Cultivating Emotional Balance (CEB) is a research validated educational program designed to improve emotional well being and relationships with others. It integrates modern psychology, emotion science and evidence based contemplative practices into an educational program of both learning and practice. CEB will help you manage emotional distress, build healthy emotional boundaries and supports living a more balanced and compassionate life.
Emotions are complex psychological and physical phenomena that influence our behavior, cognition, and social interactions. Emotion researchers have found that regardless of age, culture or life circumstances, all human beings experience these five Universal Emotions. In CEB we explore these emotions in depth, learning their evolutionary purpose and the difficulties that arise in the modern world when powerful emotions are triggered. We also learn several evidence based tools for working with difficult emotions without suppressing or repressing our emotional experience.
Emotional balance is defined as having awareness of one’s own and others’ emotional behaviors, experiences and triggers as they arise. And from this awareness, making wise choices, while engaging with the emotional experience. The contemplative practices and psychological tools used in CEB will help you develop more balance in your emotional experiences and responses.
Emotions unfold on a timeline. The timeline begins with a trigger that initiates an emotional experience and ultimately results in a response. In the CEB training we will explore each aspect of the Emotional Episode Timeline both conceptually and experientially. In CEB you will gain a better understanding of your own unique connection to emotional episodes, improve your emotional awareness and learn constructive ways to engage with your own and others' emotional experiences.
CEB integrates emotion science with mindfulness and research-supported contemplative practices. Mindfulness practice improves your awareness and control of stress responses and improves your interoception, which is your ability to sense internal signals in the body. Interoception is a fundamental skill for developing emotional awareness and emotional balance.
