Emotions and Empathy Are Your Natural Language

Hello and welcome! If you're looking for clear and useful information about emotions and empathy, you've come to the right place. Get started on our Free Tools page.

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!

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. Available now!

Learn more and order here

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

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

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

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 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

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

9 Jan 2022

Empathy and Self-Care — an online course at Empathy Academy!

| |

Empathy is not a soft skill — it’s a vital skill The quality of your empathy — for yourself and others — can mean the difference between just getting through life and thriving in difficult... Read More

1 Jan 2022

Your Emotional Allies

| |

Learning to access the genius in your emotions Live Zoom workshop, Saturday, January 22nd from 10am-noon Pacific Your emotions contain the specific wisdom you need in each situation, but if you don’t know how... Read More

25 Sep 2021

Two Big Emotional Mistakes (and how to fix them)

| |

Your emotions aren’t the problem As I was writing my 2020 book, Embracing Anxiety: How to Access the Genius of This Vital Emotion I thought a lot about two emotional mistakes that almost everyone makes:... Read More

9 Sep 2021

In Defense of Judgment

| |

Your judgments have value and purpose When I grew up in spiritual groups, I was taught that judgment was forbidden, and wow, was that a colossal mistake. This no-judgment rule is still infecting a lot... Read More