In today’s world, emotions are not understood.

Fear goes on much longer than it needs to and its adrenaline has been appropriated to sell products. Anger is misunderstood and has a bad reputation, leading to insufficient safety in the world. Sorrow is widely judged as weakness and its incredible renewal power is lost to many people. Joy is considered an optional luxury and therefore often experienced as an addiction.
We may have forgotten what human emotions are and why we have them.

Tim Westfeldt has been working to remember what these tools are meant to be, and restore their place as part of the original human design so that we can once again use them for a thriving, happy, successful human life.

In this 3 hour workshop you will:

• Learn about emotions as safety tools

• Learn what the good reason we have each primary emotion is

• Learn how well yours are working

• Begin the process of mastering them

Tim will share through lecture and participatory conversation about what emotions are and how to use them. After we have presented a theory of emotions in ways you haven’t heard before, we will pair off into partners and experiment with these ideas to learn about our own emotions, including how they are running now, and how to grow them into well operating tools.

You will walk away with a new understanding of the value of all your emotions, increased ability to recognize your own and others emotions when they are present, embodied understanding of the way they increase your safety, and experiential knowledge about using them effectively.