Empaticus i samarbete med Eve Ekman från Paul Ekman Group

Appen EMOTIVATION är ett svar på kritiken om brist på vetenskaplighet i många av apparna inom området självhjälp. Användaren utforskar sambandet mellan olika stimuli och sina känsloepisoder genom att rapportera senaste starka känsla två gånger om dagen. 

Samarbetet startade sommaren 2012 i Thailand där Empaticus VD Pål Dobrin deltog i en kursledarutbildning för metoden Cultivating Emotional Balance. Metoden har utvecklats för att ge människor redskap att hantera sin känslor och skärpa sin uppmärksamhetsförmåga. 

Cultivating Emotional Balance är en forskningsbaserad metod som kombinerar kunskaper från kontemplativa traditioner med de senaste rönen inom psykologin. Eve var kursledare då pappa Professor Paul Ekman, kallad för århundradets mest inflytelserika psykolog, inte kunde genomföra kursen pga hälsoproblem. 

Pål och Eve insåg snart att de delade gemensamma målsättningar och fröt till ett samarbete började gro. Förutom intresset delar de båda erfarenheten av att vara arvingar till sina föräldrars arbeten inom området. 

Pål är son till Gunilla Dobrin som skapat den populära metoden rePULSE-kontrollera dina impulser. 

Eve har ännu större skor att fylla då pappa Paul Ekman med sin forskning bl.a bevisade förekomsten av Universella känslor och Mikro-uttryck som avslöjar känslor som människor försöker dölja. Professor Paul Ekman har skrivit ett stort antal böcker och inspirerat till en TV-serie baserad på sin person. Serien heter Lie to me och huvudrollen spelas av Tim Roth. 

Närvarande på konferensen är:

Dan Siegel, MD, is clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, codirector of the Mindful Awareness Research Center, and executive director of the Mindsight Institute. He has been invited to lecture for the King of Thailand, Pope John Paul II, and the Dalai Lama. His books includeMindsight and The Developing Mind. drdansiegel.com

Linda Lantieri, PhD, author of Building Emotional Intelligence, has 40 years of experience in education as a former teacher, administrator, and faculty member at Hunter College in New York City. innerresilience-tidescenter.org

Daniel Goleman, PhD, brought the concept of emotional intelligence to a global audience and reported on behavior and the brain for the New York Times for many years. He is a cofounder of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) at the Yale University Child Studies Center (now at the University of Illinois at Chicago), whose mission centers on bringing evidence-based programs in emotional literacy to schools worldwide. He is the author of many books, including Emotional Intelligence. danielgoleman.info

Shauna L. Shapiro, PhD, coauthor of The Art and Science of Mindfulness, is associate professor of counseling psychology at Santa Clara University. She has conducted extensive clinical research investigating the effects of mindfulness-based therapies and has published more than 60 book chapters and journal articles.

Jyoti Subramanian has worked for nearly a decade at Challenge Day, a nonprofit organization that addresses bullying, teasing, suicide, alienation, and isolation among teens. She facilitates workshops for more than 100 teens at a time, utilizing compassion and understanding as tools to help teens look at themselves and their world with new perspective. challengeday.org

Daniel Rechtschaffen, MA, LMFT, is the founding director of the Mindful Education Institute, a year-long mindfulness in education teacher training program. He has helped create curriculum for organizations such as Mindfulness Without Borders, Mindful Schools, and The Mindful Mothering Project. Rechtschaffen is a licensed marriage and family therapist and maintains a private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area. mindfuleducationinstitute.com

Lama Dawa Tarchin Phillips is founder and executive director of the Institute of Compassionate Awareness. A classically trained meditation teacher, Buddhist lama, and former Buddhist monk, he collaborates on research exploring the many positive effects of mindfulness training on school children.

Leslie Booker has worked with at-risk communities and facilitated mindfulness-based interventions for adolescents through New York University. Passionate about teaching yoga and meditation to incarcerated youth through the Lineage Project, she also leads Lineage Project teacher trainings, along with other trainings in yoga and activism. lineageproject.org 
Gunilla Dobrin has extensive experience in clinical work with children as a cognitive therapist and method developer in Swedish institutions. She is founder of Repulse, which develops programs for Social and Emotional Learning and tools that help people manage their emotions, negative impulses, and ways of thinking. The method is widely used in Scandinavia.  Pål Dobrin has a background in international crisis and conflict management and is chief executive officer of Empaticus, a Swedish company producing mindfulness and Social and Emotional Learning tools.