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Unbiased mentalizing, grounded in sensorial awareness, gives you clear, accurate understanding — reducing mistakes, misunderstandings and stress in your social interactions. In this course you will explore the following seven topics: 1. Interoceptive awareness (noticing sensations from within the body, such as hunger or heartbeat) 2. Exteroceptive awareness (noticing sensations coming from the environment, such as sound or smell) 3. Key sensory systems 4. Knowing yourself through your senses 5. Understanding others through their sensory signals 6. Accurately associating sensations with their causes 7. Understanding how sensations can bias mentalizing By the end of this course, you will be able to: · Pay appropriate attention to sensations from your body, such as hunger, pain, or fatigue, and from your environment, such as bright sunlight · Manage and regulate your internal and external sensory experiences · Recognize how these sensations can influence your thoughts, emotions and behavior · Become aware of biases in how you connect sensations with their causes · Notice sensations in others and consider how these sensations may influence their thoughts, feelings and actions · Apply thoughtful comparisons between yourself and others to account for differences in sensory sensitivity · Treat others, and expect to be treated, in ways that respect individual differences in sensitivity The components that guide your learning: 2 Videos 1 Theory exercise (learning retention) 2 Preparation exercises (establishing a baseline) 6 Observation exercises 5 Practice exercises 2 Evaluation exercises (assessing your learning progress) Your time commitment for the course: · The course takes about 8 hours to complete, but you can go at your own pace. · You will have access to the course for 12 months from the date you enroll, so there’s plenty of time to learn, practice, and revisit the material.