Emotional well-being is the next frontier of health and a central challenge of the 21st century, according to U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy.
Dacher Keltner, Berkeley Professor and scientific consultant on Pixar’s Inside Out and Inside Out 2, will tour the latest science and practice of emotional well-being. In this workshop, he will consider emotions in the body and brain, emotional expression and intelligence, how emotions influence relationships, narratives, and search for meaning, and emotional regulation, wisdom, and acceptance.
Grounded in these advances, you will:
- Explore the power language and culture has in shaping our capacity to understand emotions in a granular and complex way.
- Gain awareness of your own core passions and how they guide your sense of identity and meaning.
- Become skilled in the practice of emotional intelligence and in expressing and seeing emotion in others clearly and with authenticity.
- Gain an understanding of the centrality of emotions to relationships and how to cultivate kindness, forgiveness, love, and play.
- Learn tools for emotional regulation, how to gain perspective while experiencing hard emotions such as anger and shame, and to practice acceptance by seeing the wisdom of emotions.
- Gain insights into cultivating emotions beneficial for intimate and work relations.
- Understand the role of emotions in your personal, moral, and spiritual lives.
The right balance of emotions could make up a majority of your well-being, and this course will provide the insights, tools, and practices to move you toward greater meaning in life.
