The Books
Grounded in Research
Easy to Follow
Helps You Set the Tone
The Emotions Awareness & Transformation™ program is grounded in well-established research. It offers a simple process and concepts you can work with, whether in depth or on the fly, to put your best foot forward. Interested in doing a deeper dive? Emotion Commotion includes a list of authors and books referenced.
The EAT Program™ is straightforward and easy to follow. It can help you get a handle on your own emotions, and feel more at ease if you are helping kids. You will gain the language and fundamentals you need to make it – and guide others – through most daily challenges.
Whether on your own or in a group or family setting, The EAT Program™ can help you set a positive tone. You can’t change others, but by becoming less reactive yourself, they may change in response. Unhealthy environment where nobody else changes? You will learn to set healthy boundaries, and transform your own negative emotions.
The eAT Program™ includes:
Emotion Commotion
I Know Me
Emotions Awareness & Transformation™ Workbook
The full program guide: 6″ x 9″; nine chapters; 114 pages; 79 full-colour images on high quality paper. A simple read with immediate results. You’ll be speeding along the right track in no time.
7 rhyming stories for all ages. Approved for classroom use by the Ontario Ministry of Education Bullying Intervention Program. The EAT™ Workbook examples are based on stanzas from I Know Me.
Summaries of key research; 36 worksheets to identify and transform emotions with LDT™ (Locate, Describe & Transform); tips for each example. 8.5″ x 11″; 206 pages; 34 greyscale images.
Emotion Commotion is the guide you need to help yourself and others move from the caboose to the engine.
Emotion Commotion
Help Kids, Teens, and Adults alike get on track in 3 simple steps
Let’s use a train metaphor to set the stage:
They are so angry you can feel the steam blowing out of their ears. They let out a scream as loud as a train whistle. You thought their life was on track, but the track ahead is broken.
This is not the time for your own emotions to send you crashing into the station. You need to help them get it together … fast.
- Emotions are reactions in our bodies.
- They don’t cause the reaction; they are the reaction.
- We naturally describe our emotions with metaphor.
- Train, set the stage, steam blowing out ears, loud as a train whistle, on track, broken track, crashing, station, get it together … All of these metaphors give us an indication of the situation and level of distress.
- When we transform the metaphor, we simultaneously transform the negative emotions.
- With negative emotions transformed, even if just for a moment, we are in the best position to make our healthiest decision.
- Walking someone through LDT™: Locate, Describe & Transform™ – puts the focus where it needs to be: on their embodied emotions.
- Using our train metaphor, guide them to:
- Locate the emotion in their body.
- Ears, mouth, and full body tension
- Describe it in as much detail as they can or wish.
- steam blowing; train whistle; broken track
- Transform the negative image into something more positive.
- Imagine a race team’s pitstop crew quickly repairing the track before the train gets there. Their body relaxes as they realize there is plenty of track left to come up with a plan.
- Locate the emotion in their body.
- Using our train metaphor, guide them to:
I Know Me
7 rhyming stories for all ages
The seven stories in I Know Me lead you on a journey, from conflict and stress-filled metaphors that keep you emotionally reactive; through safe space, grounding, and connection metaphors (bright light bubble; roots out your boots; one with the sun); on to self-reflection metaphors; and ending with metaphors teaching you how to trust your intuition.
For all ages.
Emotions Awareness & Transformation™
The EAT Program™ Training Workbook
The EAT™ Workbook takes you to the next level. Whether as a home or classroom tool, a guide for clients, or getting a better understanding of your own emotions, the Workbook delivers the exercises you need to bring you into balance. It begins with summary pages of the critical points from Emotion Commotion. Thirty-four straightforward exercises then quickly get you naming and transforming your negative emotions. The end result: balanced decision making.
This workbook uses stanzas from the stories in I Know Me as a starting place for exploring and transforming stresses and conflicts. As a reference tool, it offers you language and insights for better understanding and guiding children and teens.
About Karen
Karen’s awareness & transformation programming includes emotions, bullying, biases, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
She has a Master’s degree in Dispute Resolution from the University of Victoria, British Columbia.