How to let go

Goals

• Understand when and why it is useful to let go

• Transform and detach from negative emotions and thoughts

• Living more in the moment to act more effectively

Target audience

Everyone who wants to reduce the influence of bad mental habits on their life and act with more serenity.

Contents

When it's pointless to hold on: understanding letting go

• Why we hold on to negative thoughts and suffer needlessly

• Distinguishing between thoughts and events, between reasons and real facts

• The limits of our control over events

• The beneficial effects of letting go on the body and mind

Techniques for releasing negative emotions and thoughts

• Identifying the cognitive distortions that get in the way of our thoughts

• Questioning the basis of negative thoughts with reframing

• Reconstructing interpretations and expectations in a positive and realistic way

• Becoming an observer of our inner life

• So many curiosities: practical techniques to detach oneself from one's thoughts

• Freeing yourself from the grip of negative emotions with mindfulness

Acting effectively in the present moment

• Acting more flexibly when freed from resentments of the past and fears of the future

• Increase awareness of self and environment in the here and now

• Focus on what you can control

• Doing what you really want to do while being aware of your limits

PEDAGOGICAL METHOD

The teaching method is based on the active participation of each participant in the form of :

• Practical exercises borrowed from cognitive and behavioural therapies applied to the training, case studies and role plays staging the daily life of the participants and similar situations

• Followed by a collective debriefing between the protagonists (participants in the role plays), the other learners (observers who provide feedback) and the facilitator (provision of tools and synthesis).

• Interactive exchanges between participants and between participants and the facilitator: most of the subjects are dealt with in the form of collective exchanges, supported by theoretical contributions in the form of tools.