Learn how to feel better by learning how to feel, better.
An audio course of ten micro lessons offered through InsightTimer.
We are very happy to announce our first course – How To Master Your Emotions has been published on InsightTimer. It’s an audio course comprising ten micro lessons of between 10 and 16 minutes in length. It was written, recorded, edited and produced by us, just the two of us. We’re immensely proud of it.
You can listen to the first day before choosing to purchase the rest of the course ($19.99 for non-premium members – that’s around R300 – a damn steal, if you ask us). You will have to have an account with Insight Timer, and if you wish to listen on your computer, to use Chrome as your browser.
Why should you?
Juggling multiple, different and new responsibilities in the face of unrelenting uncertainty requires a different set of tools and practices than those we currently have. Now more than ever learning to thrive in an uncertain, unstable world requires sustained emotional resilience and psychological robustness.
Very few of us have been taught how to appropriately express, manage and regulate our emotions. Many of us feel that we are at the mercy of our emotions, when in fact we can master our emotions.
What you will learn
In this 10 day course you will learn about the science of how emotions are made, the importance of being able to regulate how you feel and a way to work with emotions that is both easy to learn and easy to use. You will be introduced to Shape of Emotion, a model, process and tool of how we structure, store, represent and regulate our inner feeling states. You will be given an overview of the design of Shape of Emotion as well as how it works.
Each lesson is framed by one or two of the twelve principles that underpin this work. At the end of each day a short practice will help consolidate the session and deepen your understanding and use of Shape of Emotion.
We look forward to getting your feedback and insights.
Join us on InsightTimer for a Live Emotional Fitness Class held every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday morning at 06h30 or Tuesday and Thursday at 17h00.
Connect with us on InsightTimer
Matthew Green
Reducing the Certainty Deficit in high-performing people and teams · Emotional fitness coach
Matthew works with athletes, performance teams, and anyone who wants to reduce the Certainty Deficit in their situation or context.
The Certainty Deficit is the space between what you can do and what your body will let you do when it counts. It is context-specific and situational. A person or athlete can have zero deficit in one situation and a significant one in another.
The body holds beliefs that keep the Certainty Deficit in place. These beliefs run deeper than self-talk and faster than any conscious strategy. When they shift, the ceiling shifts, and new possibilities arise.
Matthew is also an emotional fitness coach who supports individuals to live and lead from a place of inner clarity and stability. The work is somatic-first, practical, and grounded.
If you're seeing a pattern that current approaches haven't shifted, let's talk.
My origin story: Why elite athletes underperform when it counts
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