How to Process Difficult Emotions (for Returning Trainees) (RTT22JAN25)

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SubjectSuppoRTT (Supported Return to Training)
DescriptionIn our everyday lives, we experience a range of emotions. This can be challenging to navigate and we may find ourselves in emotional reactivity. In this course, you’ll discover helpful strategies to recognise, process and respond to difficult emotions. As a result, you will access greater calm, balance and clarity.
Additional information

Online bookings will close 1 week prior to the course date but additional bookings may be made by emailing england.lsfdcourses.yh@nhs.net.

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 england.lsfdcourses.yh@nhs.net.

Please note that if you join the course more than 30 minutes late without communicating this to the team or facilitator, you will not be allowed to attend the course

VenueOnline (Zoom), - Virtual  View details
Date & timeWednesday 22 January 2025, 10:00 to 14:45
LecturerRachael Garside  View details
Target audience

This course is restricted to trainee doctors and dentists who are taking time out of training or who have returned to training within the last 3 months. Please only book if you meet this criteria. IMG trainee doctors may also attend within their first 6 months of working within the NHS. (IMG = International Medical Graduate.)

Mandatory: Dentist, or Doctor, or Public Health Professional

Course styleWorkshop
CateringNo catering
CPD points0.000
CostNo charge
Aims

Learn how to process difficult emotions in healthy and constructive ways, so you can enjoy more ease and equanimity.

Objectives

Common reactions to difficult emotions
Healthy ways of relating to difficult emotions:

  • Embracing emotions
  • Regulating emotions
  • Meeting emotions with mindful presence and compassion
  • Responding constructively

Preventative approaches that support equanimity.

Learning outcomes
  • Be less swept up in unhelpful patterns of reacting to difficult emotions.
  • Acknowledge difficult emotions from a kind and stable place.
  • Recognise the valuable feedback that emotions provide.
  • Be able to regulate emotions when agitated.
  • Learn how to mindfully meet difficult emotions, so that feelings can be felt and processed.
  • Respond wisely when difficult emotions arise.
  • Enjoy greater calm, centredness and clarity.
  • Experience less emotional turbulence.
  • Establish preventative habits that support equanimity.