Emotional intelligence is about self-awareness, self-control, and the ability to keep your feelings in harmony with you and others. How competent you are at decoding and directing emotions correlates with your success in every kind of endeavor and has a major impact on your health.
The truth is that feelings control our behavior even when we think we are acting rationally. It's almost as if our emotions and thoughts sometimes have a mind of their own! While we try not to "lose our mind," our emotional brain naturally runs on autopilot much of the time. This can cause us to lose control over important outcomes in life.
Mindfulness, or the practice of listening to your mind's activities, gives you access to the executive "You" in your brain. Self-leadership is a practice, developed in mindfulness psychotherapy, that teaches you how to interact with the natural multiplicity and polarities within your complex mind to create order and balance.
With Self-Leadership, you can build your emotional intelligence to steer yourself into better decisions, better relationships, and better health.
THIS CLASS IS FOR YOU IF...
- Mindfulness is new to youand you want to learn about it more
- You want to add more depth and psychological insight to your practice of mindfulness or meditation
- You have tried to change a pattern in your life but keep getting stuck
- You want to feel more relaxed in stressful situations and improve your physical health
- You want an effective tool to deal with upsets in your marriage or other important relationship (attend alone or with partner)
CLASS SUMMARY FORMAT
This class is an experiential study of a form of mindfulness practice known as Self-Leadership. Self-Leadership is based on Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS). (IFS is not family therapy, nor does it deal directly with family issues.) Using its methods, you gain a productive way to grow emotional intelligence and respond more constructively to disruptive automatic thoughts, beliefs that interfere with your goals, feelings that are hard to manage or behaviors that you want to change.
The six-week class will use Jay Earley's book, Self-Therapy: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Inner Wholeness using IFS. Each session will consist of discussion of key concepts from the book and demonstrations. Work between classes will include reading chapters from the book and practicing exercises with a class-partner by phone. The course is not group therapy but will allow you to learn about yourself and share your discoveries at a level comfortable to you.
COURSE DETAILS
DATES: April 27-June1, 2011
(Six consecutive Wednesdays)
TIME: 5:30-7:30pm
LOCATION:
The Mindfulness Center 4963 ELM STREET, SUITE 100
BETHESDA, MD
FEE: $249 prior to 4/13; $299 after 4/13 (includes textbook & manual)
REGISTRATION: www.themindfulnesscenter.com
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