Summer of Self-Knowing

Navigating Anger

Healing with Dreams

Feeling(s) Positive
Many people were never taught how emotions actually work.
So we:
-Contain anger until it explodes-
-Stay stuck in emotional loops-
-Ignore powerful messages from dreams-
-Struggle to access joy, confidence, love, or calm-
-Feel lost, adrift, aimless-
What if you could use these patterns as doorways to deeper self-knowing and real self-love cultivation?
Join us for three intensives dedicated to nuanced self-knowing, top-tier frameworks, journaling, group dialogue, and expert guidance.
Register for one or all of our summer day-long intensives.

Navigating Anger
When Anger Helps—and When It Hurts
June 13, 2026
10am-4pm CST | 5pm-11pm CEST
Did you know anger serves different purposes, depending on your needs, the people involved, and the developmental stage of life you are in?
Dr. Tataryn and team will share with you what’s going on in the body when anger arises, the role of accidental conditioned history in anger, and how to use it to set healthy boundaries, not make problems worse.
Discover:
- when anger becomes a coping mechanism
- how to find the gift of anger’s hidden feelings
- how to express anger cleanly and powerfully
- how to stop reacting and start responding
Perfect for people dealing with conflict, resentment, shutdown, or emotional reactivity.

Healing with Dreams
Cut strait to the core
July 12, 2026
10am-4pm CST | 5pm-11pm CEST
Dream Analysis can take you to the places the conscious mind avoids. They help us find the root causes stress, confusion, or repeating patterns, more directly than thinking about it.
Join Dr. Tataryn as he outlines his preferred methods of dream analysis and how the dreaming is a direct expression of the limbic system.
Discover:
- practical dreamwork tools
- different approaches to dreamwork
- how dreams are a fast-track to emotional clearing
- the meaning of one dream of your choosing
Perfect for self-reflective people who want faster emotional clarity.


Feeling(s) Positive
Feeling good beyond mindset hacks
August 8, 2026
10am-4pm CST | 5pm-11pm CEST
Experts often teach positive mindsets, but rarely do they really understand the nuance of how to wire the emotional system to authentically FEEL positive.
Dr. Tataryn will share what he’s discovered about finding (or creating) a healthy vision for your life and how that vision will help shape your ability to embrace positive feelings as you process the negative ones.
Discover:
- why positive feelings actually feel unsafe to most people
- why every person swings between emotional opposites
- which feelings your developmental stage allows you to embrace and asks you to reject
Perfect for people who are struggling with confidence or repeating emotional patterns.
Register for one or all of the summer day-long intensives.
Meet Your Guide

Dr. Douglas J. Tataryn
The Creator of the Bio-Emotive Framework, Dr. Tataryn’s papers in psychology continue to be some of the most referred to in the field.
Dr. Tataryn left academia and statistical analysis to pursue a career in Clinical Psychology and discovered that all people appear to be wired to experience the same nine-core feelings.
He facilitates with humor, care, and a inquisitive exploration.

Ali Tataryn
Doug’s daughter and the head facilitator at the Bio-Emotive Framework.
Ali carries forward the legacy of her parents Drs. Douglas and Darlene Tataryn, as she lives her life committed to providing pathways for people who are seeking radical emotional shifts, through supportive and gentle means. Learn more about Ali at alitataryn.com

A Message from Doug
My hope for those who are learning emotional processing and the Bio-Emotive Framework, is that it helps you on your journey to clear the unnecessary suffering from your life… and gives you some tools to handle the necessary developmental suffering, with a bit more finesse.











