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The Emotional Skills Nobody Taught You at Work is a four part monthly training series for working women. Most of us were taught how to be professional, productive, and pleasant, but never taught what to do with what we actually feel on the job. Across four live sessions, you will build real, practical skills for understanding your emotions, staying composed under pressure, setting boundaries, and moving forward from what you have been carrying.
Working women in any season, especially those moving through change, loss, or a demanding chapter.
You were taught math, history, and how to be professional. You were never taught what an emotion is or what to do when one will not leave. This first session builds the foundation. What emotions actually are, why so many women were never taught to understand them, and how to start reading your own with clarity instead of confusion.
You have held back tears in a meeting. You have gone quiet when you meant to speak. You have replayed a hard conversation for days. Your emotions come to work whether you invite them or not. This session is about staying composed and clear in high pressure moments, without shutting down or disconnecting from yourself to get through the day.
You fix it before anyone asks. You read the mood of every room and adjust to it. You say yes when you mean no and call it being supportive. Carrying everyone else has a real cost, and you have been paying it. This session is about the difference between empathy and emotional absorption, and how to stop the second one without losing the first.
You pushed through. You kept going. You held it together because someone had to. But it is still there. The grief you had no time for, the anger you swallowed, the disappointment you called a lesson before you were ready. This final session is about the things you have carried too long, and how to move forward from them for real rather than pushing them down again.
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Founder & CEO of WomELLE
Naghilia Desravines is the creator and lead trainer of Bloom, WomELLE’s emotional support and workforce readiness experience for women navigating pressure, transition, and responsibility. She facilitates guided group sessions that help women unpack emotional load, clarify decisions, and rebuild stability in both life and work.