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News and articles about Six Seconds, The Emotional Intelligence Network, including research, upcoming events, and updates from our members.

Illuminate: Getting Out of Your Head + Into Your Body

Do you know the difference between feeling hungry and feeling anxious? Four ideas for increasing your brain-body connection.

Illuminate: Maybe You Should Change What You Wear?

Would wearing a doctor’s clothes really make you more attentive? Read on for one intriguing research study + a fun tip for boosting your emotional intelligence practice.

Research: What Separates the Top Decision Makers?

New decision making research from Six Seconds’ State of the Heart report identifies the emotional intelligence skills and strategies that predict good decision making, all over the world. So what are they, and how can you cultivate them?

Decision Making: Using EQ to Make Better Decisions

Six Seconds’ State of the Heart report identifies the 3 components of emotional intelligence that predict good decision making. Here is the story of three EQ practitioners who have struggled, and succeeded, to cultivate each one.

Illuminate: Fiery Social Situation? Here’s How to Step In

I am not completely satisfied with how I handle uncomfortable social situations. If you agree, join me in taking a moment to dive into how you can navigate and transform your own behavior and thought patterns.

Shifting Your Perspective: 3 Ways to Make Better Decisions with Emotional Intelligence

Based on some fascinating psychology research, here are 3 effective tactics you should try out to make better decisions.

Keeping Emotions Out of It Is Actually a Disaster

Making good decisions comes down to “being rational” and “keeping emotions out of it,” right? Actually, no. According to the latest neuroscience research, it’s time do away with this outdated mode of thinking and adopt a more wholesome, accurate view on emotions and decision making.

What Your Brain Style Says About Decision-Making

Did you know that your brain style may be affecting your decision making? Find out your brain style + see how it may be impacting your ability to make great decisions.

Need Help Making a Decision? Try Mixed Emotions Cards

Have you ever had really mixed feelings about a decision or a choice you have to make? It can paralyze the decision making process and cause us to waffle endlessly back and forth. The Mixed Emotions card deck embraces the complexity of emotions and turns them into an asset for decision making.

Three Steps to Identifying Your Goals + Obstacles

The only person who has the responsibility to prioritize you IS you. Take a mindful moment to build self-awareness, set your goals, and Choose Yourself.

Illuminate: What Decision Do You Need to Make Today?

A simple tool for making more intentional decisions

EQ Insights for Building Community

Community is about people. It’s both the feelings we have with our group, and relationships we share through activities, beliefs, & common purpose.

Illuminate: 3 steps to easy + effective journaling

Learn three quick and effective steps to wise journaling. For amateur and seasoned journalers alike, this skill will provide insight into your behavioral and emotional patterns.

The Life or Death Science of Community

Relationships are the bedrock, the foundation, of a long and satisfying life. And according to a growing body of research, building community is quite literally a matter of life and death. So what helps us build community?

EQCON Power Up!

EQCON 2018 burst onto the scene to energize and amplify the North American Six Seconds Network. Video highlights from the conference.

Creating Connection in Higher Education

Higher Education environments can be stressful and isolating for students, faculty, staff, and administration. What would it take to change that? What if we could design environments within higher education that supported the values of inclusion, collaboration, and resilience?

5 Surprising Ways Emotions Spread

Emotions are contagious, spreading between people seamlessly and often, unconsciously. Based on the latest research, here are 5 surprising ways emotions spread.

Seeing Through a Lens of Possibility: Connecting Teenagers with Emotionally Intelligent Role Models

Lithuania is the least optimistic and empathetic country in Europe, according to research. This is the story of one woman’s mission to change the emotional climate, and of her most recent success story – helping connect teenagers with emotionally intelligent role models.

Lessons from Patagonia

What lessons can we learn from a pioneering company to build community and good business? Here are six insights from Patagonia’s journey to create alignment and commitment to a shared purpose.

How Your Attachment Style Affects Your Relationship

Learning your attachment style might completely change how you (and your partner) fight, play, and build a relationship.

What Are They Thinking: EQ Tool for Conflicts

Want help to solve a conflict? You need to get to the root of the problem, which is the disparity between the two sides’ perceptions of what’s happening. This tool helps you do exactly that.

Reaching Across the Divide In an Uber Polarized World

The other day, I heard a girl on the street say, “I saw a guy with a Trump shirt on, and I literally crossed the street.” It seems she’s not the only one, as division has reached all time highs. This is the story of one man’s journey to start reaching across the divide – and how we can do the same.

8 Practical EQ Tips for Moving Collaborations Forward

Feeling stuck in your collaboration? Here are 8 tips for harnessing your emotions to create your ideal collaborative outcome.

Gesundheit! The Surprising Case of Emotional Contagion

Humans are highly sensitive to emotional signals in the environment. People tend to catch others’ emotions – an effect known as emotional contagion. And to be able to navigate this world successfully, it’s helpful to understand how it all works.

How to Practice Emotional Intelligence: Tips for Choice (updated for 2018)

Want to know how to practice emotional intelligence? Here are 10 expert tips from our worldwide network to choose yourself more effectively.

Four Steps to A More Intentional Life

A life coach shares her approach to practicing a life full of vision, meaning, and treasure hunts.

Olympic-Level Failure

Learning can be an awkward, even painful, process of repeated failure. What can an Olympic-level failure teach us?

An (Emotionally Intelligent) Love Story

This Valentine’s Day, I am two-weeks post-surgery. No fancy dinners or moonlit walks on the beach for me. But don’t worry, I am still being extravagantly loved in the most emotionally intelligent way.

Noble Goals and Little Miracles in Guatemala

The little miracles of life happen all around us, and the more time we take to notice and appreciate them, the richer we feel.

Want a Hands-On Tool to Practice EQ? Try T, F, A Cards

Assess a recent decision. Become more self-aware. Solve a conflict. T, F, A Cards are a simple and effective tool – check out these stories!

Envisioning Success: The Power of Mental Practice

What does the latest research show us about “mental practice”? It turns out, we underestimate the value of mental practice, and it’s time that we start taking advantage of its incredible power in multiple areas of our lives, from learning new skills to healing from surgery.

New Research on Coaching with EQ: Insight & Purpose

A new journal article articulates the role of emotional intelligence in coaching. The link is powerful.

Six Seconds: A Community of Practice Unlike Any Other

Six Seconds is a unique community of practice. Global, diverse, and dedicated to helping people put the science of EQ into action.

First Nations Youth Finding Wellbeing with Emotion, Spirit, Body & Mind

For teens struggling with a brutal addiction to solvents, hope and healing seem far away. Traditional culture & the Medicine Wheel combine with emotional intelligence to support a path forward for the children, and their counselors.

Home for the Holidays: How to Focus on Wellbeing with Your Family

Being home for the holidays is fun, and can also be difficult. Here is my plan for maximizing the love this holiday season.

Leveraging Talents for Performance: Case Study

Lara Williams of Momentum4 brings us this case study to see how EQ tools in action can deliver positive outcomes to leadership training.

Out of the Darkness: 3 Tips for Dealing with Difficult Emotions

How do we deal with difficult emotions in an emotionally intelligent way? Doing so is essential for your overall wellbeing.

Woman Conquers Cancer, Inspires Others with EQ

Diagnosed with a rare cancer at 34, Valérie Tettinek has used her exceptional optimism to do something amazing: she’s thriving as a cancer survivor.

Hyundai Sets the Pace with Innovative Training

To reach their strategic objectives, Hyundai’s manufacturing team in Turkey identified a key need: Agility requires managers to build their creativity. To build those capabilities, here’s how Hayatın Ritmi, Six Seconds’ Partner in Turkey, is working with the company to leverage the emotional intelligence Brain Talents to set a context for innovation.

Achieving Wellbeing Q4

How do we achieve wellbeing in this era of chaos– for ourselves, our society, or planet?

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