Emotions Are Not What You Think (Live)
Saturday, August 16, 2025 - 10-11am (EDT)
Emotions Are Not What You Think: Change Your Emotions, Change Your Life Series
A 12-Week Journey Toward Emotional Mastery and Lasting Transformation
What if the key to changing our life wasn’t outside of you—but inside? Modern neuroscience confirms what ancient wisdom has long suggested: We don’t just feel our emotions—we create them.
And if we can create them, we can recreate our entire life.
This 12-week Saturday series is designed to help us and our patients and clients take charge of our emotional world. Using the SWEET Method—a blend of cutting-edge science, deep introspection, and simple daily tools—we’ll learn how to transform emotions from a source of stress into a source of power.
Location: Live Online via Zoom
CEUs: 1
Series Objectives
By the end of the series, you will:
- Understand how emotions are constructed and how to deconstruct them
- Identify and shift emotional habits rooted in memory, identity, and prediction
- Develop tools to regulate, reshape, and repattern your emotional landscape
- Learn how to help your clients change their emotional default—and change their life
📅 Weekly Sessions & Titles
Session 1 – August 16, 2025: Emotions Are Not What You Think
Discover the science of emotion construction—and why this changes everything.
Session 2 – August 23, 2025: Emotion Before Thought: How It All Begins
Learn how emotions arise beneath conscious awareness—and how to intervene early.
Session 3 - September 13, 2025: You Feel What You Predict
Explore the predictive brain and how to change your emotional expectations.
Session 4 – September 20, 2025: The Body Keeps Predicting
Understand the body’s role in emotional construction—and how to shift it.
Session 5 – September 27, 2025: Naming is the Beginning of Healing
Build emotional granularity to better regulate and respond.
Session 6 – October 4, 2025: Emotions and Identity: The Loop
Break the cycle between how you feel and who you believe you are.
Session 7 – October 18, 2025: Memory, Emotion, and the Past in the Present
Recognize when emotional reactions are echoes—and how to rewrite them.
Session 8 – October 25, 2025: Substitution, Not Suppression
Use science-backed tools to shift emotions without denial or repression.
Session 9 – November 1, 2025: Emotion, Breath, and the Now
Anchor yourself in the present moment using breath and body.
Session 10 – November 8, 2025: Emotional Contagion and Relational Energy
Protect and direct your emotional state in a social world.
Session 11 – November 15, 2025: Emotional Habits: The Patterns We Repeat
Uncover and change the emotional loops that keep you stuck.
Session 12 – November 22, 2025: Emotional Mastery: Your New Default State
Integrate your learning and declare your new emotional foundation
✨ Who Should Join?
This series is ideal for clinicians, caregivers, leaders, healers, and seekers who want to deepen their emotional intelligence, master their internal state, and lead more empowered lives—from the inside out.
Join us for one hour a week—and change the rest of your life and help your patients and clients do the same.
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Who is this for?
This course is for any clinician invested in learning new or honing existing skills to be able to use in dynamic ways to support their patients and clients and to end suffering.
KEY INFORMATION:
This course is eligible for 1 CEU for Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Mental Health Counselors, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists, and Psychologists in New York State
For more information about CEU approval, please click here.
Format: Live Online Seminar
Date and Time: Saturday, August 16, 2025 - 10-11am (EDT)
"I am so grateful to be a part of SWEET. It is educational, well presented, and I learn something new or forgotten with every webinar that I attend. Dr. Sidor has a way of teaching that makes it enjoyable. That is a gift rarely seen in someone so brilliant." - Vilma, LCSW-R
"The facilitator was engaging and knowledgeable." - Marie, LCSW
"I would recommend this webinar as it was highly informative, real-world, and the tools are implementable." - Mary, LMSW
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Your Facilitator and Co-Facilitator
Mardoche Sidor, MD, is a Harvard-trained Quadruple Board Certified Psychiatrist, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University, School of Physicians and Surgeons, trained in and taught all major psychotherapeutic modalities, including and not limited to CBT, DBT, Family Systems, and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. He is also the author of 11 books including Journey to Empowerment, Discovering Your Worth, The Power of Faith. and, The Art of Living. Dr. Sidor has worked both as a primary care physician and Medical Director in three different settings, including a Chief Medical Officer of the Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services (CASES). He is a main facilitator for the SWEET Institute. His 11th book, entitled, NLP for Clinicians is now available to the public.
Karen Dubin, PhD, LCSW, is a Columbia-trained Social Worker with wide clinical, teaching, and supervision experience. She also has a background in management, mentorship, and leadership that spans more than 20 years. Her added passion is in advocacy and coaching. She has previously held Executive level positions, and two other directorships in different organizations. She is currently Adjunct Faculty at Columbia University School of Social Work and Adelphi University School of Social Work. She also maintains a private practice, provides supervision, and clinical and management training. She is also a personal and executive-level coach. She is a main facilitator for the SWEET Institute.
SWEET Curriculum
