Emotional Intelligence 101

A group for adults who want trauma informed education on how to work with emotions in the mind and body for lifelong wellbeing.

“Basic information to Live Better”

• Understand your emotions using the change triangle

• Calm your emotional mind and body

• Gain tools to ease anxiety and depression

• Understand your defenses and emotional challenges to move through them

  Details:

  Your Group facilitator: Caitlin Shiflett, LCSW

  Group Format: 90 minute sessions that will meet for 8 weeks including a weekly education segment, experiential exercises, and brief processing as a group

  When: Tuesday Evenings

  January 9 - February 27th

  5:30-7pm

  Where: Groups will take place Via Zoom

  Will there be homework ? Short answer is yes… BUT homework, just like the experiential exercises in class is optional. This is for your own exploration, growth, and what you have capacity for. Homework will be referenced in group as a way to check in with the experiences and shifts people are noticing.

  Fee: $400 for 8 weeks, 90 minute sessions ($50 per group)

  Payment can be made upfront, or in two installments

  (If other payment arrangements are needed please email

  workingwithin.therapy@gmail.com)

  Group session example

  Learn

• Anxiety - Using anxiety as a signal that there are deeper emotions, conflicts, and needs underneath

• Understand different anxiety pathways in the body

• Differentiate fear from anxiety

• Separate emotions into buckets

• Understand why we experience anxiety over our core emotions

  Experience

• Practice dropping into the body and staying present

• Give anxiety some attention and soothe it

• Begin to notice what is underneath the anxiety

• Exercises: Giving anxiety space, working the change triangle , grounding breath

  Integrate

• 15-20 Minutes processing as a group

• Homework (optional): Shaming messages exercise, The “shoulds” you encounter daily, Working with guilty Feelings

• Daily Meditation of your choice or practice grounding and breathing

• Journal Prompt: Write about an experience when you noticed anxiety and worked to soothe it. What did you find after the anxiety was quieted ?

  Disclaimer: A psycho-educational group is not a replacement for therapy and does not claim to resolve distress in the same way a 1:1 therapeutic relationship can. This is not therapeutic treatment, additionally this is not a trauma processing group where there will be adequate time to bring personal, detailed problems/memories to group. Please keep this in mind as you consider if this group is a good fit for your current needs. If you are currently in therapy, this is a great addition.