Workshops
In addition to online training, Humintell offers live instructor led workshops for organizations that can be tailored to fit the unique needs of your group. Workshops focus on training participants to read emotions in others as well as to recognize their own emotional state. We also train groups how to read nonverbal behaviors, including how to evaluate truthfulness and identify signals of deadly intent.
Humintell does not offer workshops on an individual basis. However, they offer webinars to the general public which are abbreviated versions of our instructor led workshops.
*For more information regarding our workshops for groups, please contact Humintell
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“Humintell’s instructors were very engaging and interactive. They made the learning fun and intriguing”
-Christie Bergia, Key Bank, Ohio
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Evaluating Truthfulness
The ability to evaluate truthfulness and assess credibility is a crucial skill for many professionals whose jobs require interviews, interrogations, and information collection and reaction elicitation of others. The workshop covers topics including why people lie and why some lies succeed and others fail. We introduce participants to different techniques for perpetrating lies. We also compare accurate evaluations of demeanor with physiological measures. Participants improve their individual abilities to make such judgments by focusing on the world of nonverbal behaviors evaluated in context against verbal output. Finally, we guide participants through a hypothesis-testing approach at thinking critically about how such evaluations are made as well as learning the scientific bases of some aspects of nonverbal clues to deceit.
Participants learn how to:
- Improve skills in reading emotions and other nonverbal behaviors
- Improve their ability to spot clues to potential deception via nonverbal behaviors. Participants learn which nonverbal behaviors have been scientifically proven to be associated with truthfulness and deception and which have not (yet remain as stereotypic myths about clues to deceit)
We provide participants an in-depth understanding of the nature and function of emotion and cognition when telling lies and truth. Participants learn how lies “leak out” – primarily through the face and involuntary microexpressions – and how to detect these signs of leakage through multiple channels of nonverbal behaviors. The workshop includes in-depth video review and practice of live lies and truth telling, discussions, role-play and simulations of how to use these skills in contexts relevant to the participants.
Reading Nonverbal Behavior
When people focus solely on verbal communication, we have found that they miss the vast bulk of the information provided by posture, gesture, facial expression, gaze direction and gait – all expressions of nonverbal behaviors. This workshop improves participant’s understanding of nonverbal behavior by helping them identify and understand the various channels of nonverbal behaviors and their functions. Participants develop their ability to recognize signs of emotion as well as what psychologists call illustrators, manipulators, emblems and conversation regulators.
Participants learn how to:
- Improve their knowledge about illustrators, manipulators, regulators, emblems and emotional signals in multiple channels including the face, voice, posture and gesture
- Identify and understand nonverbal behaviors in everyday situations
We train participants on the nature and function of nonverbal behavior using real-life examples. Since emotions and facial expressions are a major part of the world of nonverbal behavior, this workshop incorporates content from the Reading Emotions in Others workshop.
Reading Emotions in Others
Our research has shown that the facial expressions associated with certain emotions are universal – they are expressed in the same way regardless of race, culture, ethnicity, gender, age or religion. The Reading Emotions in
Others workshop trains participants to read three (3) types of facial expressions:
- Macroexpressions – those that occur spontaneously when individuals have no reason to manage or modify their expression;
- Microexpressions – those that occur when individuals conceal or repress emotion, and;
- Subtle expressions
Participants learn how to:
- Improve their understanding of emotions and be able to distinguish emotions from moods
- Understand which aspects of emotion are universal versus which are specific to each culture, ethnic or language group
- Understand how to use recognition of facial expressions – especially microexpressions – to understand what a person is likely to do next
- Improve their ability to recognize the macro-, micro- and subtle facial expressions of emotion
We work with participants to develop an in-depth understanding of the nature and function of emotion and facial expressions – including their scientific evidentiary basis – using the Microexpression Recognition (MiX) and Subtle Expression (SubX) training. During the workshop we will use context specific video, practice of live emotions, discussion and role play and other simulations to reinforce what participants have learned and to give them real-life examples of how to use their new skills.
Identifying Signals of Deadly Intent
Many individuals are exposed to potential violence or assault in their professional lives. Our most recent studies have allowed for the identification of facial expressions that have been reliably associated with imminent attack or physical assault. This course aids trainees in quickly identifying the nonverbal cues associated with imminent attack, allowing for a few seconds extra time for defensive or evasive courses of action.
Participants learn how to:
- Understand the basics of emotion and the scientific basis of facial expressions of emotion
- Improve their ability to identify these expressions quickly and to differentiate them from other similar signals that are distracters.
Understanding One’s Own Emotions
Participants learn what triggers their own emotions and receive training and practice on how to better regulate their reactions when emotions are triggered. We discuss which aspects of emotional processes can be changed and which cannot – empowering participants to focus on those aspects that can be changed.
Participants learn how to:
- Improve their knowledge of emotions and increase their awareness of their own emotional state
- Improve their ability to make critical decisions through enhanced ability to regulate emotions
- Conduct self-scans and identify the internal cues associated with emotions
- Be better prepared to identify situations and events that are likely to elicit emotions
We provide instruction on the nature and function of emotion and the process of emotional arousal. Participants plot their own emotional profiles as well the profile of someone they would like to understand better. We also cover in-depth work on identification of emotional triggers, self-scans, and techniques for more quickly identifying emotional arousal.
Statement Analysis
There are a number of behavioral clues to deceit in the nonverbal and verbal behavior of individuals. While most of our training focuses on nonverbal behavior analysis, another class of clues relies upon the naturalistic peculiarities of human memory for events. Because of the way events are encoded into memory and because of the ways in which people use language to recall memories, verbal statements can be analyzed in a systematic fashion, and interpretations can be made about the probable veracity or deception in them. Most importantly, verbal statements can be analyzed to identify meaningful content areas where “there is more to the story than is being told”. Humintell has partnered with current and former law enforcement agents who are experts in statement analysis, who has used it on the job to analyze thousands of statements, and who have taught many other law enforcement officers how to conduct statement analysis.
Participants learn how to:
- Understand the scientific principles of statement analysis and have a better understanding of human memory and language
- Know the scientifically validated markers of credibility
- See how statement analysis can be leveraged in interactions to further ascertain whether accounts for events are credible through observation of video and transcript analysis
- Practice and hone their own skills at conducting statement analysis on new examples
*For more information regarding our workshops for groups, please contact Humintell
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