How Do We Sustain an Open Heart?

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Eve Ekman, PhD, MSW, is a senior fellow at the Greater Good Science Center. A skilled speaker, researcher, and group facilitator with experience working in emergency rooms and other health-care settings, she brings a unique background ideally suited to training individuals and organizations in the science of resilience, compassion, mindfulness, and emotional awareness. With Sounds True, she is coauthor (with Dacher Keltner, PhD) of the online program The Greater Good Training for Health Professionals. In this podcast, Sounds True founder Tami Simon speaks with Dr. Eve Ekman about deepening our emotional awareness and developing our capacity to keep our hearts open, especially when working with others. Their conversation explores why some people experience burnout while others do not in the same situation; Eve’s work with her father on the Atlas of Emotions and its goal to help us calm the mind; the concept of emotion granularity; the practice of decentering to diffuse the power of an emotional experience; interoception and how it relates to being present; “unhooking from the narrative” when we find an emotion has been re-triggered; emotions as timelines that tell a story; the ongoing debate about the nature of anger; using technology as a force for good; sustainable empathy; emotional resonance and cognitive appraisal, and how these become a crucial juncture for empathy; repairing our health-care system while empowering those who work in it; what the research tells us about the importance of finding meaning; and more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Insights at the Edge, produced by SoundsTrue.
0:05.4	My name is Tammy Simon, I'm the founder of SoundsTrue, and I'd love to take a moment
0:10.2	to introduce you to the SoundsTrue Foundation.
0:13.6	The goal of the SoundsTrue Foundation is to provide access and eliminate financial barriers
0:20.3	to transformational education and resources, such as teachings and trainings on mindfulness,
0:27.8	emotional awareness and self-compassion.
0:31.2	If you'd like to learn more and join with us in our efforts, please visit SoundsTrueFoundation.org.
0:42.6	In this episode of Insights at the Edge, my guest is Dr. Eve Eckman.
0:47.8	Eve Eckman is a contemplative social scientist and a senior fellow and director of training
0:55.2	at the Greater Good Science Center.
0:57.6	She worked for years as a social worker in health care, criminal justice, and social welfare
1:04.6	systems, which inspired her to earn her master's and PhD at UC Berkeley, and then complete
1:12.1	her postdoctoral training at the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine.
1:19.4	Her research has focused on helping professional care providers prevent burnout by giving them
1:27.4	easier access to practices of attention, insight, and resilience.
1:33.4	With SoundsTrue, along with Dacker Keltner, Eve Eckman has created a new online offering.
1:41.8	It's called the Greater Good Training for Healthcare Professionals, science-based skills
1:48.6	for emotional resilience and well-being, and it's such an honor for SoundsTrue to partner
1:54.9	with the Greater Good Science Center on this offering, if you're interested, you can learn
1:59.9	more at SoundsTrue.com.
2:02.5	Eve Eckman understands emotions from the perspective of the great wisdom traditions,
2:10.5	from the view of scientific research, and from her own internal investigations, and she
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