Emotional Competence and Compassion Training

Scientific Evaluation of Trainings for Emotional Competence, Compassion and Relationship Competences

In this study several different face-to-face workshops about emotional competence and compassion are scientifically evaluated with psychometric questionnaires and heart rate variability measuring.

Stress and stress related diseases are a huge health burden in modern societies. Psycho-emotional stress plays a key role in stress regulation. Therefore this study aims to investigate the effects of online-courses addressing emotion regulation.

For this aim several different workshops about emotional competence and compassion are scientifically evaluated with psychometric questionnaires and heart rate variability measuring. The workshops are planned by the trainers and people register on their own initiative.

The seminars are either single workshops over three days or a yearly program consisting of three three-day-workshops. They consist of lectures and exercises about the character of the different feelings, about the characteristics of emotions and teach practices on how to dael with difficult emotions.

Inclusion Criteria:

• 18-85 years
• participation in one of the included courses
• e-mail address

Exclusion Criteria:

• participation in another study
• no verbal communication (german) possible
• dementia or another disease that limits cognitive abilities