The event "From love or from fear" held at EEC Alumni, presented by coach and facilitator Mónica Pérez-Zorrilla, was a fascinating presentation on the idea that people do things from two fundamental emotions: love and fear.
Mónica Pérez-Zorrilla, expert in emotional intelligence, coach and facilitator in the programme '.Management and Emotional Awareness'.spoke about how fear is an energy that contracts and blocks us, while love is the energy that expands and heals us. The talk was an invitation to become aware of our ability to choose and how we want to be in the world.
The coach also discussed how fear can lead people to compete, seek recognition and satisfy their ego, while love can help us grow, give meaning to what we do and satisfy transcendent needs.
The relationship between these emotions and the basic needs we all have, as well as mental models and beliefs, was another of the pillars of the exhibition, in which Monica also provided strategies for moving from living in fear to doing so with love.
As an example, the expert shared a coaching relationship with one of her clients who was working on the emotion of shame. It was discussed how her need to please others often got in the way of her challenges and how to assess what her real need was when participating in something.
The talk also addressed the tyranny of the ego and how we often create our self-esteem based on how we think others see us. It reflected on how the judgements and expectations we have of ourselves can limit us and how we can break free from this trap to find a more authentic and lasting self-esteem.
In short, the Alumni workshop "From love or from fear". by Mónica Pérez-Zorrilla was an opportunity to explore how our emotions and needs influence our actions and how we can become aware of these influences in order to make more conscious and authentic decisions.
Finally, participants shared some of their own strategies for coping with fear, for connecting with love: from making a parody of themselves, thinking about what they want to leave as a legacy, smiling and telling themselves that nothing is wrong, leaving a post it with the message and what....
