Talking about what no one talks about: Loneliness
Welcome to the resource page, prepared specifically for the students at Xplore.
Week 4
The pdf of the slides from March 11 class are here.
Carolyn just completed a course: “Guard to Guide: Transform your loneliness from guard dog to guide dog”. It looks at the “pro-symptom” position concept that we looked at week 3. It will eventually be available as a mini course for $23.00 but the introductory price is $7.00 (or more–it’s a “pay what you want” course) If you want to spend more time with the concepts of week 3, check it out!
Carolyn read from Mark 12 (The Message)
Carolyn referred to several though leaders to develop emotional literacy.
Susan David wrote a book on Emotional Agility, and she gave a helpful TED talk as well.
Brené Brown writes a book Atlas of the Heart that explains emotions for those that are trying to increase their emotional vocabulary.
Dr. Marc Brackett write a book Permission to Feel which has a 5 step program to be mindful of emotion which I find really helpful. There are lots of videos and podcasts he is on. I remember listening to the one on Unlocking us with Brené Brown.
Week 3
The PDF of the slides from March 4 class are here.
Carolyn read from Romans 7.
You can read more about “the Prosymptom position” here.
Week 2:
The pdf of the slides from February 25th class are here.
Carolyn read from 1 Corinthians 12, The Message to open class.
Carolyn referred to Dr. Julianna Schroeder’s research which she explained in a TEDx talk which you can view.
Week 1:
The pdf of the slides from February 18 class are here.
Can I invite you to consider completing the UCLA Loneliness Course, Version 3? It consists of 20 questions and you receive the results online without giving your email address. I’m going to suggest that you take it today, and record your results.
To learn more about the psychological distancing feeling of shame, take a look at Dr. Brené Brown’s TED talk, Listening to Shame.
The Loneliness Course is an expansion of the material covered in the Xplore course. It is designed to be a companion on the road from loneliness to connection–lots of videos, extra resources, handouts and opportunity to comment on the material.
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Everyone could use a little TLC!
Think about drawing a Life timeliness of loneliness–the above video walks you through how I did my own.
Grab a piece of paper–longer in width than tall, draw a line across it and start thinking about your life–when you have felt more connected and when you have experienced loneliness.
The image of loneliness that I invite you to connect with
Lost Connections
There was a mystery haunting award-winning investigative journalist Johann Hari. He was thirty-nine years old, and almost every year he had been alive, depression and anxiety had increased in Britain and across the Western world. Why?
The Anxious Generation
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on many measures. Why?
In The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time.
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