Daily Practices for Increasing EQ

Panelists:

Peter Hatherley-Greene lived in the Middle East for the past 25 years and has a PhD in Arabic Culture and Society. Certified as a EQ SEI Assessor and additionally in Vital Signs and Insights into People Management (IPM), I continue to coach and train virtually within the region, employing my EQ knowledge and practices almost every day!

Beth Offenbacker, Beth’s work focuses on technical/scientific professionals and organizations with a  “Green” or sustainability focus.  A Certified Coach, Certified EQ Assessor, and a Certified Insights for People Management Trainer, she has a PhD in social science and her research centers on effectively engaging people in different cultural contexts.  She draws on her EQ skills every day at home, at work, and in the community.  “I love that I’m always growing and advancing my EQ skills,” Beth says.

Fiorella Velarde, psychologist, certified coach and educator & Six Seconds LATAM Regional Network Director. Fiorella is committed to creating joy, wellbeing and value with emotional intelligence, art and contemplative practices, which she has regularly applied to herself first in order to heal herself and to model for others.

Maria Jackson, EQ Coach & Author of Illuminate, is a self-proclaimed perfectionist and practices emotional intelligence every single day to build compassion and empathy. As an emotional intelligence facilitator, whose clients include Harvard University and Google, she blends evidence-based techniques with wholehearted empathy for an experience that leaves participants feeling inspired & empowered to set ablaze their inner light.

Joshua Freedman, cofounder and CEO, The Six Seconds Emotional Intelligence Network, working since 1997 toward a world with more EQ. Josh is a Master Certified Coach and author of the best-selling At the Heart of Leadership

Key Questions:

• What’s one difference between “knowing EQ” and “practicing EQ”?
• How can I manage my strong emotions during these times of uncertainty when almost everything triggers me?
• Imagine you are suddenly filled with an emotion you are very uncomfortable with. What is the emotion, and what do you do next?
• What is one thing you do daily to become more emotionally intelligent?
• When you started your emotional intelligence journey, what is one thing you did to practice emotional intelligence?
• If you had to pick ONE competency from the EQ Model today, which one would be?
• Does EQ allow you to “control”  outcomes? 
• In the midst of COVID, what one EQ practice *most* helps you stay in a place of equilibrium?
• in what ways has practicing EQ enriched your life, even in times of difficulty?