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Yolanda Pourciau, MS
I created Minding Our Own Emotional Business at a time in our collective history when it seemed that many, in our homes, in our schools, in our communities and in our workplaces, felt that the “other” was responsible for their feelings. “If only the world and its people would just act right, I’d be okay!” we declared. We seldomly took our own emotional temperatures.
I believe that the more leaders, employees, team members, communities, and families learn about how our human emotions work and how to manage the stress of upsetting emotions, the greater our chances of having creative, productive, and safe social environments.
The New Frontier- The Interior
It is often said that “the new frontier is the interior” because while we all have an interior life, we spend far too much of our time in exploration of the outer world exclusively. This presentation will help participants learn to comfortably look within and courageously manage their own world of emotions.
Self-Management
Most humans have at some point responded emotionally in ways we wished we had not. Anger, frustration, and fear have moved us in ways that at times seemed beyond our control. After an emotional episode, exhausted and embarrassed, we might wonder why we got so upset so quick.
We can and must learn early detection and regulation of our own emotions.
The Science of Our Emotions
In Minding Our Own Emotional Business, I highlight the role of the fight, flight, freeze, fawn stress response (4Fs Stress Response) and the amygdala in alerting us to danger and stress. This information is critical to understanding and managing our reactions.
If we experience stress regularly, like in a demanding job or stressful marriage, our fight flight freeze fawn response may be overactive. Overactive fight flight freeze fawn responses can lead to anxiety, depression, and hypertension. We must, to some extent, decide to relax. In this training, if you are open, you will relax.
Our Interpretations of Situations
Minding Our Own Emotional Business aims to teach participants to become curious about their personal interpretations of life situations. As participants become more curious and responsible for their interpretations of life situations, the better able they are to mind their own emotional business. It doesn’t take long for participants to realize that two people in the same situation could respond very differently to an external stimulus.
The Relaxation Response
In Minding Our Own Emotional Business, participants have opportunities to learn and practice grounding, simple yoga exercises, and the relaxation response. Few things give me more joy as a trainer and motivator, than to guide a group of 50 to 100 people into deep silence and stillness and to watch them slowly come back, yawning, arms stretching, declaring, “that was good!”
Self-Care
We must begin with ourselves.
Emotional Intelligence
Maturity is our responsibility.
Inclusion
I am my brother's keeper.
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