and pursue only the supposedly good ones.
The truth, teaches empathic counselor and author Karla McLaren, is that all of your emotions contain essential information that helps you experience your world fully—and the energy you require to act most effectively.
With the Emotional Flow online course, you are invited to learn how to access and flow with the full spectrum of your emotions.
An Immersive New Course for Mastering Your Emotional and Empathic Skills
Bringing together the core principles taught in her book The Language of Emotions with her newest insights and practices, Karla McLaren’s in-depth eight-week program will guide you step-by-step toward deep emotional mastery in any situation.
Each week, you’ll train and progress in a rich variety of ways, including:
- Audio and video sessions created exclusively for this course
- In-depth reading
- Weekly self-assessments and journaling
- Morning and evening practices to get emotionally grounded and tuned-in immediately
- Portable Language of Emotions cards and Emotional Vocabulary Guide in printable downloadable format
- Forum discussions, to share and learn with others
- Three live online Q&A events with Karla McLaren, and much more
If We All Feel Emotions, Why Do I Need This Course?
Even for those of us with a rich spiritual life and years of inner work, the demands and pressures today are immense. And just to make it through the day, most of us learned early in childhood to unconsciously ignore, suppress, or dismiss our emotions.
The good news is that with focused intention, we can quickly reconnect with this essential dimension of experience. That’s the purpose of this program. With weekly guidance, you will learn:
- How to identify your areas of emotional mastery, blind spots, and situational challenges
- How your emotions interact to either suppress or support your energetic flow
- The power of naming your emotions to clarify and access them fully
- Five core Emotional Skills to ground yourself, create healthy boundaries, and free yourself from unhealthy emotional “knee-jerk” responses
- Empathic Skills Training to resolve difficult relationships, connect with others more deeply, and keep yourself protected and emotionally flexible in any situation
- Stress Management “Un-training”—How labels like “stressed-out” or “frustrated” hide our true emotions, and how to bring true safety and emotional power to a challenging work or personal environment
With this foundation, you’ll then explore and train intensively in the four categories or families of emotion. The purpose? To feel, perceive, and live with clarity and strength in the emotional and social dimensions.
Engage with the Full Spectrum of Your Emotions
Here are some common questions that Karla asks her students:
Do you speak up for yourself, even during conflicts?
Can you move on from situations that aren't healthy or aren't working?
Are you comfortable talking about your talents and achievements?
Do you tend to remain calm and focused in emergencies, or do you fall apart?
Through her book and audio program, Karla McLaren has helped thousands with these challenges. But when it comes to emotions, she says, interactive guidance can be the key to developing a whole new level of emotional mastery.
With the Emotional Flow online training course, you’ll join her to build your skills systematically to tune in to your emotions, get them activated and moving, and use their gifts fully.
What You’ll Experience in This Course
Emotional Flow provides rich, multidimensional learning that includes:
Three live online events including Q&A: Join Karla McLaren via real-time video to ask questions and hear her as she responds in detail.
Video learning modules: Karla introduces you to each week's topics, explains the fundamental concepts and practices ahead, and shares many of her most recent insights.
Audio guidance: Every session includes downloadable audio files with guided practices, meditations, and “in-the-moment” strategies for working with intense emotions and situations. Listen at home or take them with you to enjoy anywhere.
Written content: Essential concepts from The Language of Emotions book with expanded insights. If you're already familiar with Karla McLaren’s standard reference on emotional mastery, you'll have plenty of further material to discover. If you’re new to her work, then you’ll be learning and training in the most effective format that she’s ever offered.
Journaling and self-reflection: Weekly questions to help you assess your emotional strengths and challenges, your current situational obstacles and supports, and your own emotional transformation plan.
Empathic roundtable: An online forum for mutual support and shared insights.
Plus: You’ll also be able to archive the entire program in downloadable format—all audio and videos sessions, recordings of the live events, and an ebook containing the written content. It’s yours to use and enjoy in your continuing emotional skills development at any time.
Session 1: Learning to Flow with Your Emotions
Course materials available Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Introduces the key principles and practices of emotional flow: the specific categories and purposes of our emotions, how we learn to suppress them, and the phenomenon of empathy. Karla also shares new insights into the role of emotions in learning, decision-making, social interactions, and general intelligence. Then participants learn the foundational practices that will be used throughout the course: the five Emotional Mindfulness Skills.
Session 2: Flowing into Emotional Mindfulness
Course materials available Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Explores the power of imaginal (versus imaginary) practices, how to balance the Five Elements, finding the “middle path” of optimal emotional flow, an introduction to thresholds and boundaries, and further training on the Five Emotional Mindfulness Skills: Grounding, Defining Boundaries, Rejuvenation, Conscious Complaining, and Burning Contracts. Also introduces the purpose and practice of identifying and naming our emotions, creating an interior sanctuary, and more.
This session will include a live online video event with Karla McLaren.
Session 3: Setting and Maintaining Healthy Boundaries: The Angers
Course materials available Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Why anger is necessary, the role of anger in protecting ourselves and setting your boundaries, how anger helps define our sense of self, how to work with different intensities of anger, emotional feedback loops, and the concepts of hatred and the shadow. Also clarifies in detail the emotions apathy, guilt, and shame, and how to work with them.
Session 4: Instinct, Intuition, and Action: The Fears
Course materials available Tuesday, April 3, 2012
The primal, biological roots of fear, how its purpose differs from that of anger, how the two emotions interact, and how to work with the protective, orienting energy of this crucial emotion. Karla will also explore new scientific research on anxiety and its connection to task completion and procrastination, how confusion can function as a mask for fear, the gifts of jealousy and envy, understanding panic attacks, and more.
Session 5: Release and Rejuvenation: The Sadnesses
Course materials available Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Explores the family of emotions that include sadness, despair, grief, situational depression, and the suicide urge. The sadnesses provide the means to let go and refill ourselves with new energies. This session shares new information on successfully working through depression, finding the optimal amount of personal space for sadness, and when distraction and entertainment can actually be beneficial. Also includes instructions for creating an effective and meaningful grief ritual.
This session will include a live online video event with Karla McLaren.
Session 6: Amusement, Appreciation, & Communion: The Happinesses
Course materials available Tuesday, April 17, 2012
This session investigates the myths that we hold about happiness, contentment, joy, and exhilaration, and explains their role in the larger domain of the emotions. Also introduces the forward-focused purpose of the happinesses, physical practices to support them, the concept of Emotion Work, and new information about positive thinking.
Session 7: Understanding the Physics of Stress and Resistance
Course materials available Tuesday, April 24, 2012
How labels such as “stress,” “discomfort,” “frustration,” and “concerned” can suppress, mask, and distort our true emotions. Explains how to create healthy boundaries and proper thresholds to engage with your true emotions, and situations when you should not be empathic. Also covers the alchemy of emotional resistance, Ethical Empathic Gossip, the concept of “emotional hygiene,” responding to injustice, and how to work with difficult environments, social structures, and relationships.
Session 8: Flowing with the Language of Emotions
Course materials available Tuesday, May 1, 2012
The final week will be devoted to reviewing and practicing the principles, practices, and skills learned during the course, and guidelines for continuing your training as you move forward. Content will also include: why love is not an emotion (and what it is), emotional dimensions unique to men, Emotion Shrines, expanding one’s sacred space within, and more.
This session will include a live online video event with Karla McLaren.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
To attend an event on a PC, the following is required:
- Internet Explorer 7.0 or newer, Mozilla Firefox 3.6 or newer, Chrome (JavaScript and Java enabled)
- Windows XP, Vista, and 7
- Cable modem, DSL, or better Internet connection
- Minimum of Pentium class 1GHz CPU with 512 MB of RAM (recommended) (2 GB of RAM for Windows Vista)
Mac users will need:
- Safari 5.0 or newer, or Firefox 3.6 or newer or Chrome (JavaScript and Java enabled)
- Mac OS X 10.5 or newer
- PowerPC G4/G5 or Intel processor (512 MB of RAM or more recommended)
- Cable modem, DSL, or better Internet connection
