Concepts
The irreducible epistemic atoms underlying the curriculum. 4,828 atoms across 8 types
Create explicit transition rituals between high-contagion…
Create explicit transition rituals between high-contagion environments and personal spaces to prevent absorbed emotions from bleeding into subsequent contexts.
Establish baseline emotional states before entering known…
Establish baseline emotional states before entering known high-contagion situations to create reference points that make absorbed emotions detectable through contrast.
Recognize organizational emotional fields as system-level…
Recognize organizational emotional fields as system-level phenomena distinct from individual emotions, attributing persistent collective tones to structural rather than personal sources.
Practice compassion (caring about suffering) rather…
Practice compassion (caring about suffering) rather than empathic distress (merging with suffering) to maintain sustainable emotional engagement.
Treat thoughts and emotions as observable cognitive events…
Treat thoughts and emotions as observable cognitive events rather than direct readouts of reality to enable metacognitive regulation.
Identify and cultivate relationships with emotionally…
Identify and cultivate relationships with emotionally differentiated colleagues who can name organizational fields without amplifying them, creating islands of clarity within collective emotional weather.
Disrupt automatic empathic absorption by engaging curiosity…
Disrupt automatic empathic absorption by engaging curiosity and investigation about the other person's experience, which activates prefrontal regulation while maintaining attentional engagement.
Schedule recovery practices immediately after emotionally…
Schedule recovery practices immediately after emotionally intense encounters rather than waiting for depletion signals to appear.
Engage in mastery activities in unrelated domains after…
Engage in mastery activities in unrelated domains after empathic depletion to restore self-regulation capacity without adding cognitive load in the depleted domain.
Distinguish between felt responsibility for someone's…
Distinguish between felt responsibility for someone's emotional state and genuine care about their welfare—the former requires intervention, the latter allows presence without control.
Map the gap between what you feel responsible for and what…
Map the gap between what you feel responsible for and what you are actually responsible for in each relationship to identify where codependent patterns operate.
Communicate emotional labor capacity using three-part…
Communicate emotional labor capacity using three-part structure: validate the need, state your actual capacity, offer an alternative timing or format.
Set partial boundaries rather than oscillating between…
Set partial boundaries rather than oscillating between unlimited availability and total withdrawal—state specific capacity limits in real time instead of waiting for collapse.
Evaluate emotional exchanges using four consent elements
notification before sharing, inquiry about availability, attunement during interaction, and acknowledgment of cost afterward.
Distinguish emotional sharing from emotional dumping…
Distinguish emotional sharing from emotional dumping by presence or absence of regard for recipient capacity, not by intensity of emotion shared.
Break observations into hierarchical levels from events…
Break observations into hierarchical levels from events to mental models, intervening at the structural or mental-model level rather than reacting to individual events.
Log emotional exchanges retrospectively rather…
Log emotional exchanges retrospectively rather than evaluating them in real-time, as the contagion process itself compromises your ability to assess the exchange while it happens.
Apply three-step filtering to all incoming emotional…
Apply three-step filtering to all incoming emotional signals: acknowledge the signal's arrival, evaluate whether it should influence your state, decide to allow/redirect/release.
Simplify emotional filtering rules to 'release unless…
Simplify emotional filtering rules to 'release unless clearly mine' under high cognitive load rather than attempting full evaluation, as partial filtering beats crashed filtering.
Configure emotional filtering rules based on your documented
Configure emotional filtering rules based on your documented contagion vulnerabilities rather than using uniform filters across all emotional traffic.
Separate information content from emotional delivery…
Separate information content from emotional delivery mechanisms to preserve informational access while eliminating contagion vectors.
When emotional processing sessions yield repetition without…
When emotional processing sessions yield repetition without new insight, terminate processing and shift to integration through reduced attention.
Flood sensory channels deliberately to starve rumination…
Flood sensory channels deliberately to starve rumination of attentional resources through competitive inhibition.
Frame boundary communications using…
Frame boundary communications using connection-limit-reconnection structure to preserve relationship integrity while establishing clear constraints.