428 Part 1 - Most of us are so caught up in our emotions that we ignore their evolutionary survival significance and their vital role in amplifying our experience and propelling us into action. This workshop will explore ways of understanding states like anger, boredom, emptiness, depression, avoidance, and aggression in a different light, and demonstrate how to change our relationship to them. Using a neurobiological and evolutionary perspective, the session will demonstrate how clients can learn to regulate and surmount many of the emotional patterns in their relationships. Central to this approach is a method of creating a bank of "core values"--an inner store of positive experiences and deeply held moral and spiritual convictions--that allows us to respond to stress, and even provocation, with empathy and compassion instead of primitively programmed behavior. (This session will continue in Workshop 528.)