Professional Development for Educators and Academics

Discover Dr. Ekman’s transformative trainings and workshops

Micro Expressions, Emotions and Deception Trainings

Micro facial expressions are involuntary nonverbal signals that expose a person’s true feelings, but only for a brief moment. Learning to read micro expressions increases your awareness of deception and the emotional world of others, a skill that helps you better attend to the needs of students, parents, caregivers, and colleagues.

Dr. Ekman’s online Micro Expressions Training Tools and live workshops are a cornerstone of professional development for educators, teachers, academics, researchers, special education instructors, and school counselors.

Online Trainings

Live Workshops

What’s in it for you

Select your field to discover benefits, applications, and resources.

Benefits and Applications

Tailor your lesson plans to include more engaging material based on students’ emotional responses
Identify instances of emotional suppression or deceptive behavior, inviting inquiry into students’ experience and motivations
Monitor students’ social-emotional learning progress and identify any areas of challenge or need for intervention
Collect observations of students’ emotional engagement and wellbeing to provide meaningful updates for parents and guardians
Model greater emotional awareness and empathy for students and peers alike

Recommended Resources

Face Basics

Online training to learn the fundamentals of spotting micro and subtle expressions.
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Atlas of Emotions

Free interactive resource to identify and describe emotions and their triggers.
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Parent's Guide to Inside Out

Free online guide to help spark conversation and understanding about how we experience emotions.
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Benefits and Applications

Appropriate for use in both laboratory research and classroom settings
Connect observable emotional responses and nonverbal communication theories with concrete, quantifiable data
Gain inspiration and content for creating your own research projects around emotions
Universally applicable, relevant across differences in language and culture

Recommended Resources

Face Advanced

Online training tools to increase expertise in reading micro expressions with an expanded collection of faces and perspectives.
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Facial Action Coding System (FACS)

A comprehensive, anatomically based system often used in research for coding facial movement.
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Photographs

Collection of photograph sets representing emotional expressions.
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Benefits and Applications

Help students learn the communicative value of nonverbal information
Assist students with identifying their own emotions and the emotions of others by identifying key features of facial movement
Practice appropriate responses to emotions evoked in everyday scenarios
Increase sensitivity to students’ emotional triggers and subtle reactions for earlier, more attuned interventions
Provide qualitative and quantitative feedback to parents and caregivers
Gain skills to help prevent burnout and support your own emotional balance

Recommended Resources

Ekman Library

Complete collection of online training tools to help read micro and subtle expressions plus tools to help you respond to the emotions you detect in other people.
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Emotional Skills and Competencies

Two day virtual or in-person workshop to recognize and manage your own emotions, improve your ability to identify emotions in others, and develop powerful strategies for building productive relationships.
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Cultivating Emotional Balance

Online and in-person course combining wisdom traditions, contemplative sciences, modern psychology, and scientific emotion research to help you balance your emotional life and find greater joy.
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Benefits and Applications

Tailor your lesson plans to include more engaging material based on students’ emotional responses
Identify instances of emotional suppression or deceptive behavior, inviting inquiry into students’ experience and motivations
Monitor students’ social-emotional learning progress and identify any areas of challenge or need for intervention
Collect observations of students’ emotional engagement and wellbeing to provide meaningful updates for parents and guardians
Model greater emotional awareness and empathy for students and peers alike

Recommended Resources

Face Basics

Online training to learn the fundamentals of spotting micro and subtle expressions.
➔

Atlas of Emotions

Free interactive resource to identify and describe emotions and their triggers.
➔

Parent's Guide to Inside Out

Free online guide to help spark conversation and understanding about how we experience emotions.
➔

Benefits and Applications

Appropriate for use in both laboratory research and classroom settings
Connect observable emotional responses and nonverbal communication theories with concrete, quantifiable data
Gain inspiration and content for creating your own research projects around emotions
Universally applicable, relevant across differences in language and culture

Recommended Resources

Face Advanced

Online training tools to increase expertise in reading micro expressions with an expanded collection of faces and perspectives.
➔

FACS Manual

A comprehensive, anatomically based system often used in research for coding facial movement.
➔

Photographs

Collection of photograph sets representing emotional expressions.
➔

Benefits and Applications

Help students learn the communicative value of nonverbal information
Assist students with identifying their own emotions and the emotions of others by identifying key features of facial movement
Practice appropriate responses to emotions evoked in everyday scenarios
Increase sensitivity to students’ emotional triggers and subtle reactions for earlier, more attuned interventions
Provide qualitative and quantitative feedback to parents and caregivers
Gain skills to help prevent burnout and support your own emotional balance

Recommended Resources

Ekman Library

Complete collection of online training tools to help read micro and subtle expressions plus tools to help you respond to the emotions you detect in other people.
➔

Emotional Skills and Competencies

Two day virtual or in-person workshop to recognize and manage your own emotions, improve your ability to identify emotions in others, and develop powerful strategies for building productive relationships.
➔

Cultivating Emotional Balance

Online and in-person course combining wisdom traditions, contemplative sciences, modern psychology, and scientific emotion research to help you balance your emotional life and find greater joy.
➔

Bulk purchases for classroom use and department-wide training is now available! Get in touch with a Paul Ekman Group associate today.

What other educators and academics are saying

"I teach classes, and it is critical to see what is happening in their heads. This training helped me see a whole new level of communication coming from my classes. Thank you!"

What other educators and academics are saying

"I use this for my personal education as well as for my work as an occupational therapist to help kids on the autism spectrum…Understanding emotions are one of the foundational components of social cognition and communication. Using Face Basics is useful for expanding these kids' skill sets with best version of isolated facial expressions I've found!”

What other educators and academics are saying

"This training is a must-have and should be taught more generally to university students."

What other educators and academics are saying

"Super powerful tools to use and learn from. I have a better understanding of myself and others from this—to spot people's real emotions and to understand my own from being mindful of the expressions."