Author Talk: Marc Brackett on 'Dealing with Feeling'
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What if the key to success isn’t what happens to you, but rather how you respond to it? Join Marc Brackett, director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, for a powerful conversation on understanding and managing emotions in everyday life. Drawing from his latest book Dealing with Feeling, Brackett offers science-backed insights and practical tools to help you navigate challenges, strengthen relationships, and thrive.
Why You Should Come
We all have the power to decide how we will respond to what life throws at us. By honing our emotion regulation skills, we can increase our chances of achieving success in all facets of our lives. Dealing with Feeling will help you become the best version of yourself.
About Dealing with Feeling
From Marc Brackett, author of the bestselling book Permission to Feel, comes Dealing with Feeling, an essential guide for regulating how we respond to our emotions in order to transform our lives.
Success in virtually every aspect of life — career, friendships, love, and family — is determined mainly by one thing: how you deal with your feelings. In your most challenging moments, how did you respond? Did you fly off the handle? Were you paralyzed by indecision? Did you engage in behaviors that undermined your best intentions? Or did you exhibit grace under pressure and flourish? How you responded likely determined what happened next, but the way we handle our emotions is not, as many believe, a fixed part of ourselves. Rather, it is a set of skills and techniques that must be learned and refined across our lives.
Marc Brackett examines his own challenges dealing with emotions, explains the latest science of emotion regulation, and provides a set of practical, evidence-based strategies to help us use our feelings wisely to nurture healthy relationships, achieve challenging goals, and attain greater well-being. At the heart of his message is acceptance: There is no such thing as a bad emotion — only the ones you don’t understand and don’t yet know how to direct in positive, intentional ways.
About the Author
Marc Brackett, Ph.D., is the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and a professor in the Child Study Center at Yale University. He is the author of two bestselling books—Permission to Feel, which has been translated into 32 languages, and, most recently, Dealing with Feeling, which also serves as the title of his podcast featuring conversations with leading scientists, authors, musicians, and cultural influencers. Marc is the lead developer of RULER, an evidence-based framework for cultivating emotional intelligence that has been adopted by more than 5,000 schools worldwide. He has authored over 200 scholarly publications, and his research has been featured in The New York Times, Good Morning America, TIME, and TODAY. Marc has headlined more than 700 conferences, advises Fortune 500 companies on building emotionally intelligent workplace cultures, and is the co-creator of the award-winning How We Feel app, a tool helping millions improve their well-being. Marc also the producer of the acclaimed documentary film, America Unfiltered: Portraits and Voices of a Nation.
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