Working with Emotions

Apr 13, 2023 |4:00pm-6:00pm

Starting January 19, join Counselling Services virtually every Thursday, from 4:00pm-6:00pm, for Working with Emotions!

Working with Emotions is a psychoeducational skills group that helps to teach skills for working effectively with our emotions. The focus of this group is education and skills development. The information that we will be covering in this group is based on DBT (Dialectical Behaviour Therapy), a practical therapy with skills to help anyone improve, especially in the area or emotional regulation and interpersonal communication.

The skills that we will be covering in this group are ones that you may have encountered before and include:

  • Distress Tolerance Skills: When we cannot solve the problems that are causing us pain, we have to be able to find effective ways to tolerate the pain and perhaps even grow from the painful situation. The skills in this module include crisis survival strategies and acceptance strategies.
  • Emotion Regulation Skills: This set of skills helps us to work with our emotions rather than trying to rid ourselves of emotions. The skills include: i) skills to help reduce the intensity of painful emotions, ii) skills to help us “surf” our emotions until they settle down enough that we can act on them wisely, and iii) skills to help us change emotions when our emotions are not working for us.
  • Interpersonal Effectiveness: In order to keep our relationships healthy, we need to be able to ask for things from others and say no to unwanted requests. The skills that we will be teaching in this module help us to ask for things or say no to unwanted requests, while at the same time maintaining or improving our relationships.
  • Core Mindfulness Skills: These will help us to understand ourselves and our emotional responses.

Working With Emotions is a virtual group and will be held online. To register for this group, please email: workingwithemotions@algonquincollege.com

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Event Location

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