Surfing your emotions

Aanbod enkel in het Engels beschikbaar.

This group training focuses on expressing emotions differently and/or better. With this training, we hope to support you in finding the right balance in emotions. This means being able to deal with emotions in a safe way so that they do not cause us so many problems in daily life.

The group therapy around emotion regulation consists of 5 consecutive 2-hour sessions. Between the meetings, homework assignments will be given to practice and try out the newly learned skills as much as possible. Besides psycho-education on what emotion regulation exactly entails, we will focus on learning and practising the basic competences underlying balanced emotion regulation.

The objectives of the group therapy are as follows:

• to allow and accept emotional reactions better
• to identify and label emotions more easily
• to express emotions in a more adaptive way
• to understand the relationship between emotions, cognition and behaviour, and the role of the environment
• to manage emotional impulses and improve self-control (increase self-control and frustration tolerance, reduce impulsivity)
• to deal more consciously with emotional input.

Practical information

• Target audience (age): 16+
• Duration: 5 sessions of 2 hours each
• Trainers: Dariya Bezugla and Dieter Geens, clinical psychologists at BRUCC

Before the start of the course, each participant will be invited by a BRUCC trainer for an (online) screening/intake. Participation in the course will be concluded following this intake.