Cultivating Emotional Balance
9 hours | 9 CEs
This on-demand professional training program on Cultivating Emotional Balance is presented by Paul Ekman, PhD, Eve Ekman, MSW, PhD, and Ryan Redman, MA.
Cultivating Emotional Balance (CEB) is an educational training committed to utilizing the experience of emotion as a path for supporting a constructive emotional life and cultivating genuine happiness.
By integrating the wisdom traditions of modern psychology, current emotion research, and contemplative practices, CEB provides a secular platform for transformation. This program implements guided meditation instruction, emotion mapping, group activities, partner reflections, and an in-depth investigation of universal emotions.
In this program, participants develop attention, restore motivation, identify the root causes of enduring happiness, discuss burnout, explore contempt and shame, investigate different pathways of empathy, practice self-compassion, and build connections through vulnerability and trust. Ultimately, with the tools of CEB, we can draw upon our human capacity to wisely and compassionately actualize individual and collective well-being and establish a wholesome relationship with the planet.
Intended Audience
This on-demand professional training program is intended for mental health and other allied professionals
Experience Level
This on-demand professional training program is appropriate for beginner, intermediate, and advanced level clinicians.
CE / CPD Credit
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Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this program you will be able to:
Describe emotional and conative intelligence through group discussions and introspective practices
Describe cutting-edge research from neuroscience and affective psychology on emotion, empathy, burnout, and compassion
Describe a cause/effect model of personal and professional burnout and apply the model to life at work, home and with colleagues.
Describe and investigate sources of enduring happiness, purpose, and meaning
Describe mindfulness skills for working with emotion at work and throughout the day
Describe contempt, disgust, shame and guilt and learn remedies for working with these difficult emotions
Describe communication skills for establishing trust, vulnerability, compassionate listening, and emotional resilience
Describe relationship skills for avoiding empathic distress
Presented By
Eve Ekman, MSW, PhD
Eve Ekman is a Senior Fellow at the University of California Berkeley Greater Good Science Center, Director of Cultivating Emotional Balance Training Program, and volunteer clinical faculty at the UCSF Department of Pediatrics. Ekman draws from an interdisciplinary set of skills and knowledge from h...
Presented By
Ryan Redman, MA
Ryan Redman has been teaching meditation for the past 20 years. Ryan is a co-founder and the Executive Director of the Flourish Foundation, a social profit dedicated to inspiring systemic change through heart-mind cultivation, promoting personal well-being, benevolent social action, and environmenta...
Presented By
Paul Ekman, PhD
Paul Ekman, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus in Psychology at UCSF, is the world’s foremost expert in facial expressions and a professor emeritus at the University of California Medical School in San Francisco. He is the author of 16 books, including Emotions Revealed and Telling Lies and, most recently, E...
Curriculum
1. Introduction
2. Harvesting Joy Practice
3. Burnout
4. Conative Balance
5. Emotions - Part 1
6. Emotions - Part 2
7. Contempt and Disgust
8. Empathetic Joy Activity
9. Shame and Guilt
10. Self-Compassion & Empathy
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CE Sponsorship Information
Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT), SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0356 and the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0073. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6811. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CONCEPT Professional Training, #1480, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. CONCEPT Professional Training maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 11/22/23-11/22/26. Social workers completing this course receive (clinical or social work ethics) continuing education credits.