How to Process Difficult Emotions (RTT13JUL23)

AvailabilityCourse was cancelled
SubjectSuppoRTT (Supported Return to Training)
DescriptionThis course will help you understand how to recognise and process your emotions in healthy ways. In our everyday lives, we experience a range of emotions including difficult ones such as anxiety, frustration, apprehension, anger, fear, inadequacy, sadness, and overwhelm. Common reactions to difficult emotions can exacerbate stress and produce downward spirals. By being able to see these mechanisms clearly, you can prepare the ground for more nourishing alternatives. As emotions can be unsettling, it is important to learn how to find your centre and generate more relaxation in the body. You will discover how to mindfully meet emotions with compassion, to separate emotions from thinking and urges, and to become grounded in presence. We will also explore preventative approaches – ways to cultivate an ongoing sense of calm, including meditation principles and practice. This enables us to be less triggered or swept up in the automatic chain reactions stemming from challenging emotions. You will leave the course with a toolkit of techniques to apply when difficult emotions arise, so that you experience less reactivity and more equanimity. These shifts lead to a balanced perspective, help you to navigate life’s ups and downs, support your well-being, and enhance your effectiveness. The course provides a solid footing for return to training and contributes to wider and longer-term impacts, personally and professionally.
Additional information

This course has been designed for supported return to training trainees only who are due to return or have recently returned to Training. Please DO NOT book if you do not meet this criteria.

Online bookings close 1 week prior to the course date but bookings can be made by emailing supportt.yh@hee.nhs.uk.

You can cancel your place online up to 1 week prior to the course, cancellations within the last week must be sent via email to supportt.yh@hee.nhs.uk

VenueVirtual (Zoom), - Virtual  View details
Date & timeThursday 13 July 2023, 10:00 to 14:45
LecturerRachael Garside  View details
Target audience

Mandatory: SuppoRTT Trainee

Course styleWorkshop
CateringNo catering
CPD points0.000
CostNo charge
Aims

This training aims to equip participants with the skills to acknowledge difficult emotions when they arise and to process them in healthy and constructive ways. The course also aims to support participants to develop mindful habits that will make emotional turbulence less likely. Together these skills will enable participants to manage their own experiences to promote more calm, clarity and equanimity in their return to work and their lives more broadly.

Objectives

Course content

· Common stress-exacerbating reactions to difficult emotions

· Healthy ways of relating to difficult emotions

       o Acknowledging emotions

       o Soothing the nervous system

       o Releasing and expressing

· Meeting emotions with mindful presence and compassion

· Avoiding the loop of reactivity

· Preventative approaches - cultivating an ongoing sense of calm

Learning outcomes

This course enables you to:

· Understand how common patterns of response to difficult emotions can exacerbate the stress we experience

· Calmly acknowledge emotions as normal and containing valuable feedback.

· Be able to create calm and stability when agitated.

· Learn how to meet, name and process emotions with mindful presence and compassion.

· Find the space between emotions, thinking and impulses, to free yourself from the loop of emotional reactivity and spiralling emotional states.

· Experience more balance and clarity, and an ability to wisely respond, through the application of a systematic approach when difficult emotions arise.

· Establish preventative habits for cultivating presence and calm, such as meditation, so that you are less likely to get swept up in difficult emotions.