Learn what a trigger point is and how repeated situations can programme automatic emotional reactions. Understanding this helps you spot patterns rather than feeling caught off guard.
Emotional Trigger Points
Find & Manage Yours
ABOUT THIS COURSE
This course explores why certain situations can instantly provoke strong emotional reactions and how these reactions are created by patterns stored in the mind. Professor Steve Peters explains what trigger points are, why they form, and how stress, beliefs, and chimp drives combine to create automatic responses that can feel difficult to control.
Using clear examples and practical explanations, Steve shows how to recognise your own trigger points and begin managing them more effectively in everyday situations.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
These short, practical sessions help you understand why trigger points happen and how to manage them in a way that works with your mind, not against it.
Explore four common trigger points, including criticism, specific individuals, frustration with others, and situations not going as expected. These examples show how beliefs and chimp drives create strong reactions.
Understand how stress affects the brain, increases chimp activity, and makes trigger points more likely. Learn why being in a good place mentally and physically reduces emotional reactivity.
Identify how unhelpful beliefs and challenged chimp drives sit behind many trigger points. Learn how adjusting these beliefs can reduce emotional reactions over time.
Learn how to replace unhelpful responses with clear plans and rehearsed behaviours. This helps your mind respond differently when trigger points appear.
Understand what to do when trigger points don’t disappear straight away. Learn practical approaches including avoidance, expression, perspective, and self-compassion.
Meet Professor Steve Peters
Professor Steve Peters is a consultant psychiatrist, bestselling author, and creator of The Chimp® Model. For more than 40 years, he has helped people understand their mind and improve their psychological wellbeing, working across NHS mental health services, education, and elite sport — including British Cycling, Liverpool FC, England Football, and Team GB.
He is the author of several bestselling books, including The Chimp Paradox and A Path Through the Jungle, and continues to teach simplified neuroscience to help people manage their emotions, thinking, and behaviour.
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