Group training: Surfing your emotions

CONTENT

This group training focuses on expressing emotions differently and/or better. With this training, we hope to support you in finding the right balance in emotions. This means being able to deal with emotions in a safe way so that they do not cause us so many problems in daily life. 

The group therapy around emotion regulation consists of 5 consecutive 2-hour sessions. Between the meetings, homework assignments will be given to practice and try out the newly learned skills as much as possible. Besides psycho-education on what emotion regulation exactly entails, we will focus on learning and practising the basic competences underlying balanced emotion regulation.

The objectives of the group therapy are as follows:

• to allow and accept emotional reactions better
• to identify and label emotions more easily
• to express emotions in a more adaptive way
• to understand the relationship between emotions, cognition and behaviour, and the role of the environment
• to manage emotional impulses and improve self-control (increase self-control and frustration tolerance, reduce impulsivity)
• to deal more consciously with emotional input

PRACTICAL

Target audience (age): 16+

Duration: 5 sessions of 2 hours each

Dates: March and April, Tuesday from 10:00am until 12:00pm

• 10/03
• 17/03
• 24/03
• 31/03
• 14/04

Before the start of the course, each participant will be invited by the BRUCC trainer for an (online) screening/intake. Participation in the course will be concluded based on this intake.

Each participant must be present during all 5 group sessions.

Language: English

Price: Each session costs only 2.5 euros; the total amount of 12.5 euros will be paid during/after the intake interview.

Location: VUB Campus Etterbeek. The exact location will be communicated after registration.

Registration: via https://brucc.be/en/surfing-your-emotions