Empath Karla McLaren is an award-winning author, social science researcher, and pioneering educator whose empathic approach to emotions has taken her through the healing of her own childhood trauma, into a healing career, and now into the study of sociology, anthropology, neurology, cognitive psychology, and education. She is the author of The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You (Sounds True, 2010), the online course Emotional Flow: Becoming Fluent in the Language of Emotions (Sounds True, 2012) and The Art of Empathy: A Complete Guide to Life's Most Essential Skill (October, 2013).Karla has taught at such venues as the University of San Francisco, Omega Institute, Naropa University, Kripalu, and the Association for Humanistic Psychology. Additionally, as a prison arts educator with the William James Foundation, she has utilized singing, drumming, and drama to help men in maximum security prisons explore and heal long-held emotional traumas. She is currently developing new forms of Empathy and Social Interaction curricula for neurologically diverse populations.Karla lives in California with her husband, Tino Plank, a Master's level nurse educator who works in hospice and end-of-life care.
"Karla McLaren illuminates the rich, textured landscape of
emotional intelligence. And in "The Art of Empathy," Karla wisely
explores the most important of all human feelings"-"empathy, the
glue of all positive human relationships."
"-"PETER A LEVINE, PhD
Author of Healing Trauma, and Freedom from Pain
" Empathy and emotional sensitivity are important parts of our
psycho-social makeup. They function, for the most part, in the
background of our conscious awareness. After four decades of study,
Karla McLaren has come up with lots of ideas for accessing those
aspects of ourselves in constructive and organized ways. A natural
empath, she has combined her own experience with current advances
in neuroscience, psychology, and sociology to create this indepth,
down-to-earth handbook for making empathy an active force in our
lives. She includes specific mindfulness exercises to deal with
issues such as grounding, boundaries, emotional honesty, and
recharging our emotional selves. Whether your customers are highly
empathic by nature or more emotionally constrained, this book
provides lots of suggestions for making communication and
interaction with others easier and more fulfilling."
-ANNA JEDRZIEWSKI, Retailing Insight -October Issue - "Karla
McLaren's unique, empathic view of emotions surprisingly revalues
even the most 'negative' emotions and opens pathways to
understanding the depths of the human soul."
-MICHAEL MEADE
Author of The World Behind the World
Karla McLaren illuminates the rich, textured landscape of emotional
intelligence. And in "The Art of Empathy", Karla wisely explores
the most important of all human feelings" "empathy, the glue of all
positive human relationships.
" "Peter A Levine, PhD
Author of Healing Trauma, and Freedom from Pain
" Empathy and emotional sensitivity are important parts of our
psycho-social makeup. They function, for the most part, in the
background of our conscious awareness. After four decades of study,
Karla McLaren has come up with lots of ideas for accessing those
aspects of ourselves in constructive and organized ways. A natural
empath, she has combined her own experience with current advances
in neuroscience, psychology, and sociology to create this indepth,
down-to-earth handbook for making empathy an active force in our
lives. She includes specific mindfulness exercises to deal with
issues such as grounding, boundaries, emotional honesty, and
recharging our emotional selves. Whether your customers are highly
empathic by nature or more emotionally constrained, this book
provides lots of suggestions for making communication and
interaction with others easier and more fulfilling."
ANNA JEDRZIEWSKI, Retailing Insight -October Issue -
"Karla McLaren's unique, empathic view of emotions surprisingly
revalues even the most 'negative' emotions and opens pathways to
understanding the depths of the human soul."
MICHAEL MEADE
Author of The World Behind the World
" Empathy and emotional sensitivity are important parts of our
psycho-social makeup. They function, for the most part, in the
background of our conscious awareness. After four decades of study,
Karla McLaren has come up with lots of ideas for accessing those
aspects of ourselves in constructive and organized ways. A natural
empath, she has combined her own experience with current advances
in neuroscience, psychology, and sociology to create this indepth,
down-to-earth handbook for making empathy an active force in our
lives. She includes specific mindfulness exercises to deal with
issues such as grounding, boundaries, emotional honesty, and
recharging our emotional selves. Whether your customers are highly
empathic by nature or more emotionally constrained, this book
provides lots of suggestions for making communication and
interaction with others easier and more fulfilling."
-ANNA JEDRZIEWSKI, Retailing Insight -October Issue -
"Karla McLaren's unique, empathic view of emotions surprisingly
revalues even the most 'negative' emotions and opens pathways to
understanding the depths of the human soul."
-MICHAEL MEADE
Author of The World Behind the World
Karla McLaren s unique, empathic view of emotions surprisingly
revalues even the most negative emotions and opens pathways to
understanding the depths of the human soul.
MICHAEL MEADE
Author of The World Behind the World
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