Heart, Broken, OPEN: Cultivating Emotional Balance

With Eve Ekman

May 10 - 12, 2024

Date and Time Details:

Friday
7:15 pm – 8:00 pm *How to Drop into Esalen*
8:15 pm – 10:00 pm
Saturday
9:30 am - 12:45 pm
3:00 pm – 6:15 pm
Sunday
10:00 am – 12:00 pm

See general schedule information including arrival, departure and meal times.

  • Sleeping Bag Space – $540.00
  • Bunk Bed Space – $720.00
  • Standard Shared Space – $900.00
  • Standard Queen Room – $1,200.00
  • Standard Room Two Beds – $1,920.00
  • Premium Queen Room – $1,680.00
  • Premium King Room – $1,800.00
  • Premium Plus King Room – $2,040.00
  • Premium Wooden Yurt – $2,040.00
  • Premium Wooden Yurt Two Beds – $2,040.00
  • Rolf Suite – $3,900.00
  • Point House – $3,900.00
  • Fritz Point House – $3,900.00
  • South Point House – $4,800.00

Our emotions help us respond to the threats and opportunities in our daily lives and profoundly impact our individual and collective well-being. Feeling the joys and pains of our emotions is universal, yet what makes us emotional and how we respond is unique. We become emotional without our conscious awareness. Developing emotional awareness is like navigating this otherwise invisible inner landscape by holding the full range of our human experience with compassion and creativity.   

In this experiential workshop, we will draw from the evidence-based Cultivating Emotional Balance training, which integrates the wisdom traditions of modern psychology and emotion research and ancient contemplative practices as a path for transformation. 

Each session will balance learning, being, and connecting. Learning will include teachings on the scientific and contemplative foundations of emotional awareness. We practice being with guided meditations and reflective practices to develop mindful awareness and compassion for our mental and emotional patterns and habits. Connective practices include discussion and small group work to investigate the roots of our emotions through mapping of our emotional episodes. Mapping our emotional episodes is like slowing down the reel and seeing the story beneath what triggers us, how we feel, and how we respond to our fears, delights, frustrations, enjoyments, feelings of shame, and more. 

The foundation for emotional awareness is connected with our internal longing for contentment and flourishing, reflections on genuine well-being and meaningful life, and meditations that establish the clarity of intention and commitment to our own and other’s well-being. Through learning, being, and practicing with our emotions, we can remove the “dust from the gold” of our compassionate hearts.

About the Leader

Eve Ekman

Eve Ekman, PhD, MSW, is a contemplative social scientist, teacher, and scholar focusing on emotional awareness, empathy, meditation, and interventions to alleviate burnout and promote well-being. Eve draws from interdisciplinary skills and first-person experiential knowledge from clinical social work, integrative medicine, contemplative science, and meditation. She did her MSW and PhD at UC Berkeley and […]

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