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

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

Empathy Isn’t Fragile: Turning Sensitivity into Your Superpower

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

Anticipation is Joy in Advance

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

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.

6 Ways Emotional Intelligence Makes Decision Making Easier

Discover six research-backed ways emotional intelligence makes decision-making easier and more meaningful. Learn how EQ helps reduce decision fatigue, align choices with your values, and make the process more intentional—even when you’re under stress.

Stressed Out? 4 EQ Strategies for the End of the World (or Just a Bad Week)

Feeling overwhelmed? Discover four emotional intelligence strategies—from managing spirals to joy-snacking—that can help you navigate stress and tough times with clarity, resilience, and care.

Making EQ Visible = Making Impact

Discover how making emotional intelligence visible can inspire a more connected, compassionate world. From quiet moments of reflection to bold acts of connection, practicing EQ creates ripples of positive change.

How to Make Stress Work for You

Stress isn’t the enemy — it’s a signal. This article explores the neuroscience and emotional intelligence strategies that help you rethink your relationship with stress and discover how to turn it into a source of strength.

Trust: How It’s Built, Broken, and Repaired

Discover how trust is built, broken, and repaired—at work and in life. Explore key models and actionable strategies to strengthen trust and drive performance.

The Science of Achieving Your Goals

How to achieve any goal you have in 6 simple steps – boosted with emotional intelligence insights.

Productive Struggle: 4 Neuroscience-Based Strategies to Optimize Learning: EQ Education News

Do you instinctively want to help students when they’re struggling? What if some level of struggle was necessary for learning? Brain-based learning researchers have discovered a sweet spot for learning called “productive struggle.” Here’s why and how it works.

Emotion Science from Inside Out 2 – EQ Education News

What do you think and feel about the emotions in Inside Out 2? Let’s unpack the science and how you can use the film to keep developing emotional intelligence skills for you, your faculty and students.

Is Boredom Bad for Kids? Emotional Intelligence Education News

Let’s unpack boredom and how emotional intelligence can help you with tips to support bored children (and keep your cool!). Keep reading for EQ research and resources you can use for you, your faculty and students.

Are you a Maximizer or a Satisficer? Tips for Better Decisions – EQ Education

Overwhelmed by decisions? Here’s how emotional intelligence can help you develop strategies to be more efficient and balanced in your decisions not defeated by them.

Four Tips to Make A Culture of Learning from Mistakes: EQ Educator News

How emotional intelligence can help you learn from mistakes and make them a vital part of learning? Keep reading for EQ research and resources you can use for you, your faculty and students.

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.

Elmo Said WHAT? Research & Tips for Emotions for Wellbeing – EQ Education

When Elmo asked, LOTS of people answered. Checking in on emotions is a great step, but not enough for lasting wellbeing. Let’s put EQ into action this month!

EQ Education News: Am I Doing This All Wrong? 5 Tips for Parenting Shy Kids

Emotional intelligence skills are learnable at any age. In this month’s newsletter we explore the emotion Shy among children

Stick with It! 4 Tips for Tenacity: EQ Educator News

Feel like giving up sometimes? You’re not alone. Being an educator can be overwhelming. But we can develop tenacity to stick with it – and help our students do the same.

What Makes Us Seek Connection? EQ Educator News

Experiencing a sense of belonging is a driver for our wellbeing. Research and tips to build connection and community.

EQ Education News: Taking Care of Teachers

In this month’s newsletter we explore educator burnout, bringing you research and tips so you can have more tools to manage wellbeing.

EQ Education News: Learning from Loneliness

In this month’s newsletter, we dive into Loneliness, bringing you research and tips so you can better manage feelings of loneliness

Free Friendship and Empathy Kit from Red Nose Day & Six Seconds

In a time where so many children feel disconnected and alone, it’s time to share skills for being and making friends!

Stress Kills… But Is It All Bad? EQ Insights to Reduce Stress

“Challenge” stress energizes and increases efficiency; “threat” stress literally kills. And the difference is how you think about stress.

5 tips: Using EQ to Build a High Performing Culture

Can emotions be part of organizational strategy? Here are 5 expert insights and the latest research on improving performance by being smart with feelings, aka, emotional intelligence.

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.

EQ Master Class Project Gallery

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

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.

EQ Insights for Building Community

Community is about people. It’s both the feelings we have with our group, and relationships we share through activities, beliefs, & common purpose.

Practice of Practice: Free Mini-Course

How do you get better and reach your goals? Practice! But what’s the best way? Here’s a free minicourse where you’ll find out, in just 5 emails

3 Tips for Leaders to Increase Trust

Trust. That invisible force that makes things feel just right… and fuels teams & organizations to excel. Article, free slides & quiz on TRUST and how to get more.

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.