Emotional API
A practical exploration of how feelings work in humans, using the metaphor of an API.
Emotions are messy and uncomfortable, so why can't we just ignore them?
Because emotional skills are critical for working well on a team, and for the quality of our work.
The Emotional API concept helps you learn how emotions are affecting you by modeling them as an API and looking at the code.
It turns out poor handling of emotions impacts cognition, memory, and communication.
My websites, talks and workshops present my toolkit for handling emotions, full of practical advice and new ways of thinking.
Hacking Your Emotional Firewall
Firewalls are great, they filter out traffic you don't want from the internet. In this talk I'll take a look at what's inside us, at the connection between our body and mind, and imagine a firewall that sits in between. What if we could use the magic of TCP to find disconnected parts of ourselves and connect to them? We would end up experiencing greater wholeness and increased understanding of our minds, bodies, emotions, and motivations.
Hacking Your Emotional API
Presented all over the US and in multiple countries, Hacking your Emotional API presents my core metaphor. Using the ideas of an API, that it's public, that code runs when it receives a request, and that we control that code, I map out the ways the we as humans experience emotions. With that foundation I present my toolkit of ideas and practical techniques that everyone can use to understand the emotions their API responds with, and how to refactor those responses for a better life, better work, and better relationships.
