Mission

The Paul Ekman Group seeks to enhance emotional awareness. Building on decades of research, we offer resources to build competency in evaluating truthfulness, improving emotional life and compassionate connection. PEG provides training which facilitates effective communication in professional and personal relationships.

Our Guiding Principles

• We believe that effective communication skills are the most important skills in life.
• Our training is evidence-based, leavened by real life experience. We err on the side of under- rather than over-representing the benefits.
• We seek to maximize usage of our trainings and workshops rather than focusing solely on maximizing profit. We undertake relevant pro bono work. Our training tools are made available to accredited researchers at no cost on a case-by-case basis.
• We believe research should have practical application. We offer our training to:
• National Security and law enforcement
• Health and social welfare institutions
• Educational settings
• Corporate settings
• The general public, families, students, and researchers
• We will never conduct evaluations of individuals running for or currently in public office, or in litigation.

History

Dr. Paul Ekman founded the Paul Ekman Group (PEG) when he retired from University of California-San Francisco, where he was a professor for nearly forty years. He wanted to translate his research findings into practical tools that would equip anyone to lead a more skillful emotional life, and to enable those in law enforcement to more accurately evaluate truthfulness. His emotional skills training tools have been used by governments, security organizations, teachers, therapists, physicians, salespeople, nurses, doctors, and corporate executives all over the world. Ekman has personally conducted workshops for the FBI, the CIA, the US Department of Defense, the Counter-Intelligence School, and  the New York Police Department. PEG provides a range of quality-assured Paul Ekman Workshops through Paul Ekman International (PEI) and its network of Licensed Delivery Centers around the globe, making his work more accessible to businesses and individuals. PEG continues to develop online interactive training tools; RE3 (Responding Effectively to Emotional Expressions) and CAP (Charting your Anger Profile) will be available soon.