Emotions are our primary motivational system, influencing the 35,000 moments of choice we encounter every day. The way we process and respond to our emotions plays a key role in shaping our decision-making and behaviours. When clients lack emotional efficacy, they end up stuck in a trance of reactivity that can lead them away from what they care about and how they want to show up, personally and professionally. Instead of designing their actions based on what matters most, they are at the effect of automatic default reactions.
Low emotion efficacy has been shown to negatively impact client behaviour, wellbeing, and performance, and can lead to both mental health challenges and languishing.
Since an estimated 75% of therapy clients and 38% of coaching clients struggle with low emotion efficacy, it’s essential that professionals can help their clients harness their emotional experience while staying focused on what matters—even in the face of stress, challenge and pain.
Help your clients nurture high emotional efficacy by giving them the broadest range of tools possible to thrive. Multiple studies suggest that emotion efficacy skills can significantly increase distress tolerance, emotion regulation and values-based choice-making and action.
About this workshop
Join Dr Aprilia West, developer of emotion efficacy training (EET), as she introduces you to this novel intervention, grounded in neuroscience, learning theory and contextual behavioural science. She will introduce you to: the philosophical assumptions and principles for the EET model; basic psychoeducation on emotions; and, the 4 core emotional efficacy skills. You’ll also observe a professional demo of Dr. West working with clients using structured exposure-based practice.
Through emotion efficacy training, your clients will learn how to:
- Decode emotion triggers (defaults + values)
- Observe all parts of emotional 'STUF' (sensations, thoughts, urges and feelings)
- Ride the waves of emotion instead of just reacting to them
- Clarify and act on values in moments of choice
- Regulate emotions when needed to take values-based action
- Track the function of behaviour using the WTF? (What’s The Function?) inquiry
- Practice skills in an activated state so the learning ‘sticks’
This introductory course will utilise didactic, a video demo, experiential learning and Q & A to give you an overview of emotion efficacy training and how they can use the four core skills and experiential practices with clients. Emotion efficacy training (EET) can be used as a stand-alone intervention or integrated with other therapy or coaching approaches as an adjunct to helping clients increase their wellbeing and performance.
What will you get out of this workshop?
This introductory workshop will help you understand the role of emotions in mood, motivation, learning and decision-making, and why it's so important for professionals to help clients increase emotion efficacy to promote mental health and well-being.
You will learn to recognise common presentations of low emotion efficacy that lead to mental health problems and languishing. You’ll also learn to identify underlying psychological processes that inhibit emotion efficacy.
You’ll leave the training able to explain emotions and emotion efficacy and apply psychoeducation for four core evidence-based skills to help clients expand their behavioural repertoires.
And, you will be able to differentiate traditional cognitive behavioural approaches to working with emotion from a process-based approach to behaviour change. In addition,
Who would benefit from this workshop?
This introductory webinar is designed for mental health professionals (and students under supervision), behavioural analysts, professional coaches and other interested healthcare professionals.