Presentations 2008 - 2009

Thursday, May 21, 2008

Catching Micro Expressions of Emotions

In under three hours, you can learn to recognize very brief facial expression of emotion. Such micro expressions reveal either deliberately concealed emotions or repressed emotions that the person who shows them is unaware of experiencing. Paul Ekman has been studying the facial expression of emotion for forty years and this workshop presents his group training program as described in Emotions Revealed (2004) and Destructive Emotions (Goleman, 2003).

Often we are distracted by other sources – the words spoken, the sound of the voice, the gestures, and our own thoughts about what we need to say next. With the training in Micro Expression Training, we will spot emotional expressions of the seven basic affects without having to think about them. This skill is obviously useful for counsellors and therapists and is also being taught to law enforcement personnel. The use of such a training module will also be useful for clients with social skills deficits who are not decoding others’emotional expressions appropriately.

Presenter: Marshall Wilensky, Ph.D.

Marshall Wilensky is a Registered Psychologist in British Columbia, listed in the Canadian Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology, a Diplomate of the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress and a Board Certified Expert in Traumatic Stress. Marshall trained in EMDR in 1993 with Dr. Shapiro, was an EMDR Institute Facilitator (1996 – 2006) and an EMDRIA Approved Trainer from 1998. He is an accredited Trainer/Researcher by Paul Ekman. He has been an Instructor in Counselling Psychology and Clinical Psychology for Simon Fraser University, the British Columbia School of Professional Psychology and the University of British Columbia. Marshall has been in Private Practice specializing in Trauma, Anxiety Disorders and Phantom Limb Pain in Vancouver since 1980 and consulted for Canada Employment, several hospitals, the National Parole Board and Forensic Services. He has been qualified as an expert witness in Neuropsychology, Adjustment to Trauma and Disability in the Supreme Courts of British Columbia and Saskatchewan.