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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.
Read MoreEQ Education
How does social emotional learning improve educational effectiveness? How can students, teachers, parents, and administrators use the skills of EQ to get better results?
Talking with Kids About Tragic News
After horrific events in the news, do you share your feelings w kids/students… or try to reassure by hiding your feelings? How can we talk with children about these difficult feelings?
Read MoreFirst 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.
Read MoreHow to Increase Empathy in Children
The key to happiness is strong, lifelong relationships – and you build those with empathy. Here’s how to increase empathy in children.
Read MoreResearch 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.
Read MoreDragonfly: Social Emotional Learning Goes Outdoors
For kids across Asia, Dragonfly’s outdoor ed and service learning program is all about self-discovery through EQ. Find out how this unique model is helping kids develop their interpersonal skills.
Read MoreImproving School Leaders’ Effectiveness Through EQ
Principals have a special role in promoting social emotional learning. Find out what the research shows works best.
Read MoreHow to Understand People: Ask, Listen, and Get Real
Do you want to know how to understand people more easily? A starting point is a wide-spread lie we tell others — and ourselves. Here’s how to connect on a deeper level.
Read MoreTeaching in the Age of Selfies
Read MoreHow to Teach Children Emotional Intelligence for a Better World
When feelings run hot, how can we use emotional intelligence to fuel our commitment for positive change… and support children to create a better world?
Read MoreSupporting Children’s Rights through Strong Relationships
Mutually respectful relationships are a foundation for human rights. So how can children & adults use emotional intelligence to strengthen relationships?
Read MoreTeaching Emotional Intelligence Like a Snake Charmer
Like charming snakes requires special skills, teaching EQ in schools gives students training for life to help make positive choices and healthy relationships.
Read MoreStudying EQ in a Rural Appalachian Highschool
Can a 10-week EQ Course change the Emotional Intelligence scores of students in a rural Appalachian high school class? Eastern Kentucky is comprised of tiny towns tucked into valleys between the steep Appalachian Mountains in the heart of coal country. The region has some of the highest drop-out rates in the nation, as well as […]
Read MoreMiddle School Climate & Learning – AERA research
New research is shedding light on what middle schoolers are feeling about school and learning — and what makes social emotional learning (SEL) effective for young adolescents. They crave authenticity and connection, but are not finding these at school.
Read MoreThe Case for Social Emotional Learning
What is emotional intelligence and why does it matter in education? What does current research say about “social emotional learning”?
Read MoreMindful Insights into Student SEL Development
Six Seconds Co-Founder/President, Anabel Jensen, Speaks at NAIS Conference Yesterday, I shared the stage with one of my heroes—Denise Clark Pope, author of Doing School: How we are creating a generation of stressed out, materialistic, and miseducated students. She is also co-author of the recently released Overloaded and Unprepared: Strategies for Healthy Schools and Healthy, […]
Read MoreNavigating Emotions at School – A Principal’s Story
When children are experiencing “big emotions,” a principal finds that a simple process for emotional intelligence makes all the difference.
Read MoreBully-proof Your Kids with Emotional Intelligence
Read MoreTeachers Learning EQ: An Arizona Success Story
Emotional Intelligence Is Key to Teacher Education at ASU It seems a given that all teachers colleges would teach emotional intelligence, but that is not the case. Now, with the help of Six Seconds, Arizona State University is pioneering a teacher training program that places EQ front and center. As it grows, it will become […]
Read MoreAsk More Powerful Questions
What makes a powerful question? Teachers, coaches, parents who want to generate deeper thinking need to know these three levels – with video.
Read MoreHealthy Classrooms, Emotional Intelligence, and Brain Research
Research shows social emotional learning improves classroom performance. How does it work & what does brain research show about emotion in learning?
Read MoreThree Traps for Teaching EQ, Especially for Teens
Recently a student told me that she dreads the “SEL” class in her school because, “the teacher is so fake.” There are three key traps that lead to this kind of failure in social emotional learning, and some simple-but-challenging solutions to find a balance in inquiry, planning, and power.
Read MoreSociograms: Mapping the Emotional Dynamics of a Classroom
A sociogram is a useful tool for educators who want objective data on a classroom’s social dynamics – here’s how they work.
Read MoreDeveloping EQ Smart School Counselors: A Case Study
Read MoreResearch Case: Six Seconds’ Self-Science Curriculum
This study examines the relationship between social-emotional instruction and academic competencies of motivation and goal setting, critical thinking and problem solving, collaboration and leadership, and agility and adaptability. The researcher embedded a social-emotional curriculum called Self-Science designed by Six Seconds in her third grade classroom during the 2010-2011 school year. Findings indicated increased motivation […]
Read More‘If You Want To Know What A Child Is Thinking, Watch Their Fingers.’
I went to a funeral last week. Mary C. Laycock was a wonderful mathematician and teacher. I worked with her at Nueva School in Hillsborough, CA and knew her for many years. Her students adored her and her ‘Mary’s Math.’ One lesson with Mary and you would develop an insight into math that would stay […]
Read MoreAddressing 21st Century Issues with Emotional Intelligence: A conversation with Daniel Goleman and The Six Seconds EQ Network
Read MoreEmotional Intelligence: A Key to Positive Change
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).
Read MoreThe Six Seconds Model of Emotional Intelligence
The Six Seconds model turns EQ theory into practice for your personal and professional life. Emotional intelligence is the capacity to blend thinking and feeling to make optimal decisions — which is key to having a successful relationship with yourself and others. To provide a practical and simple way to learn and practice emotional intelligence, Six Seconds developed a three-part model in 1997 as a process – an action plan for using emotional intelligence in daily life.
Read MoreFourth Grade Satyagraha
Emma, my daughter, is having “the year of her life” in school — huge leaps of passion and learning and adventure. And facing powerful challenges. The most pressing being a relentless conflict with another girl, let’s call her Josie. They are both strong willed, independent, and believe themselves to be smart. Patty & I have […]
Read MoreVigilance and Violence Prevention
EQ Reflection: Vigilance and Prevention April 27, 1999 I know we’ve all heard and thought a lot about Columbine. Rather than going over the same ground about what happened and why, I’d like to consider my own role in this kind of violence, and ask you to do the same. Like all of us, I […]
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