Intro-M1: Why Does Everything Have to Be So Dramatic?
What you’ll learn:
Why you and your loved one seem to see situations so differently?
How their perceptions affect their behaviour.
Why our usual ways of responding to loved ones who make a big deal out of seemingly trivial problems, may not be working.
How using skills that honour both your perspective and your loved one's can improve your relationship and help you to support them more effectively.
Intro-M2: I Thought I Taught You Better Than That!
What you’ll learn:
How and why our brains naturally and automatically label experiences as good, bad, or neutral.
How to pay attention to the thoughts and feelings and automatic “call to action” that arise when our loved one says or does something we find unacceptable.
How using skills to consider the value of following this urge versus taking a more measured approach, can help us to live up to our values as parents and role models.
Intro-M3: Can You Just Calm Down!
What you’ll learn:
What happens when the “thinking” part of our brains go offline and why our loved ones are so susceptible.
How overwhelming emotions relate to problem behaviours.
How to recognize factors that contribute to emotions becoming overwhelming.
The role our emotions play in helping our loved ones.
Intro-M4: How am I Supposed to Think Straight When Life is so Chaotic?
What you’ll learn:
How to recognize the features of emotions and the importance of being able to name them.
How to recognize surface and underlying emotions and the value of examining “what’s underneath”.
How to bring the intensity of emotions down so we can think more clearly and have more options for responding effectively.
Daily practices that can protect us from becoming emotionally and physically depleted so we’re better able to cope when difficult situations arise.
Intro-M5: I Don’t Think I Can Take Much More of This!
What you’ll learn:
The effect that “bottling up” our emotions has on our physical and mental health.
That we can stop fighting against a situation that is different than what we want, without giving up or giving in.
That focussing on what we have and what is possible, can bring both peace and progress.
How to attend to feelings of loss that come up when we let go of what we want so we can maintain our own mental health and effectively support our loved ones.
