Training: Understand and master your emotional skills

Emotions and their impacts

• Cognitive theories of emotions
• External and internal stimuli
• The pleasant and harmful consequences of emotional states: on oneself and on others
• Stressors and emotions
• Sympathy, empathy and antipathy
• Emotions determine action or inaction

How to identify your emotions and their consequences?

• The Event-Thought-Emotion-Behavior dynamic
• Our thoughts are the source of all our emotions
• Energizing emotions: joy, pleasure, calm, serenity, satisfaction, motivation
• Unpleasant emotions: anxiety, fear, sadness, regret, hostility, guilt, depression, discouragement
• Emotional stress adapted (useful) and inappropriate (harmful)
• The effects of emotions on our relationships and communications
• The constructive and harmful consequences
• Spontaneous thoughts

How to manage your emotions?

• Manage emotional stress
• Channel your stress through the choice of your reactions
• Coping positively with pressures
• Be assertive rather than run away, be passive or attack
• Motivate yourself positively by giving up our negative and unrealistic thoughts
• Maintain a rational attitude and realistic perceptions
• Treat situations according to emotional levels
• Defuse our emotions and those of others

Practice controlling your emotions

• The practical tools for controlling your emotions
• The confrontation of thoughts causing harmful emotions
• Specific confrontation questions
• The relaxation technique: positions and approach

Develop a personalized action plan

• Set and design cognitive and behavioral progress goals