On Wednesday, June 18th, the last of the “Where’s My Sanity?” series at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis featured discussion about emotions at work. In this workshop, Claudia Luiz laid out the foundation of how to excel at 
work, with a detailed formula for how to progress by developing communication, leadership and confidence skills. Then, she illustrated how emotions can interfere with advancement in each area.
Through group discussion, stories were told that illustrated a wide range of emotional obstacles to advancement, like having a conflict, regressing, getting induced with powerful feelings and having unresolved feelings.
The evening then progressed to analyzing which feelings can and can’t be worked with. Participants were helped to use their feelings to understand the difference between emotions that can be addressed and worked with, versus dynamics that are unconscious and can’t be successfully addressed.
Techniques were then laid forth, including how to tolerate emotions better, join and explore, that would be best suited for both conscious and unconscious obstacles to progressing at work. These techniques included how to explore and process your own feelings, as well as help other people with them. Many dynamics were discussed, including hopelessness, resentment, the need for respect, problems with authority and more.
As usual for a discussion at BGSP, a diverse set of stories and experiences contributed to a rich discussion about how to scratch the surface of behaviors to get underneath why progress can be so elusive, and what to do and not do about it. The evening ending with a comment by one of the participants that when you start talking and learning about emotional dynamics, you realize how much there is to learn.
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