Emotional literacy helps you notice, name, and understand feelings. This provides critical information about you (and about others), which gives you insight into the core drivers of behavior. This understanding is also key to managing your reactions.
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Make sense of emotions with this interactive feelings wheel. Robert Plutchik’s wheel of emotions explained – guide & free download
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In the chaos of contemporary life, how do we maintain connection to self and others? Two of the world’s preeminent experts on emotional intelligence, Daniel Goleman and Joshua Freedman, discuss in an engaging Q&A.
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Education is stressed. Teachers, administrators, kids, parents are struggling – so why should we focus on social emotional learning (SEL) at a time like this? And for remote or hybrid teaching, is it even possible?
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It’s time for POP-UP Festival in partnership with UNICEF World Children’s Day! While we’ll need to adapt to the challenges of 2020, THIS is the moment for this project: Children around the globe are struggling with loneliness and uncertainty. We can help.
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Can we measure and increase Employee Engagement in an economic challenge? What’s the benefit? Case study at Komatsu plant using “Vital Signs” and “Emotional Intelligence”: engagement increased from 33 to 70%. At the same time, plant performance increased by 9.4%.
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You know emotional intelligence is useful… but HOW do you actually use it on a daily basis?
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We’re in this highly volatile, lonely, stressful context… for many families school is starting and jobs are changing: How do we parent now?
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What’s the importance of honoring the complexity and fullness of emotions especially experienced by BIPOC in the wake of racial bias?
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Ideally, coaching is a transformational process, building internal capacity to create change in the world. Coaching is more than “conversations,” and different than “mentoring” and “training” because it’s a partnership for growth. In this vision, coaching manifests a new form of “power with,” and couldn’t that help us build a better world?
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What do emotions mean and how can we use them better? Check out this playful and provocative livestream asking anything about feelings!
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Join Jenny Rogers (author of Coaching Skills), Ann Rindone (VP at ICF), Natalie Roitman (coauthor of The EQ Gym) and Josh Freedman (author of At the Heart of Leadership) in a deep dive to the heart of coaching.
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What’s the connection between wellbeing and racism? Can the skills and practices of emotional intelligence support us to build ourselves, our communities, and our world toward wellbeing for everyone?
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Is education the path to a just and equitable society, or part of systematized racism – or both? If all change starts within, then how can we grow the emotional intelligence skills needed to shift the systems and build communities of equity?
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Why do educators need social emotional learning? SEL in Higher education is essential for students, but how can we teach what we don’t know? What are the essential skills aspiring educators must develop in order to be effective at the “people side” of education?
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For equity in college and higher education, what social emotional learning skills are needed? What will support the dialogue, awareness & empathy needed to build communities of equity?
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Why is social emotional learning taking center stage at colleges and universities around the globe? How can SEL play a role in building communities of equity? How are teacher colleges bringing SEL into their programs?
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People interested in EQ know that emotional intelligence is essential for leadership — but how, exactly, are they linked? We’ll unveil new research showing, for the first time, how specific EQ skills and leadership capabilities are linked… revealing a path to grow stronger leadership that WORKS in the current times.
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2020 is a time of upheaval as we grapple with CV19, racism, climate instability, polarization, increasing issues with mental health… and as parents of young adults, many of us feel like we’ve failed to leave them a better world. So what do we do?
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What are the social and emotional resources we ALL need to courageously step into difficult conversations about race, identity, and the world we want to co-create? What would it mean to have a truly mentally HEALTHY world?
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In the months of sheltering in place and the current climate surrounding racial injustice, many have turned to art for solace and inspiration. Lin-Manuel Miranda said, “Sometimes it’s easier to lean on art, than to lean on people.” From graphics to engage in uprising to escaping into Netflix to rediscovering poems of Rumi to dancing and spoken word to teach us what it might mean to live in freedom and justice.
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The dialogue touched on difficult topics and big feelings — and our shared commitment to learn to have this kind of conversation… and the power of emotional intelligence as a toolset to build a more aware, intentional, and connected response.
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Between the pandemic and antiracist uprising, education is in a deep challenge. Educators, children, parents are suffering. Can emotional intelligence help? How? We’re joined by some of the world’s top experts on these topics for an honest and uplifting look at the emotional world of education in 2020
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In two inspiring, interactive, authentic conversations, we’ll get to the essential basic for mental wellbeing: Talking about feelings.
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A powerful conversation on how the tools and methods of coaching can help ALL of us right now
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What if “normal” was the problem? Rather than reacting to the current difficulties and trying to “go back,” how can we engage emotional intelligence to envision the future we actually want? What are the essential skills for shifting out of re-acting and into re-imagining — from retreat to advance?
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Research: How do people start learning emotional intelligence… and what happens? A powerful story emerges about transformation to fuel authentic, purposeful connection.
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As we’re working to create economic vitality, we need also to re-invigorate the “people-side” as well. EQ provides a structure to do this in way that’s both practical and scientific.
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The chemicals of emotion affect every living cell in our bodies – but they are quickly recycled – guess how long? Well… we’re called Six Seconds for a reason!
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When Six Seconds adopted the vision to reach a billion people by 2039, we faced some challenging choices. Here’s how we made the decision, and what’s happened as a result.
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How do we bridge the gap between childhood and the workforce? How can Higher Ed use EQ to improve outcomes? EQ.EDU Moving SEL into Higher Ed conference explores these topics.
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What makes personal and executive coaching work best? We interviewed five coaches from around the world, here are their essential recommendations.
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When children are experiencing “big emotions,” a principal finds that a simple process for emotional intelligence makes all the difference.
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What makes a powerful question? Teachers, coaches, parents who want to generate deeper thinking need to know these three levels – with video.
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Collaboration has emerged as a critical “doorway” to positive outcomes in healthcare, but without emotional intelligence it’s nearly impossible to change from the old model — a little neuroscience shows why.
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by Lorenzo Fariselli, Joshua Freedman, Massimiliano Ghini MBA, Federica Valentini Publication Date: Feb 25, 2008 A press release and a powerpoint are available to accompany this paper, as well as a PDF version. Abstract As in many fields, healthcare is a complex and stressful environment where interpersonal interactions are of paramount importance. This study finds that in […]
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A sociogram is a useful tool for educators who want objective data on a classroom’s social dynamics – here’s how they work.
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The neuroscience of empathy is fascinating and offers practical lessons for leadership and life. Our brains are wired for social connection through Mirror Neurons, which cause us to experience what we perceive.
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