Get Started with Six Seconds
Learn how to practice emotional intelligence with a welcoming global community. Strengthen your life and relationships with these essential skills and set yourself up for personal and professional success.
Are you ready to improve your life and relationships with EQ?
Welcome to Six Seconds. We’re a global nonprofit dedicated to growing emotional intelligence. Want to join us?
Learn with Us
Our mission is growing the world’s emotional intelligence. Yes, that means you! Learn at your own pace with the Practicing EQ eBook, or join us for a live event →
Take Action
Join our volunteer-led campaigns to support wellbeing for the next generation. Learn more about how to get involved with these global movements →
Donate
We are working toward 1 billion people practicing emotional intelligence. Support our work to democratize EQ and bring tools and materials to children worldwide →
What’s It Like to Be Part of Six Seconds?
Click on the pictures to hear what people have to say:
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.
Download the Practicing EQ eBook
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 →
Join Us for a Free Live, Webinar
At Six Seconds, we believe in the practice of emotional intelligence. Come meet inspirational practitioners from all over the world and explore key EQ topics in community →
Get Certified with Six Seconds
Want to learn tools and methods to transform your relationship with yourself and others? Join us for Unlocking EQ, EQ Practitioner or another world class certification training program →
Would you like help choosing the emotional intelligence solution that’s right for you? Contact us.
Clients and partners include
Join us for an upcoming webinar!
Save your seat today for one of our upcoming global livestreams:
Get the latest emotional intelligence research and news
Want to learn more about emotional intelligence? Subscribe to get free insights weekly
Increase Employee Engagement with EQ: Komatsu Case Study
Can we measure and increase Employee Engagement in an economic challenge? What’s the benefit? Case study at Komatsu plant using “Vital Signs” and “Emotional Intelligence”: engagement increased from 33 to 70%. At the same time, plant performance increased by 9.4%.
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.
Learning & the Brain: Neuroscientist Immordino-Yang
At a neurological level, how does the brain actually learn, and what’s the role of emotion? What’s the implication for education and training?
Daily Practices for Increasing EQ (#27)
You know emotional intelligence is useful… but HOW do you actually use it on a daily basis?
Daniel Goleman on The Neural Power of Leadership
Why do feelings matter to leaders? Interview with Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence and Social Intelligence, on a new leadership imperative for optimizing human performance and the research that makes attention to feelings a bottom-line priority.
Fights Well with Others: Tips for Collaborative Parenting
Want less fighting at home? Three tips every parent can use to forge compromise. Bonus Poster for your fridge. Build trusting relationships with your children and even at work with Collaborative Parenting strategies.
Contact Six Seconds
Want to learn more about emotional intelligence training and certification? Just fill out this form and one of our team members will be with you shortly.