Presented by Gordon Neufeld, Ph.D.
There is much focus today on children’s emotions. Constructs like emotional intelligence, emotional self-regulation, emotional well-being and emotional social learning are being bandied about like never before. Emotion, long dismissed as a nuisance factor, is now confirmed to be at the core of development and well-being. Yet little is being taught about the nature of emotion or the implications for working with children and families. In this course, Dr. Neufeld does a brilliant job of putting the pieces together to make sense of emotion, revealing the emotional roots of many behavioural problems, and clarifying the challenges for helping professionals.
This material is absolutely foundational to an understanding of human nature. New revelations about the nature of emotion have shed fresh light on the pivotal role of feelings in play, brain development, discipline problems, attention problems, mental health issues and much more. In this course, Dr. Neufeld distils the current scientific knowledge on emotion to three basic laws and discusses the implications of each of these laws for parenting and teaching as well as the treatment of children. Neufeld also outlines five basic steps to emotional health and development so adults can foster emotional well-being and get to the root of such problems as alarm, anxiety, agitation, aggression, impulsiveness, lack of empathy, bullying, and so on. This course is powerful in the insight it provides as well as the changes it inspires.
Learning Objectives:
- to cultivate an appreciation of the pivotal role of emotion in development, perception and behaviour
- to develop a language of emotion that can be used to reframe problems, lead to solutions, and provide access to intuition
- to understand how emotional development unfolds, so as not to get caught in a battle against symptoms or sabotage the process by pushing for results
- to be aware of the overall purpose of emotion as well as the purpose of individual emotions
- to build a working model of emotion that can be applied across situations
- to outline the five stages of emotional development so healthy maturation can be fostered
- to be able recognize and address the emotional roots of behaviour problems
For more information and to register, please visit: http://www.jackhirose.com/workshop/neufeld-emotions-vancouver/