Four weeks.
Four examinations.
No formulas for being human.
A small-group workplace class for people who genuinely want to understand what is
happening inside them.
Norwyn teaches emotional language by examining the hidden machinery beneath what we
feel: the stories we believe, the identities we defend, the deals we make with
reality, and the fight we add to difficult emotions.
It can make someone stop. Think. Recognise something in themselves.
But emotional language is not something people become fluent in because they
attended one talk.
The class is where we stay with the questions long enough to learn something.
You wouldn’t attend one Spanish lesson and announce that you speak Spanish.
Emotional language is no different.
Four weeks. Four examinations.
The Emotional Language Class does not teach four different emotions. It examines four
forces that quietly shape much of our emotional experience.
What would I have to believe for this feeling to make perfect sense?
Emotions don’t arrive in isolation. They arrive inside a story.
Someone doesn’t simply feel rejected. There is usually something underneath it:
They chose someone else because I’m not good enough.
My partner hasn’t replied because something is wrong.
My manager criticised me because they don’t respect me.
I am behind where I should be in life.
The class does not teach people to replace negative thoughts with positive ones. We examine something more fundamental:
What have you concluded?
What are you assuming?
What story has become so believable that you stopped noticing it was a story?
Every emotion makes sense inside the story producing it.
We examine the assumptions, conclusions and invisible narratives that turn an event into an emotional reality.
Who are you trying so hard to protect?
A lot of emotion is not only about what happened. It is about what what happened appears to say about me.
Why does criticism devastate one person and barely affect another?
Why can rejection become humiliation?
Why can not being recognised create resentment?
Often, the event has threatened an identity we have become invested in protecting.
Smart. Successful. Good. Wanted.
Strong. In control. Important. Needed.
The class examines how much emotional energy we spend defending an image of who we think we need to be.
Some experiences hurt because something happened. Others hurt because of what the event appears to say about who we are.
We examine identity, approval, insecurity and the exhausting work of protecting the person we think we need to be.
What deal have you secretly made with reality?
Most of us carry invisible agreements with life.
If I work hard, I should succeed.
If I’m a good person, people should treat me well.
If they love me, they should understand me.
If I prepare enough, nothing should go wrong.
If I become successful, I should finally feel secure.
The problem is simple: reality never signed the contract.
When life refuses to behave according to the agreement in our head, we experience disappointment, resentment, fear, anxiety and the urge to control.
Most suffering contains an unspoken sentence: “This wasn’t supposed to happen.”
We uncover the deals we make with life, people and ourselves, and what happens emotionally when reality refuses to honour an agreement it never made.
What if the feeling isn’t the problem?
A difficult feeling appears. Then we often create a second problem.
Fear appears. Then: I shouldn’t feel this.
Anxiety appears. Then: why am I still anxious?
Sadness appears. Then: I need to get back to being happy.
Now there is the original experience, and the struggle against the experience.
The class examines one of the assumptions beneath modern wellness: that every unpleasant internal state requires immediate intervention.
Sometimes our desperation to get rid of a feeling is exactly what gives it more power.
We spend extraordinary amounts of energy trying not to feel what we already feel.
We examine resistance, control and the possibility that peace may have less to do with removing an emotion than ending the war against it.
This isn’t for everyone.
Emotional education does not work particularly well when somebody has been told by
HR that attendance is mandatory.
So the class is deliberately small.
Companies create the opportunity. People put themselves forward, are nominated, or
are invited. Participation remains voluntary.
The goal is not a room full of employees who have to be there. The goal is a small
room of people who genuinely want to go deeper.
Small rooms.
Serious conversations.
People who chose to be there.
How the class works.
The talk can introduce the idea to the wider organisation. The class is for the
people who want more.
Duration4 weeks
Rhythm1 class per week
Group size10 to 15 people
Taught byThe same teacher throughout
FormatClosed workplace cohort
DeliveryIn person
AttendanceVoluntary
Your teacher.
Norwyn K
Emotional Language Teacher
Not your guru.
Norwyn K has spent more than a decade speaking, writing and working with questions
around the mind, stress, anxiety, emotional wellbeing and human behaviour.
Over time, one thing became increasingly obvious:
People did not only need more awareness. They needed somewhere to learn.
The Emotional Language Class grew from that observation.
Give your people access to something they were never taught.
Bring The Emotional Language Class into your organisation as a four-week selected
workplace cohort. Tell me about your people and we will work out whether it fits.