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Working with different emotions has been a core difficulty in social work clinical practice. This workshop aims at exploring and understanding the nature and functions of each of the major categorical emotions, namely anger, sadness, fear, shame and compassion. Anger can be destructive when it is under-regulated while it can be very empowering when it is expressed assertively. Sadness can be overwhelming when we experience losses while it can be soothing if it can be expressed in a goal-directed path. Fear can be survival-threatening to us which makes us run away from, yet it can strengthen our sense of existence if we dare to stay and live with it. Shame is a soul- eating emotion which makes us feel shrinking, but it is the most honest emotion telling us who we are. Apart from exploring different emotions individually, it is even more important to understand how they are intimately intertwined with each other and how they interplay with each other to appear as a complexity of mixed emotions. With the unconditional acceptance and embracing compassion, we can truly be ourselves with all our apparently unpleasant emotions which are in fact friendly guidance of our core needs. With an in-depth understanding of different emotions, we shall be able to choose appropriate intervention strategies and skills to help those suffering from overwhelming or detached emotions. This workshop introduces how to use a process- experiential emotion-focused therapeutic approach to facilitate corrective emotional changes.