This mini-series provides an introduction to how to work with emotions, particularly anger, and how we might attend to the emotions we experience within our body. Included are a series of guided practices that may be helpful in attending to our emotions, and how we may guide our feelings in ways in order to re-frame and allow us to engage more constructively to our day-to-day life.

Emotion Talks & Guided Meditation Practices: A Mini-Course Series by Eve Ekman

An online meeting with Dr. Eve Ekman, who explores the topic of burnout prevention and the foundations of emotional balance. This session is both a valuable introduction to the science of emotions for those new to it and an important reminder to experienced practitioners.

Dr. Eve Ekman is a contemplative social scientist and teacher in the field of emotional awareness and burnout prevention. She is the co-lead instructor for CEB, an evidence-based emotional awareness training created by Dr. Paul Ekman and Buddhist scholar & teacher Lama Alan Wallace. The CEB training invites participants to investigate their driving motivations, as well as the roots of their destructive emotional episodes through tools of meditative practice and in-depth analysis of emotional events. Her workbook on Cultivating Emotional Balance, co-authored with Ryan Redman, is coming out from Wisdom Publications in 2023.

VIDEO VERSION: https://youtu.be/LdQYs8YLqTs

Open Talks

Eve Ekman – Preventing Burnout and Cultivating Emotional Balance

This brief talk discusses the attention we bring to our body when we have felt emotions. This attention to our body and its sensations refers to "interoceptive awareness". Led by Eve Ekman, this talk guides the listener to ways we can attend to our experienced emotions - head, face, body, physiological sensations. In attending to our emotions, we can be aware and respond in more proactive ways.

Embodied Emotion Talk

An accompanying practice in the talk on embodied emotions. Led by Eve Ekman.

Handshake With Emotions

How do our emotions intertwine with our stress? Stress is a natural part of our life. It can be adaptive when it moves us, motivates us to take action. When we have the resources and means to take on a challenge, we may feel adequate in taking on a stressor. Alternatively, when we don't have the resources and means to meet the stressor or demands in our life, this can become overwhelming. 

Our appraisal (or evaluation) of a stressor can also play a role in how we then feel about taking on a stressor. Attending to our emotion can help us be proactive in handling our stress. 

A brief talk led by Eve Ekman.

Emotions and Stress Talk

Handshake Practice with Emotion 2

A practice of attending to the felt experience of the body -- cultivating greater depth of awareness of our experiences in order to allow us to gain greater awareness of our feelings that may occur with experiential sensations.

A practice led by Eve Ekman.

Handshake Practice with Emotion 1

“Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work."  – Thich Nhat Hanh 

This is a free account for guided practices in mindfulness meditation.  People often don't spend time in the day for themselves. Give yourself a small treat and sit quietly with yourself for a few minutes, using these recordings to support you in your state of peace. 

Emotions and Stress Talk

Cultivating Emotional Balance

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