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Gaining on It: How You Can Make Impact Every Day Using Emotional Intelligence for Mental Health Awareness Month

Gaining on It: How You Can Make Impact Every Day Using Emotional Intelligence for Mental Health Awareness Month

by Patty Freedman | May 6, 2026 | Six Seconds

Can we make the world a better place by practicing emotional intelligence? Here’s a guide to doing your bit, and fueling your own motivation to keep going

Emotional Intelligence for Positive Mental Health: From Surviving to Flourishing

Emotional Intelligence for Positive Mental Health: From Surviving to Flourishing

by Joshua Freedman | Apr 26, 2026 | EQ Life

Learn how emotional intelligence and self-compassion can help you move toward thriving, with 50+ research-based practices for flourishing. What if mental health isn’t just the absence of illness — but a continuum from surviving to full vitality?

Leading Kindness: When College Students Practice EQ in Service of Others, Their Own Emotional Intelligence Increases

Leading Kindness: When College Students Practice EQ in Service of Others, Their Own Emotional Intelligence Increases

by Six Seconds | Apr 9, 2026 | EQ Education

80 college students received emotional intelligence training, then led a citywide kindness festival for 400 second-graders & 300 first-year university students. A controlled study measured what happened — for both the children and the leaders.

Turn Up Your Sparkle: How Authenticity Can Be Your Greatest Asset

Turn Up Your Sparkle: How Authenticity Can Be Your Greatest Asset

by Patty Freedman | Mar 29, 2026 | EQ Life

Your authenticity, your sparkle, is not just who you are at your best — it’s also one of your greatest assets. Here’s how to use emotional intelligence to make your authentic sparkle shine.

Emotions Travel in Packs: What Your Feelings Are Really Trying to Tell You (The Emotion Constellation Map)

Emotions Travel in Packs: What Your Feelings Are Really Trying to Tell You (The Emotion Constellation Map)

by Joshua Freedman | Mar 23, 2026 | Six Seconds

Your feelings travel in packs. Learn how the Emotion Constellation model reveals the hidden connections between feelings — and the deeper needs they share.

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Understanding Your Emotional Needs

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Understanding Your Emotional Needs

by Patty Freedman | Mar 1, 2026 | EQ Life

When you’re facing an internal conflict, emotions can become confusing. Here’s how to “look beneath the surface” to discover the needs hiding behind your feelings.

Is Your Motivation Hiding? Shine a Light on It

Is Your Motivation Hiding? Shine a Light on It

by Patty Freedman | Feb 3, 2026 | EQ Life

What really fuels motivation? Recent neuroscience offers a suprising formula for fueling performance from the inside ou

Six Seconds 2025 Impact Report: Global reach, measurable outcomes and  a growing movement for emotional intelligence

Six Seconds 2025 Impact Report: Global reach, measurable outcomes and a growing movement for emotional intelligence

by Patty Freedman | Jan 2, 2026 | Six Seconds

Six Second is the global nonprofit working to increase the world’s emotional intelligence. Here’s what we created together in 2025

Leading Change in Times of Uncertainty: Why Managing Transitions Matters More Than Strategy

Leading Change in Times of Uncertainty: Why Managing Transitions Matters More Than Strategy

by Joshua Freedman | Dec 28, 2025 | EQ Business

Leading change in times of uncertainty requires more than strategy. Learn why emotional transitions, trust, and purpose drive sustainable change.

The Holidays Can Be Something We Make, Not Something We Survive

The Holidays Can Be Something We Make, Not Something We Survive

by Patty Freedman | Dec 7, 2025 | Six Seconds

Discover how emotional intelligence can ease holiday stress, reshape old patterns, and help you create traditions that feel meaningful, supportive, and truly yours.

Emotion AI: A Leader’s Guide to Use Emotional Intelligence for Effective AI Adoption and Change Management

Emotion AI: A Leader’s Guide to Use Emotional Intelligence for Effective AI Adoption and Change Management

by Joshua Freedman | Dec 2, 2025 | EQ Business

AI adoption challenges are emotional before they’re technical. Learn how fear, curiosity, and emotional intelligence shape whether AI succeeds in your workplace.

Requesting Trust: 5 Practical Steps to Repair and Increase Trust

Requesting Trust: 5 Practical Steps to Repair and Increase Trust

by Joshua Freedman | Nov 20, 2025 | EQ Business, EQ Life

Want to increase trust with someone? Try this challenging-but-rewarding framework for requesting trust.

Emotional Intelligence in Healthcare: A Quick Check-In Guide to Improve Patient Care and Reduce Burnout

Emotional Intelligence in Healthcare: A Quick Check-In Guide to Improve Patient Care and Reduce Burnout

by Six Seconds | Nov 18, 2025 | EQ Business, Six Seconds

Discover how emotional intelligence can help healthcare professionals reduce burnout, strengthen teamwork, and improve patient care.

From Challenges to Change: 3 Life Lessons I Learned from Unlocking EQ

From Challenges to Change: 3 Life Lessons I Learned from Unlocking EQ

by Alexandra Tanon-Olsson | Nov 17, 2025 | Six Seconds

Discover how the Unlocking EQ course helped transform challenges into growth, connection, and purposeful living through three powerful life lessons.

Leading Your Team Through Change

Leading Your Team Through Change

by Joshua Freedman | Nov 10, 2025 | EQ Business

When facing challenges leading team change, increasing trust, vitality and purpose are key factors to success.

No Rest for the Weary: Why Cultivating Rest Is an Art and a Science

No Rest for the Weary: Why Cultivating Rest Is an Art and a Science

by Patty Freedman | Nov 7, 2025 | Six Seconds

From sleep to reflection, explore the 7 types of rest that restore balance, spark creativity, and boost wellbeing.

Grappling with Challenging Emotions as a Manager: 18 Effective Emotional Intelligence Strategies

Grappling with Challenging Emotions as a Manager: 18 Effective Emotional Intelligence Strategies

by Joshua Freedman | Nov 3, 2025 | Coaching, EQ Business

On average, you and every person you interact with is experiencing more distress than you did just a few years ago. The heightened level of struggle presents a profound leadership challenge – here’s how to use emotional intelligence to handle difficult emotions, starting with your own.

What Are Emotions? Understanding the Science and Meaning Behind How We Feel

What Are Emotions? Understanding the Science and Meaning Behind How We Feel

by Joshua Freedman | Oct 25, 2025 | Six Seconds

Emotions are messages from your body and brain. Learn what emotions are, why we feel them, and how emotional intelligence helps us use them wisely.

Assessing Trust

Assessing Trust

by Joshua Freedman | Oct 18, 2025 | EQ Business, EQ Life

Want more clarity about how much you trust someone? Try these 3 techniques for assessing trust in a relationship.

Empathy Isn’t Fragile: Turning Sensitivity into Your Superpower

Empathy Isn’t Fragile: Turning Sensitivity into Your Superpower

by Patty Freedman | Oct 7, 2025 | Six Seconds

Discover how to turn sensitivity into strength — explore the science of empathy, balance emotions, and use compassion as your superpower.

Resilience in Recessionary Times: Emotional Intelligence Strategies to Stay Grounded in Escalating Challenge

Resilience in Recessionary Times: Emotional Intelligence Strategies to Stay Grounded in Escalating Challenge

by Joshua Freedman | Oct 5, 2025 | Six Seconds

When “our emotional buckets are running low,” we need to both stop the leaks AND refill our buckets. Here’s how to use emotional intelligence to build resilience, even when it feels extra-difficult to do so.

The Emotional Recession: Trillions of Dollars, Trillions of Heavy Days

The Emotional Recession: Trillions of Dollars, Trillions of Heavy Days

by Joshua Freedman | Sep 8, 2025 | EQ Business

The emotional recession is making every interaction harder. Discover five EQ strategies to rebuild resilience, trust, and connection at work and beyond.

Anticipation is Joy in Advance

Anticipation is Joy in Advance

by Patty Freedman | Sep 8, 2025 | Six Seconds

Discover the science of anticipation—how looking forward with hope boosts resilience, lowers stress, and helps you practice joy in advance.

Be Unapologetically You: The Emotional Intelligence Skills for Speaking Up

Be Unapologetically You: The Emotional Intelligence Skills for Speaking Up

by Patty Freedman | Aug 18, 2025 | EQ Life, Six Seconds

Why is it so hard to say what we really think? And feel? This post is a guide for using emotional intelligence to speak up for what matters.

Beyond Individual Identity: A Social Approach to Coaching Self Awareness and 360 Feedback

Beyond Individual Identity: A Social Approach to Coaching Self Awareness and 360 Feedback

by Joshua Freedman | Aug 10, 2025 | Coaching

Transform how you coach self awareness with this social approach that helps clients move beyond binary thinking. Includes practical 3-step framework, case study, and coaching tools for handling 360 feedback resistance.

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