Participants in this workshop learn about successful relational skills, managing their emotions — including anxiety and depression — and effective intervention and treatment strategies, all in the context of a supportive group environment. Sharing, supporting, and encouraging one another, while learning new perspectives and meaningful skills, as well as adopting the strategies that work best for each participant.

This small group 10-session workshop is held at my office at 313 Main Street in Rockland, on Wednesdays, 4:15–5:45 PM. This week the session focused on:

Workshop X (5/28): Relationships & The Judgment Phenomenon — In this second workshop on human relationships, participants explored the judgment phenomenon, where our features and characteristics become the judgments about us. How we value each other by these features and characteristics, how that can be very harmful, and how to change that. Judgments were also explained through the prism of primary emotional responses, and participants were encouraged to try looking at themselves and others without judgment, separating the actor from the actions.

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In addition to drawing from clinical experience working with patients since 1999, this workshop is based on evidence from many protocols and investigations, including: Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders – Boston University; Relational Model — Stone Center, Wellesley College; Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology — University of Glasgow; Adult Neurogenesis & Mental Health — Kings College London; Harvard Study of Adult Development — Harvard Medical School.