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Harnessing Emotional Intelligence: How Sara Canna Supports Employees and Transforms People’s Lives at the World Health Organization (WHO)

Emotional intelligence is more than just a buzzword—it’s a transformative tool that can reshape how we navigate challenges, build relationships, and thrive in demanding environments. Discover how Sara Canna brought EQ to the World Health Organization, empowering employees to manage change, stress, and personal growth.

Emotional Intelligence to Reduce Teacher Burnout: EQ Education News

Is it burnout season? Teachers and parents everywhere are ready for a break. There’s never been a better time to practice emotional intelligence. In this month’s newsletter we explore how emotional intelligence can help with educator burnout. Keep reading for EQ research and resources you can use for you, your faculty and students.

State of the Heart: We’re Facing a Global Human Energy Crisis

New analysis from the world’s largest study of emotional intelligence on the social and emotional aftershocks of the COVID-19 pandemic.

New Research: 4-Day Workweek Improves Employee Wellbeing and Company Revenue

Global pilot program correlated with dramatic improvements in employee’s mental and physical health – and company’s bottom line results.

Emotional Intelligence for Positive Mental Health with 50+ Actions to Feel & Be Better

It’s time to rethink mental health as a resource for thriving, and learn how emotional intelligence can help us create full vitality.

Technology Loneliness: EQ Tips from Daniel Goleman

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.

Meeting the Emotions of the Pandemic: EQ Solutions

After 250 Grow U classes sharing emotional wellbeing with the world, we’re celebrating, sharing what works – and announcing the next steps

Transforming Mental Health:A Just & Thriving Future

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?

The Coronavirus Connection Challenge

Challenge – let’s counter “social distancing” by changing it to “physical distancing… together” & using this time for strengthening connections. Caring emotions are also contagious!

The Surprising Science of Social Connection

The research is clear: strong social connections predict the quantity and quality of our days. So in an era marked by loneliness and superficial connection, how can we build the connections we need to thrive?

POP-UP Movement: Emotional Intelligence Everywhere

POP-UP Festival in partnership with UNICEF World Children’s Day brought EQ to every corner of the world, activated 15k volunteers in 3900 Cities, reaching 1.67 million people.

The Secret to a Long Life?

A recent study found that having a life purpose significantly decreased a person’s risk of dying, even more so than typical health risks like drinking, smoking or not exercising regularly. So what’s your purpose?

Hello Anxiety: 3 EQ Tips to Navigate Worry

Anxiety is a pervasive challenge; learning more about EQ helps to wrangle it back into the background.

Illuminate: What’s Behind Your Mask?

How often do we wear masks? Do we actually spend most (or all) of our lives wearing a protective costume so that we can hide who we really are? Learn about your unique masks in this simple + meaningful activity.

Want a Good Long Life? 1 Clear Answer from Research

“It’s useful to know it’s a choice worth making.” The results from an 80-year-long research study clearly identify what we should focus on for a long and fulfilled life.

Illuminate: The Burn Out, Part I

So often, when we are in a hard place, we just want to get out as quickly as possible. But transforming our muck into meaning takes time, acceptance, and understanding. Here is my story of a recent burn out, and how you, too, can transform your muck.

Illuminate: What’s Your Brain’s Extreme Habit?

A guide to tempering it for better decision making. Dive into your own brain’s extreme preferences + explore some tools for teaching your brain that there is indeed a different way to look at things.

From Destruction to Life: A Case Study

When a child’s behavior devolves toward destruction, how can they find a way back toward health? A powerful story of how emotional intelligence helps.

Practicing Music: Creating Food for the Soul

Do you embrace “practice” in your life? Meet professional musician who’s gives away her practice time to enhance others.

Daniel Goleman on Emotions, Wellbeing & Mindfulness

“Ultimate wellbeing has nothing to do with what’s outside us,” says Daniel Goleman. What would happen if we could fully take charge of our own wellbeing… and what’s the neuroscience that will help make it so?

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.

Increase Wellbeing Practicing Self-Compassion

Be compassionate… not just to others, but starting with yourself.

Achieving Wellbeing Q4

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

3 Tips to Turn Turbulent Emotions into Resources

A deluge of violence and trauma in our headlines leaves me feeling… a thunderstorm. How can emotions fuel wellbeing in the face of this onslaught?

Research Study: School Burnout in Adolescents

They’re unmotivated, cranky, and stressed… What’s going on with youth these days? New research says teens are even more stressed than adults — and burnout is on the rise. Here’s the story, straight from those in the middle of it.

Coaching with Computers? 3 Life-Changing Insights from the Neural Net

For emotional intelligence coaches, a new AI tool is helping them go deeper with clients. Find out how.

20 Outstanding Books on Emotional Intelligence

Here’s a wonderful collection of books about emotional intelligence, including six key concepts for every parent to share with children (and books to do so!)

Stepping Out of the Shadow of Perfect

How can we counter the shadow of perfectionism? Increasing self-compassion and empathy will free us to be our best.

A Curious Case For Boredom

Tired of feeling bored? Finally we can understand the reasons behind the feelings of being trapped, restlessness, lack of challenge, and lack of purpose.

Stressed for Good: Surprising New Science about Stress

Stress kills… or does it? In the light of new neuroscience, maybe it’s time rethink stress – which might just save your life.

Don’t Settle for Happiness: Make Life Worth Living

How do you increase happiness, and is that a useful goal? What do we mean by happiness anyway? Using emotional intelligence we can go from ‘happy’ to ‘thriving.’

Physiology of Emotion, Exercise, and Change

I was recently talking to a group about the fact that we can choose how we feel. “But didn’t you say emotions are an automatic biological response?” Yes, in fact, I did… but don’t we have choice about our biology? I remember years ago interviewing neurobiologist Debra Niehoff about the way some people seemed […]

Addressing 21st Century Issues with Emotional Intelligence: A conversation with Daniel Goleman and The Six Seconds EQ Network

Exercise or Die? Emotional Intelligence and Health

For the past 20 years, my most rigorous exercise has been carrying my laptop around the world. Still, when I went to the doctor for a checkup (finally), I was surprised and dismayed by my blood pressure. [This article was first published 12/21/2005 — the good news: I’ve come to like exercise!] Over the years […]

Physics of Emotion: Candace Pert on Feeling Good

“Emotions are literally changing the chemistry of every cell of your body,” says Dr. Pert, “and affecting the world outside your body.”

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