How to Process Difficult Emotions for Returning Trainees (RTT25JUN25)

AvailabilityPlaces available (course only available for users whose main occupation is core specialty training (st1-st4) or foundation training or general practice training (st1-st4) or higher specialty training (st3-st8))  Add to basket
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, leading to greater calm, balance and clarity.
Additional information

Joining Instructions

This is a virtual course, the joining instructions for the virtual meeting will be added to the documents section (above) before the course. Please ensure that you are able to access this before the course so that you are ready to join on the day.

Booking cancellation

Participants must make every effort to attend courses they have booked. If your availability changes after booking, please cancel your place through Maxcourse as soon as possible. This will release the place for colleagues on the waiting list.

If you need to cancel within 1 week of the course or the course has started and you are not able to attend, please email england.lsfdcourses.yh@nhs.net to give your apologies.

VenueVirtual (Zoom), - Virtual  View details
Date & timeWednesday 25 June 2025, 09:30 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. IMG trainee doctors may also attend within their first 6 months of working within the NHS. (IMG = International Medical Graduate.) Please only book if you meet these criteria.

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 calm, clarity and equanimity, for your return to training, and for your work and life more broadly.

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 - creating mindful habits and ongoing calm

Learning outcomes

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

• Calmly acknowledge emotions as normal and containing valuable feedback.

• Regulate emotions and create stability when agitated or overwhelmed.

• Meet, feel 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.

• Be able to reflect and respond wisely when difficult emotions arise.

• Establish preventative habits that will help you get less swept up in difficult emotions.