The Emotion Cards

The Language of Emotions cards

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The Language of Emotions Cards will help you increase your emotional awareness and empathic skills, anytime and anywhere! These 24 cards give you detailed insights into all of the emotions and the unique Empathic Mindfulness skills that increase your emotional awareness.

Emotional Vocabulary List

The Emotional Vocabulary List

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Your vocabulary matters. Research is continually showing us that a good emotional vocabulary doesn’t simply help you identify more emotions – it also helps you work with them more easily and more skillfully. This portable Emotional Vocabulary List will help you develop emotional awareness and skill!


The Art of Empathy Cards

The Art of Empathy

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This Art of Empathy card deck will help you work with emotions and empathy in yourself and others. These 28 cards (plus a special fold-out Emotional Vocabulary List) offer detailed insights into Karla’s Six Essential Aspects of Empathy model, plus the skills and practices that will help you develop healthy empathy.

The Language of Emotions

Cover of The Language of Emotions book and audio learning program

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Emotions hold a tremendous amount of energy, and we’ve all seen what happens when we repress or carelessly express them. In The Language of Emotions, empathy pioneer Karla McLaren shows you how to work with every emotion you have, and receive their life-saving wisdom in healthy ways.


Emotional Flow Online

The Language of Emotions cards

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In Emotional Flow, you’ll learn how to identify your current areas of emotional skills and challenges. You’ll also learn five core Empathic Mindfulness practices to ground yourself, create healthy boundaries, and free yourself from uncomfortable emotional behaviors. You’ll learn effortless ways to bring emotional flow and empathic intelligence to every part of your life.

The Art of Empathy

The Art of Empathy

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With her groundbreaking model of the Six Essential Aspects of Empathy, McLaren teaches you how to understand empathy clearly, how to pinpoint your strengths and challenges, and how to support healthy empathy in yourself and others.

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