Rethinking Emotions – Science, Resilience and Emotional Intelligence – Live Course – March 11, 2025

Masterclass - Rethinking Emotions
Science, resilience and emotional intelligence
2 days | October 29 & 30, 2025

Exclusive Masterclass: Only a few places available!
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4 modules | 12 participants Max
09.00 - 16.30.00 (incl. breaks)
Delivery: Online (hybrid option possible)

Your instructors: Ruben Langwara, Motoki Tonn
Music with Michael Nickel

Included:
- Seminar documents and materials
- Access to video recordings (for online participation)

"Categorizing emotions into negative and positive is one of the biggest mistakes in psychology."

Have you ever been angry because you were angry? As a mindful and balanced person, a "negative" emotion like anger is a no-go, isn't it? In the same way, we are told not to let our fear guide us. And we shouldn't mourn a shattered dream and instead look forward. We hear this advice and yet the emotion remains. An emotion is stubborn if we don't understand it. Every emotion has a message for us. This must be heard and accepted. If we understand and use all emotions as guardians of life, this increases our well-being, reduces stress and strengthens our resilience.

In this masterclass, we would like to invite you to rethink emotions. In a total of four modules, you will receive science-based tools to use your emotions so that they work for you and not against you. At its core, it is about harmonizing your relationship with your own emotions.

How are the modules structured?

• How does your brain create emotions? Theory of constructed emotions
• Emotions, affects and feelings - differentiation and use
• Exercise: Arousal valence model as state reflection - locating feelings internally
• Other countries, other emotions or: Why feelings are not universal

• Exercise: How do you relate to your emotions? Constellations with emotions
• Understanding and internalizing individual messages from emotions
• Emotions as guardians of life - guardian model according to Sebastian Mauritz
• Emotions in different contexts of life: when do you use which emotion?

Module 3: Dealing with unpleasant emotions

• Does stress lead to competence amnesia? – how too much stress blocks our brain
• Exercise: Calming the body with the brain: Dual attention
• Exercise: Calming the brain with the body: Breathing techniques with biofeedback
• Exercise: Resilient rituals – establishing fixed rituals for emotion regulation

Module 4: Emotional resource activation

• Exercise: Activating emotions that motivate you for the future
• Exercise: Activating emotions that strengthen your relationship with yourself and others
• Exercise: Activating emotions that increase your creativity
• Exercise: Activating emotions that show you your inner fullness and wholeness

Your journey of discovery:

Understanding & depth: Experience aha moments that open up a new understanding of emotions and how they arise.

Practical applicability: Discover ways to use emotions in a targeted manner and integrate them into your everyday life.

New relationship to emotions: Develop a reflective attitude to feelings, beyond “good” and “bad”.

Expanding language: Sharpen your perception by naming and describing emotions more precisely.

Emotional panorama: Gain insights into your emotional map and its importance for resilience.

Reappraisal: Learn techniques to consciously reinterpret emotions and use them constructively.

Functions of emotions: Understand the role of the arousal valence model and its connection to your everyday life.

Arousal regulation: Control inner states through conscious breathing techniques and regulation.

Activate emotional resources: Promote positive emotions such as gratitude and motivation in a targeted manner.

Self-transcendent emotions: Discover the power of compassion, amazement (Awe) and other overarching feelings.

Practical exercises: Integrate methods such as the Awe Walk to strengthen your emotional resilience.

Who is the course suitable for?

Do you support other people professionally in their personal growth as a coach, manager or consultant and have the feeling that their anger, fears, sadness or other emotions are blocking their development? Do you realize that you need more points of contact to pick up and motivate your counterpart emotionally?

Then discover the power of emotions in this course and learn how to use them in your professional and private life. Because we humans are emotional beings. Emotions influence our decisions, the way we conduct relationships and how we interact with our environment in general. If you want to master life's challenges, you need to master the forces that move us through the world: emotions.

This journey combines in-depth knowledge with practical tools that will accompany you in the long term.

Our Masterclass Facilitators:

Klaus Motoki Tonn is founder, creative mind, expert for strategy, communication and culture.
He looks back on over 22 years of experience in corporations, start-ups and social businesses. As founder of Lumen, he builds communities such as Finde Zukunft and passionately curates topics in the field of identity, purpose and meaning.
Klaus Motoki Tonn is certified as a trainer for stress management and as a breathing coach according to §20 SGB, as a facilitator for Search Inside Yourself and Time To Think ©. Klaus Motoki Tonn teaches at Lisbon MBA and has designed over 150 training courses in the areas of emotional intelligence, mindfulness and communication. He is the author of the book “Ikigai: The Secret of Small Things”, published by Penguin Random House.

Ruben Langwara is a business psychologist, expert in emotional resilience, resilience trainer, training designer and author of specialist books.

He has been in demand as an expert on emotions, emotional intelligence and empathy in companies and specialist journals for several years. After completing his degree in business psychology, he headed the research and training design department at the Eilert Academy in Berlin for six years. Now, as a resilience trainer and coach, he uses science-oriented training concepts to bring so-called emotion-workers in particular, such as managers and service staff, sales staff, medical professionals, coaches, trainers and psychotherapists, into contact with their own emotions in order to reduce stress and strengthen resilience. He works with the Resilienz-Akademie Göttingen as a project partner for emotional resilience. His specialist book on this topic, “The Power of Our Emotions”, was published by Junfermann-Verlag in 2022.