WEBINAR: How To Cope With Difficult Emotions
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Difficult emotions are inevitable, but ignoring them rarely makes them dissipate and rumination adds to suffering. This webinar will focus on a four-step meditation technique to reduce emotional suffering while creating space for inner wisdom and insight. This technique can be applied in workplace situations when needed.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Apply the four steps of the RAIN meditation practice.
- Describe how difficult emotions can affect health and behavior.
- Discuss the importance of trauma sensitivity when working with difficult emotions.
- List three alternative practices for working with difficult emotions.
INTENDED AUDIENCE
Health care professionals
SPEAKER
Heather Stang is founder of the Frederick Meditation Center and the Mindfulness & Grief Training Institute. She serves on the faculty of the Portland Institute for Loss & Transition and volunteers with Hospice of Washington County and Hospice of Frederick County in Maryland. She serves on the advisory board for the Military Family Survivor Organizations Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors and has appeared on the award-winning television show Open to Hope. Stang has a master’s degree in thanatology and is a certified yoga therapist and meditation instructor.