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How To Master Your Emotions
With Matthew & ChantalJuggling multiple, different, and new responsibilities in the face of unrelenting uncertainty requires a different set of tools and practices than those we currently have. Now, more than ever, learning to thrive in an uncertain, unstable world requires sustained emotional resilience and psychological robustness. Very few of us have been taught how to appropriately express, manage, and regulate our emotions. Many of us feel that we are at the mercy of our emotions, when in fact we can master our emotions. In this 10-day course, you will learn about the science of how emotions are made, the importance of being able to regulate how you feel, and a way to work with emotions that are both easy to learn and easy to use. You will be introduced to Shape of Emotion, a model, process, and tool of how we structure, store, represent and regulate our inner feeling states. You will be given an overview of the design of Shape of Emotion as well as how it works. Each lesson is framed by one or two of the 12 principles that underpin this work. At the end of each day, a short practice will help consolidate the session and deepen your understanding and use of Shape of Emotion.
Learn about the science of how emotions are made, the importance of being able to regulate how you feel, and how to best work with them.
About this course
Juggling multiple, different, and new responsibilities in the face of unrelenting uncertainty requires a different set of tools and practices than those we currently have. Now, more than ever, learning to thrive in an uncertain, unstable world requires sustained emotional resilience and psychological robustness. Very few of us have been taught how to appropriately express, manage, and regulate our emotions. Many of us feel that we are at the mercy of our emotions, when in fact we can master our emotions. In this 10-day course, you will learn about the science of how emotions are made, the importance of being able to regulate how you feel, and a way to work with emotions that are both easy to learn and easy to use. You will be introduced to Shape of Emotion, a model, process, and tool of how we structure, store, represent and regulate our inner feeling states. You will be given an overview of the design of Shape of Emotion as well as how it works. Each lesson is framed by one or two of the 12 principles that underpin this work. At the end of each day, a short practice will help consolidate the session and deepen your understanding and use of Shape of Emotion.
Meet your Teacher
Matthew & Chantal support the physical and emotional wellbeing of people by enabling them to regulate how they feel. They have developed a way to gently and easily release stuck emotions, which can lead to depression, anxiety, increased stress, and physical illness, allowing for a return to a centered and resourceful state. It's called Shape of Emotion and is used in their live session Emotional Fitness Classes here on Insight Timer. Matthew deeply engages with his work, his clients, and his desire to make the world a better place. A voracious appetite to learn and understand has allowed him to research wide and deep, building on his extensive knowledge of healing and human behavior. He partners with his clients to take them from good to great, offering a safe and held space to explore hidden, deeply held issues that lie at the core of their performance hurdles. Matthew focuses on offering specialized psychological services for high achievers, including tools and strategies, in the form of coaching and therapy for immediate relief from stress, anxiety, burnout, and other mental health challenges. Matthew has been meditating since he was 10 years old, is a qualified aromatherapist, EFT practitioner, and coach. He's studied Waldorf education, NLP, and has been researching and working with human development potential for the last 29 years. His favorite maxim is: “If you don’t know where you are, how can you move to somewhere else?” Matthew is the co-founder of 5th Place and co-creator of Shape of Emotion. Chantal sees potential, works with possibility, and partners with her clients to become more. She focuses on balance and flexibility, building emotional resilience, encouraging curiosity, and nurturing self-care. Chantal offers a holistic, inclusive approach that is heart-centered, clear-sighted, and results in sustainable changes in being and behavior. She assists her clients to transcend their worn-out narratives, and helps ignite the inspiration to create a new story. Chantal challenges those she works with to look beyond what they believe to be true, to step out of drama and into humanity. She supports learning journeys, advocates for greater awareness about mental health issues and emotional wellbeing, and co-creates and facilitates personal, group and team change. Chantal is a writer and a speaker. She writes what's on her mind and close to her heart. Her poetry offers a window to her spirit. Chantal is a credentialed coach and registered coach supervisor with COMENSA (Coaches and Mentors of South Africa) and a past chairperson of the Research and Supervision Portfolio Committees. She is a qualified teacher, a Neuro-Linguistic practitioner, and has an MPhil in Management Coaching (cum laude) through the University of Stellenbosch Business School. Matthew and Chantal are the co-founders of 5th Place and co-creator of Shape of Emotion.