1. Emotional processing course
How to understand and handle your emotions
Professor Roger Baker, Consultant Clinical Psychologist Mrs Sandra May, Primary Care Counsellor Mrs Ann Henderson, Primary Care Counsellor
© Roger Baker 2006

2. Sessions Session 1 Understanding emotions Session 2
Are emotions our friends or enemies?
Session 3
What does our emotion rule book say?
Session 4
Bottling up emotions or facing them
Session 5
Looking emotions in the eye
Session 6
Tying it all together
Session 7
Follow up session

3. Letting it rip … or not Bottling up feelings – effect on health
Too little or too much
Jane: Husband unfaithful, leaves her when pregnant. Doesn’t talk to husband, own family, husband’s family, friends. Doesn’t cry, doesn’t seek aid, doesn’t seek reparation
Billy: Fails driving test, swears at instructor. Accuses him of picking on him. Kicks car, shouts at mother for not buying him enough lessons

4. Getting the right balance
Difference between suppressing the experience of emotions suppressing the expression of emotions
EXPERIENCE
EXPRESSION
Feel unhappy 
Share/talk about feelings 
Feel sad 
Crying by self  to others ?
Feel anger 
Shout, accuse, hit out x
The vicious circle
Assert self 

5. Talk to an appropriate person
Homework session 5
Write it down OR
Talk to an appropriate person

6. INPUT EVENT

10. appraisal of meaning of event
INPUT EVENT
memory of input
past memories emotion schemas

12. appraisal of meaning of event
EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE
appraisal of meaning of event
experienced as gestalt
INPUT EVENT
awareness
labelling
linking
memory of input
past memories emotion schemas

13. appraisal of meaning of event
EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE
experienced as gestalt
awareness
labelling
linking
appraisal of meaning of event
INPUT EVENT
EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION
memory of input
past memories emotion schemas

14. appraisal of meaning of event
C O N T R O L O F E M O T I O N S
input
experience
expression
EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE
experienced as gestalt
awareness
labelling
linking
appraisal of meaning of event
INPUT EVENT
EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION
memory of input
past memories emotion schemas

15. 2 problem ideas (schemas)
Experience
Expression
The victim
Accepts hurt
Doesn’t directly express them to others
Entitlement “I know my rights”
When hurt
Feels entitled to hit out
Where does forgiveness fit in?
May express feelings. Ultimately decides to drop the right to punish offender
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you” Anon

16. Sessions Session 1 Understanding emotions Session 2
Are emotions our friends or enemies?
Session 3
What does our emotion rule book say?
Session 4
Bottling up emotions or facing them
Session 5
Looking emotions in the eye
Session 6
Tying it all together
Session 7
Follow up session

17. How has the emotional processing course affected me?
Evaluation sheet
How has the emotional processing course affected me?
Please write a paragraph

18. “Emotional processing; healing through feeling” Dr Roger Baker, Lion-Hudson Publishers, 2007

19. Thank you for attending

20. Emotional Processing Course Thank you for attending

23. Goodbye
Goodbye
Thank you
for attending