EQ WORKSHOP

I did a workshop on EI. I cant remember all of it, but we were all sent questionnaires to complete before the course and then these were discussed. We did a couple of roleplay exercises which was basically about a work situation where you had a load of work dumped on you and needed to diplomatically deal with it .. whilst getting your needs met and understood and another oroleplay ne .. cant remember the theme of that, but we had a lot of talks and diagrams .. maslow came into it somewhere I think. Could go and fish out the handouts if you like and pm you details?

Yes please Megan if you could would appreciate it, thank you.
I will be doing one same scene/roleplay with 3 different possible emotions displayed.

Chris

I just made this up then, but it might work...

All emotions are the result of thoughts (and if you can't find an emotion's parent Neuroplant (see Mind Garden: the Natural Religion at dreamvine dot org for clarification) you just have to look harder.

So the exercise could involve you telling everyone to think a particular thought, and try to feel a particular emotion (or in the opposite order).

In this way, the class members will be able to FEEL a thought actually creating an emotion. Obviously there would be more detailed strategies to ensure the creation of the actual emotion, but still, it would be very interesting.

When they can see that their thoughts are in charge (not their emotions) they will be more confident to effectively evolve past their emotions and grow etc.