What is Emotional Versatility Training? Emotional Versatility Training is a 10-week in person course beginning March 7, 2024, and ending May 7, 2024. It is available to the general public and offered in partnership with the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Santa Cruz,
Sources of insights into the nine inborn emotions
Loveandpowerinstitute.org/nine-inborn-emotions Our central sources of insight into the nine inborn emotions are the works of Charles Darwin (1872), Silvan Tomkins (1962-91) and the Silvan Tomkins Institute (1991-present). Tomkins added many surprising and systematic innovations to understanding our emotions that have
What’s valuable for therapists?
If you already know all you need to know about emotions, your contribution to our emotional versatility class could be invaluable, either via participation in the training half of the class or by bringing up relational emotional scenes from your
GENDER EMPATHY BALL
This gender empathy process grew out of Dr. Norman Brown’s teaching psychology of close relations in aviation technical university where it was practiced for over fifteen years. He named it “Gender Football” to appeal to an 80% male college and
Emotional Versatility Contributes to Planetary Sustainability
Norman M. Brown and Marsha Hudson Introduction: Intelligence, love, aggression and men and women vis-à-vis the earth. Evolutionary theory postulates that any species may face an existential crisis if its relation to its environment becomes untenable for any reason. Our
Emotional Maturity and Planetary Sustainability
Adapted from a sermon at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Santa Cruz, Oct. 9, 2022 Introduction. Evolutionary theory postulates that any species may face an existential crisis if its relation to its environment becomes untenable for any reason. Our species,
1. Distress is Necessary for Stabilizing Love & Expanding Human Potential.
Adapted from Silvan Tomkins Affect, Imagery, Consciousness v1, p316f (New York, Springer, 2008). Distress is Necessary for Stabilizing & Developing What We Love What a person will be distressed about depends in part, but only in part, on what s/he
4. Research on Shame when Triggered by Disrupted Relations
The popular conception of shame in America is a onsesided version of 1990s TV host John Bradshaw’s “toxic shame.” This translates a shame moment signaling I have done something bad into a character flaw: I am bad. But already in
3. Shame’s Role in Character Building and Conflict. Avoidance and Attack-Other.
By Norman M. Brown, Ph.D. This the third in the series, Shame is Especially Useful. To make good use of this novel approach to relationships the other two blogs are essential. Blog 2 mapped the compass of shame: four clusters
2. Undoing the Damage of Shame. Withdrawal and Attack-Self.
By Norman M. Brown, Ph.D. Before attempting this novel approach to shame, please read my first contribution, All Emotions are Beneficial. Shame is especially Useful. For this previous blog will turn many of our normal conceptions upside down. How we