Emotional Well-Being, Emiliana Simon-Thomas, Ph.D.

Course overview

This class will cover what emotions are what they are for, how they work and how to leverage them to benefit one's personal and interpersonal well being. Grounded in four principles of emotional intelligence, this course will share practical strategies for fostering emotional well-being through a series of research backed exercises. These strategies include improving detection and accurate identification of emotion signals and expressions, optimally regulating emotions across different contexts and challenges, and leveraging emotions to guide healthy, goal-directed behaviors and improve the quality and effectiveness of communication.