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Empathy pioneer and researcher Karla McLaren. M.Ed. is pleased to announce her newest book, The Power of Emotions at Work: Accessing the Vital Intelligence in Your Workplace, which will be released on August 17th, 2021!

Karla is also the developer of the EmpathyAcademy.org learning site, where you can develop robust emotional skills and healthy empathy in a welcoming online community. Her applied work, Dynamic Emotional Integration^® (or DEI), is taught at Empathy Academy, and you can find licensed DEI Professionals all over the world.

New! Emotions have the power to make or break your workplace!

We've been told that emotions don't belong in the workplace, but nothing could be further from the truth. Emotions do not create workplace problems; they contain the exact genius you need to solve those problems.

The Power of Emotions at Work: Accessing the Vital Intelligence in Your Workplace will help you learn how to access the brilliant information in emotions to create a healthy and truly workable workplace. Release date: August 17th, 2021.

Learn more and pre-order here

THE POWER OF EMOTIONS AT WORK speaks truth to the reality that so much of work is actually emotional work. This wonderful, insightful, and practical book will help you create teams that work better together and make better work.

Charlie Gilkey, author of Start Finishing

The Language of Emotions has changed the way I relate to others, and to myself, forever.

Gavin DeBecker, author of The Gift of Fear and Protecting the Gift

Karla McLaren brilliantly illuminates the rich, textured landscape of emotional intelligence and the most important glue holding together all relationships — empathy.

Peter Levine, PhD, author of Healing Trauma and Freedom from Pain

Embracing Anxiety is a kind and empathetic, practical and reality-based approach to managing emotions, useful for anyone and everyone.

Mark Bertin, MD, author of How Children Thrive

Karla McLaren’s breakthrough approach provides the missing link for those who want to finally get off the merry-go-round of anxiety, shame, and self-judgment. Embracing Anxiety has become a permanent fixture in my tool box.

Dr. Samantha Brody, author of Overcoming Overwhelm

Escaping Utopia is a must read book for everyone concerned about the real nature of human nature.

Philip Zimbardo, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University

Escaping Utopia: This accessible and nuanced account of a controversial subject will be the standard reference on its subject for many years to come.

Benjamin Zablocki, Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University

Karla McLaren is an emotional genius; she is the perfect guide to lead us through the complexities of emotions, and right into the heart of compassion.

Michael Meade, author of The Water of Life and The Genius Myth

14 Jul 2021

Trusting Your Empathic Body

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Dancing with your emotions Most of us have been trained away from our emotions and away from our bodies, but both carry forms of genius that can help us live whole and vibrant lives. In... Read More

11 Jun 2021

What is an Empath?

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We’re all empaths In my earlier career, I identified as an empath, but I stopped doing so because the term got to be really troubling. An empath tends to be seen as some kind of... Read More

1 Jun 2021

When sadness, grief, and depression are necessary

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Welcoming the gifts of the Sadness Family In times of upheaval, loss, and trouble, many emotions will step forward to offer their gifts and their unique forms of genius. If you don’t know this, you... Read More

30 May 2021

The magical relationship between anger and forgiveness

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Anger is essential to true forgiveness I wrote this piece in my book The Language of Emotions back in 2010, but I return to it a lot. So much of what we’re told about forgiveness... Read More