…. Be disciplined with yourself–do not use your day off to catch up marking papers or get ahead on planning. Your only planning should involve thinking about what would feel relaxing. In order for this day to be worth using your sick time, it must be beneficial to your mental well-being. So be your own best friend and tell yourself to make it a great day. [et_pb_text content_tablet=” 🔵 MARK YOUR CALENDAR: Events for educators – will you join us? Ja……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….
…as “like giving yourself 1,000 interns.” He uses it to summarize research papers, brainstorm ideas, and make connections. Tasks that used to take him hours can now be done in 10-15 minutes. One of the most exciting benefits of AI, especially for knowledge workers, may be liberating time from mundane tasks to more important work. Ask yourself, what would I do with time freed up from boring, administrative tasks? How could I take action or build ha……Do AIs like ChatGPT and Claude help business consultants do better work? The answers vary widely based on the task, according a new study….
…splay emotions, their feelings can elicit a different response compared to white workers displaying the same emotions,” writes Zulekha Nathoo of the BBC. “This forces BIPOC employees to self-monitor in the workplace, to guard against colleagues incorrectly interpreting their emotions in a way that adversely impacts their careers – significantly increasing their emotional load.” Recognizing and protecting against these racial and gender disparities……An organization’s emotional culture influences employee satisfaction, burnout and the bottom line. Is it time to rethink your rules?…
…s story because each person’s story is valuable to them and the story of a white male is a white male story he grew up just like we did from a child and was taught a lot of things or not taught a lot of things and so unpacking all of that as you said it’s gonna take time and it’s going to be uncomfortable I would hope that it is not painful but it is uncomfortable to admit I am angry when I see a black person I don’t know why and that’s the work t……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….
…F) as well as a set of slides (PPTx) to share these findings. Get the Free White Paper and Slides: EQ and Success Fill in this form and your white paper and slides will be emailed in seconds: What’s new in emotional intelligence? Why do leaders from places like the UN, FedEx, Amazon, Qatar Airways choose Six Seconds’ tools and methods? Global: Used in 157 countries & territories — this approach works everywhere. Scientific: The latest research cre…
Emotions serve to focus our attention on aspects of the world that help us thrive. They provide information about our interior world and about our relationships. For this survival function to operate optimally, we are highly sensitive to emotional signals in the environment. One person’s emotions are affected by others’. This effect is called “Emotional Contagion” and provides important insight into why we must and how to manage emotions for opti…
…safe spaces for everyone and build empathy, collaboration and trust. Ruth Whiteside, M.Ed. – Director, Children’s Emotional Language and Thinking (CEL&T), Northumberland, UK Having worked in schools with a diverse community, I find myself questioning how I might be subtly – or not so subtly – part of the problem of division and bias. I want to be able to work in a more equitable society, and that has to start with my own reflections on my privile……Join social emotional learning (SEL) educators in an online story-sharing experience to weave personal, interpersonal and communal stories to create a collective narrative toward equity. Participate to learn practical frameworks and tools that can build connections across difference….
…uccessfully increase attention, participants had to 1: Physically wear the white coat, and 2: associate the white coat with a symbol of attentiveness (the doctor). I’m not suggesting we all walk around wearing white lab coats, but I imagine each of us could use this lesson to bolster our emotional intelligence goals. How could changing something you wear boost your own illuminating aspirations? Would wearing a doctor’s clothes make you more atte……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….
…e-first-leadership-fedex-express/ Freedman, J. M., & Fariselli, L. (2016). White paper: Emotional intelligence and success. Retrieved from https://www.6seconds.org/2019/03/12/white-paper-emotional-intelligence-and-success/ Freedman, J. M., & Stillman, P. (2016). The business case for emotional intelligence. Retrieved from https://www.6seconds.org/case/business-case-ebook/ Freedman, J. M., Jensen, A. L., Stillman, S. B., & McCown, K. (2016). Benchm……The progress and problems that define the Digital Era are the logical conclusion of 100 years dedicated to cognitive intelligence. What would emerge from 100 years dedicated to emotional intelligence?…
…Charity Goodwin is an African American woman ordained in the predominantly white United Methodist Church. After serving multiple churches as one of the few persons of color, she began developing spiritual practices that support her faith devoid of colonialism and white supremacy. She continues to cultivate and practice these ways of being. They have been most fulfilling during the pandemics. Rev. Goodwin is a mom to two boys. The oldest is on the……Climate of Emotions Retreat Day 1 – Newly Emerging…
…Brain Profiles assessments. Using these tools, I wrote 8 case studies and white papers, showing the relationship between emotional intelligence and performance 2. In 2013 I found and managed the first group of Preferred Partners in the history of Six Seconds. This step brought a lot of changes and in 2019 I founded a division focused on the corporate sector named EQ Biz, with the collaboration of all the Italian preferred partners. A collaborativ…
…’s excited to see what linking emotions to climate change will bring. Ruth Whiteside, M.Ed. – Director, Children’s Emotional Language and Thinking (CEL&T), Northumberland, UK I taught for 20 years in the UK primary education system, and now work as a freelance consultant, focusing on bringing EQ to schools. A certified Six Seconds EQ Practitioner, Assessor, Coach and Educator, my pedagogy and philosophy is about the whiole person, not just the pup……To bring the Climate of Emotions self-guided learning to life, experienced facilitators from around the globe are supporting you in this renewal process….
…onals to effectively cope and thrive in a challenging work environment.” A White Paper explaining the study is online and more research is available on www.6seconds.org/tools/sei/research (a powerpoint of the key points is also available on either page). The correlation between EQ and scores on the performance assessment are shown visually in this graph where each dot is one person’s scores on both assessments. The graph shows that in general as E…
…d the possibility to organize a monthly call where we explore new research papers within the three competencies. I will follow up on this and look at a good framework to start it. I would like to start monthly calls within the group where we explore language and distinctions for different terms. (for example: the difference between being self-preoccupied and self-observant, the difference between choice and decision). My journey with Six Seconds h……How are EQ experts using the tools and methods in the real world? Take a glimpse inside Six Seconds’ Master Class with these powerful projects…
…global sample of over 75,000 individuals. What do you notice? I notice the white spaces in the top left and bottom right corners. These spaces indicate that there are almost no individuals who score low on EQ and high on Success – or vice versa. People with high emotional intelligence are likely to be doing well, to be effective at work, to have strong relationships, good health and a high quality of life. And people with low emotional intelligenc……The progress and problems that define the Digital Era are the logical conclusion of 100 years dedicated to cognitive intelligence. What would emerge from 100 years dedicated to emotional intelligence?…
…ateful to be learning together with you. – Josh & Patty click the little white arrow to the right to see all the messages Happy Birthday from David, USA & all of us who wish we could sing like this! Love, Susan & Paul from the ocean Anabel, thanks so much for your friendship, inspiration, and passion. You’ve brought color and warmth to the fairly cold and “black and white” world of this accountant. – Fred Six Seconds matters to me because it……Happy Birthday Anabel Jensen! Here are wishes from the Six Seconds community on your 80th birthday, and how we’re inspired by your work and commitment to EQ….
…laring flaw of the original study, which looked at a cohort of exclusively white males. For a detailed look at the study today, its challenges and potential, check out this article from The Washington Post. Do these findings confirm or challenge your beliefs about what makes a good life? Post it in the comments below! You may also like… https://www.6seconds.org/2018/09/05/state-of-the-heart-2018/ https://www.6seconds.org/2019/03/12/white-paper-e……Harvard study, more than 80 years old, identifies the common threads of a long, satisfying life. So what makes a good life? And how can this study’s findings help us make better decisions in our own lives?…
…bias. Then there’s communication. In a polarized society in the US, are white people willing to hear the anger and pain that Black people have experienced? Are people of multiple races open to giving the emotional-grace to honor one another’s feelings, and to feel and heal together? Panelists: Karen T. Craddock is an Applied Psychologist, certified EQ Practitioner and personal/executive coach. She has special interest in issues of equity & we……What’s the importance of honoring the complexity and fullness of emotions especially experienced by BIPOC in the wake of racial bias?…
Your Invitation: Three gifts the antiracist uprising brought me as a white man My strategy was to avoid the topic. I considered myself “not racist,” but when issues of racism came up, I’d demur, “it’s not my area of expertise.” In other words: I didn’t want to do that work. When I’d see the videos of brutality against BIPOC community members, I’d scroll quickly past. I didn’t want to think those thoughts. I didn’t want to feel those feelings. Yet……Emotions around race and racism are big and complex. And perhaps they’re an important message — an invitation from you, to you?…
…thing intriguing: In this game, there is only ONE possible action. Hit the white ball. Your only “move,” your only way to affect the results, is to hit the white ball. Yet different results occur each time. And is it enough to just whack the ball? Despite my paucity of pool prowess, usually I am not so pathetic as to simply want to hear the “crack” of the cue. I actually want to get a ball into a pocket! (Preferably one of my own, but honestly, so……I’ve noticed something intriguing – if you have no idea what result you want, you’re unlikely to get it. My skills at pool/billiards are terrible, but I still can plan ahead and think about how I’m going to whack the cue ball to get a particular result. Isn’t this true of all of our interactions? If we decide “where we want the ball to go” in our meetings, conversations, interactions… then it’s much more probably we can make that happen….
…ines how quickly people bounce back from an upsetting experience: the more white matter (axons connecting neurons) lying between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala, the more resilient people are. What’s the relationship between them that would create this effect? You may recall that naming emotions has been found to reduce the intensity of feelings, and it appears to be the same phenomenon in play here. Naming emotions activates the left prefr……Decades of research show three essential ingredients to grow resilience – powered by emotional intelligence. Here’s how….
…ies in teacher education, Afrofuturism in art education, post+colonial (La Paperson, 2010) thought and diversity in the field. Her current projects include a collaborative, three-part, rhizomatic self-study exploring the use of the 5E lesson-planning model in art teacher education, an afro-autoethnography and a series of Afrofuturistic fibers projects as arts-based research. Sofía is a political science student at the University of Costa Rica, p……Meet the global, diverse, intergenerational changemakers at the intersection of climate & social justice…
…to work on but the tools I have learned will be with me on my journey. Abi White, Head of L&D, TECOM Investments Probably the best training course I have ever attended in 25 years of business. James Dewar, Director, RMD Kwikform Every time I engage with Six Seconds, I learn about myself, others and the content – through engaging, relevant and inspiring activities… With emotional intelligence growing as one of the most important skills in the workp……What do our clients say about Six Seconds? Collected testimonials about our emotional intelligence training, assessments and community….
…h and Practice: Using Proactive Narratives in a U.S. Department of Defense White Paper Assessing and Anticipating Threats to US Security Interests and recently contributed to the International Encyclopedia of Media Psychology. Dr. Hogg is currently working with IEEE for standards in Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. Dr. Hogg holds a PhD in Psychology and an MS in Communications and Information management. You can find her on Twitter @HoggJL a……The virtual conference at the intersection of emotions & technology – are we we undermining our own humanity or flourishing? How do we get more of the latter?…
…out how you feel. “I feel I found some parts of me that I had lost.” – Abi White, Head of L&D, TECOM Investments Professional development is personal development. Like you, we care about making a positive contribution to the world. When you learn about your emotions, you can change your patterns and your relationships. That’s why we created Unlocking EQ — a 1-day course that delivers practical tools with a cohort of energized people. Engaging Way…
…out how you feel. “I feel I found some parts of me that I had lost.” – Abi White, Head of L&D, TECOM Investments Change starts with you. Like you, we care about personal development to make a positive contribution to the world. When you learn about your emotions you can change your patterns and your relationships. That’s why we created Unlocking EQ — a 2-day course that delivers practical tools with a cohort of energized people. Engaging More than…
…Teaching and Teacher Education. She was appointed to the Government Cross Whitehall What Works Trial Advice Panel, serves on the American Enterprise Institute Future of American Education Working Group, and has advised the Cabinet Office on educational issues. For more information, see: https://corcoranlab.org/ With over a decade of classroom experience, Cherilyn’s goal is to integrate social emotional learning into all levels of education. Cheri…
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…g the ideas flow. I might call a friend for some pointers, or read similar papers by others, but I always try new ways of conceptualizing the ideas and noting them down. I’m no artist, but mind maps are an excellent way of doing this. One technique I find useful is to jumble together disparate ideas and see how I might cluster them to generate something original. C Celebrate Challenges You Find E Exercise Our Optimism I have friends who suffer ter……Be compassionate… not just to others, but starting with yourself….
…mance. In the last year there have been a number of books, articles in newspapers and magazines, and a whole new industry developed to support emotional intelligence in the workplace. There seems to be widespread agreement that these skills are essential. It will be a great day when the education world has the same level of commitment. The noble prize winners, the most academically “successful” people I could find, uniformly agreed that social-emo……In this speech, Six Seconds’ Chairman Karen McCown shares the definition, process, and purpose of teaching emotional intelligence. Karen founded the renown Nueva School in 1967 as a laboratory for integrating academic and emotional development for gifted children (it went on to win two Federal Blue Ribbon Awards for Excellence in Education)….
…tled up that fizzy energy into a bottle so we could all share it. On giant papers posted around the walls, we captured thoughts, feelings and actions with colored markers. To the right are answers to: What are you getting from this work? Made with Wordle, larger words are more frequent Evidence of Growth Five years ago, we were structured as a training company. Though very successful, that structure would never lead to a billion people practicing……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….
…atements by the students in class, journals, mid-term and final reflection papers, and evaluative feedback from school supervisors. Students in the experimental group received individual and group scores on the eight competencies utilized in the assessment. These students engaged in individual reflection and group debriefing on their SEI results and journaled on their use of EQ during the semester. The composite Emotional Intelligence score gain…
…, I invented the ‘homework Gremlin’ who would borrow or steal my students’ papers so that I couldn’t grade them. This character became an (admittedly extremely flimsy) comedic excuse for a severely overworked teacher who wasn’t finding enough hours in the day to grade everything that arrived on her desk. But the students loved how I stepped out of my formal character and joked about this invisible monster who was wrecking my carefully laid plans t…
…and community action programs. Within the school, students can create newspapers that give voice to all students. Schools also can arrange with local cable stations to give students broadcast time to share what they are learning in school. A great model for this can be found at Benjamin Franklin Middle School in NJ. Hope is not like an eternal flame, once lit, never extinguished. In adolescence, the ups and downs of life and teens’ exaggerated……Educators and parents are concerned about children and youth becoming cynical about making the world a better place. They seem to be losing hope. Dr. Maurice Elias offers three strategies to change that….
…e. As we strolled along the cemetery, we ran into an older man with a long white ponytail. We started chatting amiably. He worked at the Unitarian Universalist church connected to the cemetery, where Alison had been an active member for years and years. Maria asked: “Did you know Alison Piepmeyer?” An Unforgettable Look He nodded, and made steady eye contact with Maria. A powerful mix of emotions poured from his eyes. Some mix of love, longing, pa……I saw a look on a man’s face the other day that sent shivers down my spine. It brought my lovely partner to tears. It told a story of love, admiration, loss and pain. And it got me asking myself: How can I inspire that look in other people’s eyes?…
…advice. I discovered just how therapeutic it was to put down in black and white exactly how I was feeling. I also wrote what I wanted to do about my crisis situation and anticipated some plans (set goals and objectives) for the future. Writing poetry was also recommended, but this turned out to be a new kind of agony for me, so I abandoned this avenue of help. But, for my son, writing poetry was very healing and he wrote volumes. It still makes m…
…ommon humanity.” Holding emotional space As a black man in a predominantly white community, Michael Eatman finds the question of race difficult to ignore. And one stereotype he has had to overcome is that of the angry black man. He recalls a colleague who asked him if he ever got angry. “As a man of color, often times I learned to button things up nice and quick. So I said, ‘I don’t really get angry.’ Which is not really true. I’m a human being. I……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….
…ple and powerful. Or to dive deeper into emotional contagion, download our white paper and free slides by clicking on the button below. Author: Joshua Freedman is COO of Six Seconds – The Emotional Intelligence Network; he is the author of At the Heart of Leadership, the SEI Leadership Report, and the Organizational Vital Signs climate assessment. References: [1] Neumann, R., & Strack, F. (2000). “Mood contagion”: The automatic transfer of moo……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….
…rgued that competitive activities inculcate binary thinking (yes/no, black/white) at a time when considering the gray areas of policy and society has never been more important. It also encourages our children to believe that success must come at the expense of others – there can be no winning without someone else losing. Proponents of competitive games for children remind us that team sports, for example, provide physical exercise and skills growt……How do schools become vibrant, joyful, inclusive communities? School leaders intentionally build them with teachers, students and family collaboration….
…other words, a lot of energy, and at the end, you’ll only have really fine white ash left. We burn our food. It’s very much like that. You need proper oxygen supply to really have a lot of energy available, to not have a lot of dirty exhaust. 7. LAUGH! Laughter is amazing, too. There are these old sayings, “laughter is the best medicine.” It is. In my opinion, crack a joke. Have a laugh. Have some joy. Joy is such a healing energy. That should be……Practicing emotional intelligence around how we eat it is an often forgotten key to digestive health, according to digestive psychologist Caspar Poyck. Here are 6 ways to eat mindfully and feel better physically….
