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Posts tagged with 'emotion regulation'

Further background for the colouring in exercise: gratitude, expressive writing, emotion processing & taking it forward

14th June 2018

This "Further background ... " post adds to the "Initial background for the colouring in exercise: assessment, maps, emotional intelligence & emotion discrimination" in supporting the "The 'emotion colouring in exercise': how to do it". gratitude writing: The second 3-minute section of ... expressive writing: Returning to the ... emotion …

Initial background for the colouring in exercise: assessment, maps, emotional intelligence & emotion differentiation

12th June 2018

This "Initial background" post provides important information to support use of the brief 6-minute "Emotion colouring In exercise". There is additional useful information in the companion post "Further background for the colouring in exercise: gratitude, expressive writing, emotion processing & taking it forward". Emotional intelligence: Emotion differentiation: More to follow …

The "emotion colouring in exercise": how to do it

11th June 2018

The "Emotion colouring In exercise" is a deceptively simple 6-minute writing exercise where we practise identifying and describing our feelings. For important additional information about this process, see the "Initial background for the colouring in exercise: assessment, maps, emotional intelligence & emotion differentiation" and the "Further background for the colouring …

Compassion, wisdom & wellbeing: an 8 week training

1st November 2017

A good friend & I have just been sorting out the practical details of running an 8 week course together on "Compassion, wisdom & wellbeing", starting in January. Some aspects still need to be tweaked, but the basic publicity information runs like this: "If you want others to be happy, …

Birmingham BABCP conference: final morning - positive affect in depression, therapy adverse effects & overall review (5th post)

27th July 2014

The last morning of this excellent BABCP conference dawned bright & sunny ... as it has all week. I have particularly enjoyed this year's BABCP get-together. I think this has been due to a combination of factors including presentations that have been personally of real interest, the weather, the University …

Birmingham BABCP conference: second day - NICE, emotion regulation, and exposure with depression & with cycloserine (4th post)

25th July 2014

So yesterday was the second full day of the BABCP conference. I have already written initial blog posts about the first day of the conference and about the pre-conference workshop I went to on emotion regulation. This is a bit of a pre-breakfast scamper over yesterday's experiences. As with the …

Birmingham BABCP conference: first day - decentering, compassion, insomnia, social anxiety, sp/sr & barbecue (3rd post)

24th July 2014

This is a quick overview of the first full day of the annual BABCP summer conference in Birmingham. I intend to return to some of the key learning points in later posts. I've already written about the pre-conference workshop I went to on "Emotion regulation" in a couple of earlier …