Take a tip or technique and using large and colorful type, put it on a page by itself: “I’m here to get it right, not to be right Of key phrases such as one would find on social media. The text on high quality paper is interspersed with color photos, cartoons, and enlarged quotations Readers are all the richer for it.įinally, Atlas is an art book. What falls out of this complex and interesting, though not entirely transparent process, are emotions, emotional triggers, emotional consequences, experiences, lots of experiences, and, well – an atlas of the heart. This input was anonymized, color coded, aggregated, filtered, subjected to expert selection as to which emotions and emotion-related experiences were significant in promoting “healing.” The terms were then defined using 1500 academic publications. Second, the Atlas is a research report on what might be described as “crowd sourcing” (my term, not Brown’s) what emotions were important to some 66,625 persons in Brené Brown’s massive online classes in 2013/14.Ĭomments and narratives were solicited from the participants. They also get expanded power in contributing to building meaningful connections and community. People who are able to name their emotions and feeling experience expanded power in getting what they want and need from other people. This inquiry is engaged in order to build connections and community. It is a psychology “how to” book filled with tips and techniques about how to identify and name emotions, feelings, affects, and their triggers and consequences. Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience. Home › communicability of affect › A Rumor of Empathy in Brené Brown’s Atlas of the Heart (Reviewed)Ī Rumor of Empathy in Brené Brown’s Atlas of the Heart (Reviewed)

The atlas of the heart