2019 Workshop Series

Managing Intense Emotions

Learning how to manage intense emotions is a vital life skill that meditators naturally develop over time.

As a meditator, you have access to a rich tradition of methods for working with the thoughts, feelings and physical sensations that arise with intense emotions. Although there are many difficult emotions, they are traditionally grouped into these four main categories:

  • Shame
  • Fear
  • Anger
  • Grief/Sadness.

This series of workshops will focus on specific techniques for each of these emotions to help you stop:

  • Stuffing and suppressing,
  • Wallowing, drowning or becoming paralyzed,
  • Raging and losing your sh*t,

You will learn:

  • How to identify exactly what you are experiencing,
  • Techniques to help you neutralize and heal that emotion,
  • What to do instead to help you break the habit of the emotion,
  • How to transform that specific emotion into a deep place of calm, equanimity, joy, acceptance, happiness and contentment.

2019 Workshop Topics, Dates, Locations

SHAME

Oregon:
Friday March 15, or Saturday March 16
Hamsa Meditation Center

Houston:
May 4
Houston Heights

FEAR

Oregon:
Saturday May 18
Hamsa Meditation Center

Houston:
Sunday, September 8
Houston Heights

FROM ANGER & HATE TO FORGIVENESS

Oregon:
Friday Sept 27 or Saturday Sept 28
Hamsa Meditation Center

 GRIEF / SADNESS

Oregon and Online*:
Friday November 8 or Saturday November 9
Hamsa Meditation Center

* We will be using the zoom.us platform. If you don't already have it, when we send you the link to join the workshop online, it will prompt you to download the app. It's wonderfully simple and only takes a few minutes to install.