Dealing with Feeling: Use Your Emotions to Create the Life You Want with author,
Marc Brackett, PhD, Yale Professor and Founding Director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence
In his latest book, Dr. Marc Brackett shows us that success in every aspect of life, career, friendship, love, and family, is determined mainly by one thing: how we deal with emotions.
In your most challenging moments, how did you respond? Did you fly off the handle? Were you paralyzed by indecision? Did you engage in behaviors that undermined your best intentions? Or did you exhibit grace under pressure and flourish? How you responded likely shaped what happened next. But emotion regulation isn’t a fixed trait, as many believe. It is a set of skills and strategies that must be learned, practiced, and refined over a lifetime.Dr. Marc Brackett examines his own challenges dealing with emotions, explains the latest science of emotion regulation, and provides a set of practical, evidence-based strategies to help us use our feelings wisely to nurture healthy relationships, achieve ambitious goals, and experience greater well-being. At the heart of his message is acceptance: There are no bad emotions―only emotions we don’t understand or know how to direct in positive, intentional ways.The good news? We all have the power to decide how we will respond to what life throws at us. By honing our emotion regulation skills, we can increase our chances of achieving success in all facets of our lives. Dealing with Feeling will show you how to work with your and others' emotions―not against them―so you can become the best version of yourself and lift others up too.
Bio
Marc Brackett, Ph.D., is an award-winning researcher for 25 years. He is the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and a professor at Yale University.
Dr. Brackett is the author of the bestselling book, Permission to Feel, that has been translated into 25 languages, and his new book that launched in September, Dealing with Feeling. He has also published 175 scholarly articles on the role of emotional intelligence in learning, decision making, creativity, relationships, physical and mental health, and workplace performance.
He is the creator of RULER, a widely used approach to teaching emotional intelligence that is an evidence-based approach to social and emotional learning (SEL) that has been adopted by over 5,000 schools across the globe, improving the lives of millions of children and adults.
RULER infuses the principles and skills of emotional intelligence into school systems, enhancing how administrators lead, educators teach, students learn, and families parent. It has been proven to boost academic performance, decrease school problems like bullying, enrich classroom climates, reduce teacher stress and burnout, and enhance teacher instructional practices.
Marc is featured regularly in popular media outlets such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Good Morning America, and The Today Show. He serves on the board of directors for the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), the nonprofit that founded the SEL field and he’s on the program board for the Mental Health Coalition, founded by Kenneth Cole and the Rare Beauty Mental Health Council, founded by Selena Gomez.
Marc has been the keynote speaker at over 700 conferences around the world, including the White House, U.S. Departments of Education and Defense, Surgeon General’s office, New York Times, Aspen Institute, the Royal Foundation of the Prince and Princess of Wales, and dozens of Fortune 500 companies. Marc regularly consults with large companies such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft on best practices for integrating the principles of emotional intelligence into training and product design and is co-founder of Oji Life Lab, a corporate learning firm that develops innovative digital learning systems for emotional intelligence. In 2022, with Pinterest co-founder Ben Silbermann, Marc and his team co-created HowWeFeel, a free Apple award-winning app designed to teach emotion skills and enhance well-being.
In February 2024, Marc launched a new YouTube webcast called Dealing with Feelings where he interviews eminent scientists, authors, musicians, and other pop culture personalities to learn about their mindsets about emotions and the emotion regulation strategies they’ve used to help them achieve goals, build healthy relationships, and have a sense of well-being in life.