Start with what is actually happening
Identify the emotional or body-level response that is present now rather than getting lost in theory about what should be happening.
Emotional First Aid · Facilitation · Coaching
Matthew Haussmann
Practical emotional skills, disciplined practice and human connection — brought together by someone who values learning through experience, not theory alone.
Online · Emotional First Aid facilitator · Peak States student
About Matthew
A facilitator who values practice, resilience and real-world change.
Matthew is part of the Emotional First Aid team, helping people learn and practise experiential emotional skills in a structured, supportive setting.
He is also a Level 1 student with the Institute for the Study of Peak States, continuing to study approaches that explore emotional and somatic patterns through guided experiential work.
Outside facilitation, Matthew boxes — a discipline built around repetition, awareness, composure and learning how to stay present when pressure rises.
That same practical orientation shapes how he approaches coaching and Emotional First Aid: learn the skill, practise it, notice what changes, and keep refining.
How Matthew works
Less performance. More practice.
Work with a repeatable process
Use structured experiential tools with enough guidance, pacing and repetition to make the process understandable and usable.
Build skills you can reach for later
The point is not a perfect workshop moment. It is greater access to useful skills when ordinary life becomes difficult.
Areas of work
Where Matthew contributes.
Emotional First Aid
Facilitating introductions and workshops that teach practical emotional-resolution and self-support skills through guided experience.
Peak States study
Continuing Level 1 study with the Institute for the Study of Peak States and bringing that learning into an ongoing practice of facilitation and personal development.
Coaching & conversation
Helping people slow down, identify what is actually stuck, and work toward a useful next step rather than remaining in analysis alone.
Discipline & resilience
Drawing on the mindset of training and boxing: stay present, learn from feedback, practise deliberately and build capacity over time.
Emotional First Aid
Learn something you can actually practise.
Free Introduction
Meet the team, learn how Emotional First Aid is structured, try a guided exercise and decide what is useful for you.
Explore the introduction →Foundations Workshop
Learn and practise the core Emotional First Aid toolkit over a two-day experiential workshop.
Explore the workshop →Ongoing support
Ask about practice sessions, future workshops and other Emotional First Aid experiences.
Contact Matthew →“Understanding is useful. Practice is what makes a skill available when life gets real.”
Start a conversation
Curious whether this work fits what you're dealing with?
Send Matthew a note, or start with a free Emotional First Aid introduction and experience the approach for yourself.
Emotional First Aid is experiential education and personal practice. It is not medical treatment, psychotherapy, diagnosis, or emergency/crisis care.