
Getting Unhooked: Emotional Agility for Men
Winter 2019
taught by John Guy, LMHC
Course Description
Many people have been socialized to be rational and logical: the message is that difficult thoughts and feelings aren’t helpful at work or anywhere else and should be avoided. A successful person should be cheerful and project confidence rather than negativity. However, all human beings have thoughts and emotions that include self-criticism, doubt, and fear. That’s just our minds trying to anticipate and solve problems.
In the business world, research shows that effective leaders approach their inner experiences in a mindful, values-driven, and productive way, integrating both logic and emotions. Studies show that emotional agility can help alleviate stress, become more innovative, and improve job performance. At the same time, increasing our emotional agility in relationships allows us to engage more deeply and meaningfully with those closest to us, as well as with ourselves.
The good news is that this skill of emotional agility can be trained and developed. In this course, you'll learn many of the same tools and practices as other mindfulness-based classes. Mindfulness and self-compassion are inner strengths that enable us to be more fully human—to acknowledge our shortcomings, learn from them, and make necessary changes with an attitude of kindness and self-respect. Participants will learn through activities such as meditation, group discussion, experiential exercises, short presentations, and home practices. Research shows these skills are associated with emotional wellbeing, lower levels of anxiety and depression, and more satisfying personal relationships.
In this 5 week course we will cover the following:
Week 1
Developing mindful awareness
What are emotions?
Relationship of reason/logic and emotions
Week 2
Recognizing our patterns
Disentangle the emotion from the story
Increasing our emotional vocabulary
Week 3
Labeling thoughts and emotions
Self-compassion
Week 4
From reacting to responding: acceptance
Communicating with others
Values
Week 5
Tying it all together
Acting from our values
Course Schedule
5-week course
**Due to inclement weather this course has been postponed, the new course dates will be**
Mondays, February 18 - March 18, 2019 | 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Course pricing
Regular registration: $270
Registration with certificate of completion for CEU's: $275 (see additional information below)
Additional payment options:
- Income-based reduced fee of $200, available to individuals with an annual household income from all sources of $60,000 or less. For more details, please email mindfulness@uw.edu
- A limited number of scholarships are available per course. To apply for a scholarship, please review criteria and complete the application form at https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/mindful/237140 Note: Scholarship applicants will be notified no later than 3 weeks prior to the first day of class. Applicants must wait to register for the course until a decision has been made in order to qualify.
**NEW** UW Affiliate Discounts
20% for UW Faculty & Employees. Use your UW email address to register, include department name, office, and position. Please note: The UW Faculty and Employee discount may not be applied towards friends or family members.
25% if paying with a UW budget number. UW Budget number is required at registration.
Continuing Education Credits
Pay an extra $5 at registration to receive a Certificate of Completion for 10 credit hours for licensed psychologists, marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, and social workers in Washington State. Please note: the fee for requesting a Certificate of Completion for credit hours AFTER the course begins is $20.
Pay it Forward - Support the Scholarship Fund
If you are able to pay more for the course, we encourage you to consider donating to the Mindfulness Outreach Fund which allows CCFW to offer 50% and 100% scholarships to community members to aid in the cost of registration fees for mindfulness courses. Scholarships are awarded to increase accessibility of mindfulness and compassion training for individuals who have limited resources to obtain such training and to those who work in communities experiencing adversity. To make a donation to the scholarship fund, please visit http://giving.uw.edu/mindfulness
About the Instructor:
John Guy, LMHC
John is a psychotherapist in private practice at the Seattle Mindfulness Center. He offers mindfulness-based counseling to individuals and couples looking to establish new and healthy behaviors that help them lead lives more in accord with their values. John provided instruction in the technique of mindfulness to students earning their master's degree in the Contemplative Counseling Psychology track at Naropa University. He has practiced mindfulness since 2001. John regularly incorporates mindfulness with clients, as well as in his work with Gender Equity & Reconciliation International, a program that convenes public workshops for healing and transformation between women and men, in the United States, South Africa, and London. John leads the NextSteps Seattle project, an initiative to secure public and private funding for workshops to renew and balance relationships between women and men in the wake of the #metoo movement. Find out more about John at: http://www.johntsungmeguy.com/
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Contact Information
Marcellina DesChamps
Associate Director of Programs
Center for Child & Family Well-Being
Office: 206.221.8508
Email: ccfwb@uw.edu