with Diane Musho Hamilton
What do powerful works of art, great leaders, and successful advertising have in common?
They inspire us by evoking the power of emotion.
Feeling is the lifeblood of communication. Without feeling, communication is abstract, dry, and uninspired. Emotional tone is what elevates the mundane to the meaningful.
In spite of this, we often choose to minimize feeling. We leave it out of our workplace norms, erase it from our email communications, and when it shows up in a meeting, do our best to bring things back to territory that feels more matter-of-fact. Yet we exclude feeling at a price.
Over time, we stop feeling engaged in what we’re doing. Our interactions feel flat, robotic. We feel like we’re forced to check part of ourselves at the door. Worse, we start to doubt how much we can share with those around us and our sense of well-being erodes.
Being able to include emotion in a way that inspires and connects is a skill, and it rests on a foundation of emotional maturity. When we can be comfortable entering the territory of our own feeling states, we won’t feel compelled to run the other direction when they show up in others.
When we are emotionally mature, we can meet emotions with compassion, allow them to inform us, and act in more wise and skilfull ways.
Like a painter choosing from a palette of colors, we can include emotional expression to bring more beauty, depth and meaning into what we’re doing.
Become More Courageous and Wholehearted. Expand your Emotional Range.
Willing to Feel is an 8 module online training with award-winning mediator, Zen teacher, and author, Diane Musho Hamilton
Being an emotionally mature adult is an artful act of balance, self understanding, and courage.
It isn’t about feeling so much that we can’t get out of bed. And it certainly isn’t about minimizing feeling and relegating it to the margins.
With emotional maturity, we are able to feel deeply, and let go. We are able to be moved in one moment, and pragmatic in the next. We are fluent, adaptive, and free.
The impact on the world around us is that others are invited to be more free, and more wholehearted. Our emotional maturity encourages other people to be more fully themselves, to experiment, and to take risks. It communicates that we are someone who can be trusted, relied up on, and turned to for guidance.
Most of all, our emotional maturity signals that in a chaotic and changing world, it is possible to be fully alive without going to pieces or numbing out.
In this on-demand self-paced training, you will gain a more complete understanding of your own emotions. You will learn how to encounter any emotion with willingness and wisdom, and how to utilize the intelligence within any emotion.
Diane Musho Hamilton’s profound emotional wisdom and immense understanding of this territory makes her an exceptional guide and teacher. Her precise insight and instruction invites others to experience the the freedom and fulfillment of becoming more wholehearted and emotionally mature. In this 8-module learning experience, you can expect to:
Overcome the tendency to cling to emotional experiences.
Learn how to identify the wisdom in any emotion.
Go beyond the tendency to suppress or deny feelings.
Become comfortable entering challenging emotional terrain.
Develop emotional fluency with six primary emotions: Fear, Anger, Grief, Confusion, Longing, Jealousy.
Learn the 7-step practice for metabolizing an emotion.
Learn how to unpack complex emotions and work with contradictory feelings.
Increase your emotional fluency and range of motion.
Develop the courage and confidence to include emotion in service of creativity.
Here's what the course includes:
8 45-minute Recorded Video Classes with Diane
Experience the best of Diane’s teaching, carefully curated for you to follow at a pace that works for you.
Downloadable videos & audios of all classes
You’ll have access to all video lessons, audio tracks, plus written summaries and practices through our new streamlined course website.
Written summaries of every video lesson
You can read, review, and reflect at your own pace using session notes to deepen and clarify your understanding.
Specific practices to go with every video lesson
Go beyond conceptual understanding and put your new skills into practice with the support of these well designed and easy-to-do practices.
Membership in a private course learning platform
Access the course via a private, easy-to-use website that features all your learning materials organized in one central place.
10 Professional Recertification Credits Available from HRCI and SHRM
This course is approved as a recertification provider for members of ICF, SHRM and HRCI. By completing all modules, you can receive 10 recertification credits.
Allow us to introduce Diane Musho Hamilton—a teacher and mentor to many of the most exceptionally talented people we know. Diane is the co-founder and lead trainer of Integral Facilitator programs, which are the heart of our in-person trainings at Ten Directions. Diane is exceptionally gifted in the realm of group dynamics and interpersonal subtlety, and as a teacher, she brings warmth, humor, spontaneity and wisdom to everyone she teaches.
Meet Your Teacher — Diane Musho Hamilton
Thousands of people around the world have benefitted from the extraordinary depth and skill of Diane Musho Hamilton’s teachings. Diane is an exceptionally gifted mediator, master facilitator, author, trainer, and consultant. As a mediator, she is well known as an innovator in dialogues, especially conversations about culture, religion, race and gender relations. She is the recipient of several prestigious awards for her work in this area, including the Peter W. Billings Award from the Utah State Bar, the Utah Council on Conflict Resolution Peacekeeper Award, the Judicial Administration Award and Friend of the Court. Diane is also the 2016 recipient of the Brigham Young University Peacekeeper of the Year Award. She is the Co-Founder of the acclaimed Integral Facilitator Training Program.
Diane is the author of two books, Everything is Workable: A Zen Approach to Conflict Resolution and The Zen of You and Me and is a contributor to Harvard Business Review.
High Praise for Diane’s Online Course,
In This Together
What You'll Learn, Module by Module
Module 1: Including Feeling; Letting it Go
Overcome the tendency to feel too much, or not feel enough.
- Overcome limitations in your willingness to feel.
- Learn to differentiate from feeling without denying it.
- Learn to include feeling in your communications and collaborations.
Module 2: Introducing Transmutation of Feeling
Make use of the wisdom available in any emotion.
- Identify the intelligence within even the most challenging emotions.
- Learn to utilize the energy and insight of emotion as a source of creativity.
- Relinquish egoic attachment to feelings
Module 3: Transmutation—The Full Process
Overcome the tendency to avoid or fixate on these emotions.
- Develop your willingness to feel these emotions.
- Learn how they affect thought and behavior.
- Learn how to metabolize these challenging emotions.
- Learn to loosen the grip of fear in the body.
Module 4: Fear, Anxiety and Dread
Learn to include and express these emotions in healthy ways.
- Appreciate the role and value of anger.
- Understand how to work with anger in others.
- Develop your ability to process anger.
- Expand your options for expressing anger.
Module 5: Anger and Resentment
Cultivate courageous willingness to enter this emotional territory.
- Learn how to stay present with these overwhelming emotions.
- Become more willing to feel and learn from sadness.
- Let go of coping behaviors and avoidance.
Module 6: Sadness, Sorrow and Heartbreak
Learn to trust this emotion and identify the intelligence within it.
- Recognize the subtle signs in yourself and others.
- Understand how this feeling arises in relation to other emotions.
- Become more willing to experience this emotion and learn from it.
- Learn to find the insight underneath this emotion.
Module 7: Experiencing Positive Emotional States
Experience these emotions without habitually clinging to or rejecting them.
- Recognize the “sticky” quality of these emotions.
- Learn to experience them without being captured by them.
- Increase your ability to release and let go.
Module 8: Navigating Emotional Complexity and Communicating Emotions
Learn to unpack complex emotions and work with contradictory feelings.
- Increase your discernment and awareness of complex emotions.
- Unpack complex feelings and identify their multiple qualities.
- Discover greater ease and tolerance with conflicting feeling states.
Approved by these Professional Organizations for Continuing Education Credits:
This course is approved by two prominent professional HR Certification organizations as a recertification credit provider. Both SHRM and HRCI are organizations that reflect the highest industry standards for HR professionals. If you are an HR professional who is certified by either SHRM or HRCI, you need to maintain your certification and demonstrate that you remain current in the field by acquiring recertification credits. By completing all modules in this online training, you can receive up to 10 recertification credits from either (or both) of these organizations. And if you’re not a certified HR professional, you can take the course just as you would any other professional training.
