Managing Emotions in Times of Uncertainty

This introductory module unpacks how emotions can help and hinder attention, decision making, relationships, health, and performance.

This module focuses on how to identify your own emotions, which is an essential first step to building emotional intelligence skills. It explores how to recognize, understand, and accurately label emotions using the Mood Meter.

This module applies what you've learned about identifying your emotions to the practice of managing your emotions. It explores and reflects on a series of "action strategies" to help you manage your emotions in healthy, productive ways.

This module focuses on "thought strategies" to support healthy emotion management. It considers research-based ways to shift the way you think to shift the way you feel, and how to incorporate these strategies into your daily life.

This module focuses on applying strategies for approaching your own and others' emotions in scientific and culturally responsive ways. It describes the biases involved in identifying and managing emotions, and reflects on the potential impact of your own biases on your interactions with others.

This module focuses on strategies for improving your awareness of others' emotions (especially the emotions of your students). It explores the barriers to understanding others' emotions and ways to improve this skill as an emotion scientist.

This module provides research-based steps to help others manage their emotions. It introduces the concept of emotion co-regulation, as well as a five-step process to support students in moments of high stress.

This final module brings together everything from the course. You'll look at your action plans from each section of the course and make a commitment to lasting change.