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POPUP Festival
Celebrated in 200+ countries in partnership with UNICEF World Children’s Day, POP-UP Festivals are free wellbeing festivals that help kids grow their emotional intelligence. Provided with free, playful, meaningful activities, hosts all over the world bring essential skills to youth.
Climate of Emotions
Climate of Emotions (COE) is a leadership training program for young climate activists to build emotional skills – so they can be more effective in their work on climate action and build the inner resilience required for long-term work on environmental sustainability.
EQ Cafes
EQ Cafés are a 2-hour, interactive, cost-free learning workshop led all around the world by trained volunteers who are passionate about increasing the world’s emotional intelligence. Gain skills, meet others in your area, and learn the latest neuroscience around emotions.
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This eBook offers beautiful, simple techniques for making emotional intelligence a bigger part of your daily life. Learn 8 facts about emotions and do activities to put them into action →
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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.
Beyond Individual Identity: A Social Approach to Coaching Self Awareness and 360 Feedback
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.
Want a Good Life? 3 Lessons from Harvard Grant Study
Discover how the 85‑year Harvard Study of Adult Development shows that strong relationships—not wealth or IQ—predict a longer, happier life.
Employees Are Facing Burnout. 5 Evidence-Based Emotional Intelligence Strategies for Leaders to Rekindle the Fire
Burnout is caused by basic emotional needs going unmet, and the antidote is for leaders and employees to leverage emotional intelligence.
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.
Emotions As a Motivation Supercharger: 3 Essential Questions to Feel Motivated
What makes motivation… motivating? Three powerful questions, a free worksheet, and powerful ways to strengthen energy from within (which we all need, especially when work/life feels challenging)
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