EmotionalEducation.biz
Dana Willcox, LCSW-C
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LAST MODIFIED: 6 / 08
This website
offers paid assistance in
educating
yourself about emotions.
As a psychotherapist, I
do this every hour of my working life. It has long occurred
to me
that getting educated about emotions has great value apart from the specific
role it
plays in psychotherapy. With the existence of this
wonderful development called the
internet,
it's now possible to offer
this service to
interested individuals as
a
self-development or
self-improvement experience, in a very cost-effective manner.
WHAT
EMOTIONAL
EDUCATION IS
"Emotional education" as I am
offering it consists of a structured process of instruction
--
including reading, discussion, question and answer, and "homework
assignments" -- similar to any online school or college
course, EXCEPT
THAT:
-- It is open-ended, rather than having a set finishing time.
--
There are no grades, other than your own satisfaction.
--
There is no final exam.
--
There are no deadlines.
--
All "homework" and "assignments" are actually completely
optional.
-- You don't have to do anything you don't want to do.
--
You don't have to work any harder than you want to.
--
You can quit at any time, and re-start at any time, with no
penalty.
THE
CORE CURRICULUM
There is
a "core curriculum" to
this approach to emotional education, in the sense that in my opinion
any adult human who considers him- or herself to be "emotionally
educated" must, at a minimum, be
able to do the following:
--
recognize the reality of emotions.
-- notice
and identify (label) emotional reactions in self.
-- notice and identify (label) emotional
reactions in others.
-- be
able to engage in discussion of emotional subjects, when needed.
Therefore
these skills will be a focus of attention in this educational program.
-- I will also offer specific guidance on
particular subjects,
understood from an
emotional perspective, for a small additional fee.
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WHAT
YOU CAN GET
OUT OF IT
Some of
the benefits include:
a consistent, self-validating system for
living
successfully
improved chances of being happy
an
improved understanding of yourself
an
improved understanding of other people
improved
relationships with other people
a better
understanding of motivation
increased wisdom
you will also make yourself unusual,
since hardly
anybody pays attention to
emotions in a serious,
systematic way.
plus, learning about emotions makes an
excellent hobby.
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The basic course consists of:
-- Instructional
reading material.
-- Questions for you to answer for
yourself.
-- Answers to specific questions you may
have.
-- Encouragement and guidance in the
process.
-- Access
to an on-going discussion forum for interaction with other participants.
For an additional
fee, you can get:
-- Specific guidance units
on particular subjects.
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The following steps must occur:
1.
You sign up.
2.
You make an initial payment
of $10.00 or more (the cost is $10 per month.)
3.
You receive an initial package of reading material.
4.
You identify specific areas of interest. Examples
are:
the general
nature of emotions and emotionality
using emotions
for guidance and decision-making
emotions
and relationships
emotions
and parenting
emotions
and career choices
emotions and religion
emotions
and morality
emotions and
money
emotions and
politeness
emotions
and sex
emotions
and meaning in life
or
emotions
and anything else you
want to specify
5.
You begin to learn by following further instructions.
Specific Guidance units
are available at a rate of $10 each.
They will be sent as email attachments in WORD.
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Q: How do I know this stuff is true?
A: You don't
know it's true. Everything I say here is my opinion, though it's based on my training,
education, and decades of experience.
Your attitude should be, "I will test
these statements
against my own experience and see whether I end up agreeing
with them or not."
Q: What happens if I don't make my payment by the first of a
month?
A: I'll allow up to the 7th of each month for payment to
arrive at my account.
After that, I will
shut off access.
Q: What if I make up the late payment?
A: Your access will be restored immediately with no penalty.
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Cost for on-going participation is
$10.00 per month,
payable on the first of
each month.
Cost for each unit of specific guidance is
$10.00.
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I am a licensed,
certified social worker, with a clinical specialty (LCSW-C), in the
State of Maryland, licensed since 1979, in private practice of
psychotherapy in Gaithersburg, Maryland (a suburb of Washington, DC.)
a note to
other professionals
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You can email me at: EmotionalEducation@verizon.net
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As of October, 2007, Emotional Education
School
is now open for business.
Send me
an email or make a payment
to indicate you are interested.
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All payments are set at $10.00
in this system
(but you can make as many as you want to!)
Payments can be made with a check or cash, mailed to my PO Box address:
Dana Willcox, LCSW-C
PO Box 644
Gaithersburg, MD 20884-0644
(Previously I had a credit-card
arrangement set up so people could make payments online
with their credit cards, but it was expensive to maintain and
there wasn't enough
business to justify it. If business picks up enough I will set
that up again.)
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Guidance units are currently available on the following topics:
emotions and relationships
emotions and sex
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A note to other professionals:
Everything I am presenting here
is, as far as I am aware, consistent with mainstream psychodynamic
psychiatry and the DSM, as well as ethical and legal standards in the
state of Maryland. All of this information is available from
other sources, if anyone chooses to pursue it. While
I
recognize (as I tried to make clear on my other website, IJustWantToBeHappy.com)
that there may be some risk in suggesting people pay attention to
emotional realities, I believe the potential benefits --
on average, over time -- will be far greater than any distress.
I am
alert -- as a professional
responsibility -- for any signals of danger or distress, and strongly advocate
seeking appropriate treatment when it seems indicated.
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