Profs & Pints Baltimore: Emotional Literacy

Profs and Pints Baltimore presents: “Emotional Literacy,” a research-based discussion of our feelings’ sources and impact on our overall well-being, with Tiffany McIntyre, adjunct professor at Towson University and practicing psychotherapist.

Genuine emotional awareness has become challenging to foster in a culture shaped by chronic stress, urgency, and hyper-individualism. Many people lack the tools to recognize, label, and work with their inner experiences, setting the stage for conflict, burnout, disconnection, and relational strain.

Gain a deep understanding of what emotions are and why they matter by hearing psychotherapist Tiffany McIntyre draw from affective science, neuropsychology, and her own clinical experience to shed light on our inner worlds.

She’ll discuss how inadequacies in affective education, which focuses on the emotional and social development of students, have resulted in emotions being misunderstood, suppressed, or treated as personal failures rather than essential sources of information. She’ll describe how many adults today are learning for the first time how emotions shape behavior, relationships, and health.

You’ll learn to understand emotions as functional, biological, and psychological systems. We’ll discuss how emotions are constructed in the brain and body, what they are designed to signal, and why people vary so widely in emotional intensity, awareness, and regulation.

There’s a good chance you’ll feel better for having come to this talk. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus sales tax and processing fees. Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Bar doors open at 5 pm. The talk starts at 6:30).