What is Dynamic Emotional Integration?

Dynamic Emotional Integration^® is based on the work in Karla McLaren’s books, and you can follow these links to learn more:

The New Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings are Trying to Tell You

• Your ability to work intelligently with your emotions is a key factor in determining your overall well-being. But how many of us were taught what to do in the face of overwhelming grief, seething anger, or paralyzing panic? Through experiential exercises covering a full spectrum of feelings from anger, fear, and shame to jealousy, grief, joy, and more, you’ll discover how to work with your own and others’ emotions with fluency and expertise.

The Language of Emotions Workbook: A Practical Guide to Reveal the Wisdom in Each of Your Feelings

• The Language of Emotions Workbook is an accessible, practical, and activities-filled workbook that will help you learn to identify, understand, and work directly with the genius in your own emotions.
• This dynamic workbook gives you specific practices to help you work directly with each of your seventeen emotions, questions to ask yourself to understand the messages behind each emotion, a deep understanding of the gifts and skills each emotion brings to you, and many ideas and activities to help you work with your emotions in new and supportive ways.

The Art of Empathy: A Complete Guide to Life’s Most Essential Skill 

• Through Karla’s groundbreaking model of the six essential aspects of empathy, you’ll learn how to understand empathy clearly, how to pinpoint your strengths and address your challenges, and how to support robust and healthy empathy in yourself and others.

Embracing Anxiety: How to Access the Genius of This Vital Emotion

• Most of us have been taught to treat anxiety as a sign of weakness or trouble. Some people even talk about anxiety as an epidemic, as if it’s a serious disease that’s also contagious. This is a shame, because anxiety has an important job to do: it helps you look ahead, organize yourself, and gather the energy you need to get things done.
• Your anxiety helps you identify problems and opportunities, and it brings you the energy and focus you need to face them. Yes, you need skills to work well with your anxiety, but your anxiety is a valuable and brilliant emotion that’s essential to your ability to motivate yourself.

The Power of Emotions at Work: Accessing the Vital Intelligence in Your Workplace

• We’ve all been taught that “being professional” means suppressing our honest emotions while we’re on the clock — but research shows that this actually leads to a loss in productivity, diminished creativity, and crushing job dissatisfaction.
• The Power of Emotions at Work welcomes the emotions back into the workplace (they have been there all along!), and teaches all workers how to create respectful, effective, and emotionally well-regulated environments where everyone can get their best work done.

Find a Licensed Dynamic Emotional Integration Professional

Note for readers of Karla’s previous work: In 2003, Karla McLaren made a sea change in her work, and left her previous spiritual and metaphysical beliefs behind. Her current work (and Dynamic Emotional Integration) is focused on emotions, empathy, sociology, anthropology, neurology, and the neurodiversity paradigm. If you would like to learn more, her 2025 book, Missing the Solstice, chronicles her transition, while KarlaMcLaren.com focuses on her current work.

Thank you for your interest in bringing more emotional awareness and healthy empathy to our waiting world.