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7 Emotional Intelligence Facts: Take the Quiz and Get Practical Tips to Apply Today
Test your knowledge of emotional intelligence and gain key insights to bring EQ to life at home and at work
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Tips for Emotional Mastery: How to Fuel Wellbeing by Being Smarter with Feelings
How can we handle feelings more effectively? Here are the top 12 tips from emotional intelligence practitioners.
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5 SEL Check-In Activities for Your Classroom
Social emotional learning is essential for academic and life success. Here are 5 quick, easy check-in activities to bring SEL to life in your classroom.
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Getting Unstuck: The Power of Naming Emotions
Traffic is always stressful, right? Turns out, there’s a secret neuroscience tip about naming emotions that can help. It’s simple and powerful.
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Racism and Re-humanizing Emotions (#25)
What’s the importance of honoring the complexity and fullness of emotions especially experienced by BIPOC in the wake of racial bias?
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Integrated Emotions: Feelings Are Allies
What if all our feelings had value? Many people see emotions as “good” or “bad” — which leaves us in a constant state of internal struggle against our own feelings. Here’s a framework to rethink feelings as valuable signals about what’s important.
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Ask Us Anything About Emotions (#23)
What do emotions mean and how can we use them better? Check out this playful and provocative livestream asking anything about feelings!
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Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions: Feelings Wheel
Make sense of emotions with this interactive feelings wheel. Robert Plutchik’s wheel of emotions explained – guide & free download
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Coaching Emotions (#22)
Join Jenny Rogers (author of Coaching Skills), Ann Rindone (VP at ICF), Natalie Roitman (coauthor of The EQ Gym) and Josh Freedman (author of At the Heart of Leadership) in a deep dive to the heart of coaching.
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Celebrating Feelings: Emotions for Thriving
In two inspiring, interactive, authentic conversations, we’ll get to the essential basic for mental wellbeing: Talking about feelings.
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Yale’s Marc Brackett Shares Personal Healing Story
Marc Brackett says the process started by liberating himself from judging his own emotions, giving himself permission to feel.
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Illuminate: How Are You (Really) Feeling Today?
How can you be more empowered with your emotions? The first step is to be able to correctly label them, in a timely manner – the emotional intelligence skill of enhance emotional literacy.
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Emo-Shines: What Can Visible Emotions Can Teach Us
What if every subtle turn of our emotions were immediately obvious to us? And – just for fun – I pondered: What would happen if emotions were also visible to everyone else?
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Why “Six Seconds” – About Our Intriguing Name
The chemicals of emotion affect every living cell in our bodies – but they are quickly recycled – guess how long? Well… we’re called Six Seconds for a reason!
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Illuminate: Navigating Anger toward Wisdom
Dive into a beautiful (and true!) story about the power of navigating emotions– and learn how you can transform anger/sadness/grief/confusion into wisdom about yourself and your life’s path.
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7 Tips + Resources to Build Emotional Intelligence
From a chart that deciphers the meaning of dozens of feelings to a video that will change your understanding of empathy, here are 10 free tips + resources to cultivate emotional intelligence.
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Illuminate: Who drives you NUTS?
Your ‘Sandpaper Person’ illuminates your own personal beliefs + opportunities for growth. This articles breaks down how to identify + learn from the person who most challenges you.
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Illuminate: The Burn Out, Part I
So often, when we are in a hard place, we just want to get out as quickly as possible. But transforming our muck into meaning takes time, acceptance, and understanding. Here is my story of a recent burn out, and how you, too, can transform your muck.
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Illuminate: Getting Out of Your Head + Into Your Body
Do you know the difference between feeling hungry and feeling anxious? Four ideas for increasing your brain-body connection.
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Need Help Making a Decision? Try Mixed Emotions Cards
Have you ever had really mixed feelings about a decision or a choice you have to make? It can paralyze the decision making process and cause us to waffle endlessly back and forth. The Mixed Emotions card deck embraces the complexity of emotions and turns them into an asset for decision making.
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Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace: Taking the Risk to Talk Emotions In Tech
Tombola is no stranger to versatility. And their latest move – to invest in emotional intelligence in the workplace – shows they are on the cutting edge once again.
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How to Improve Emotional Intelligence: Tips to Practice Awareness (updated)
Want to know how to improve emotional intelligence? Here’s how to tune in to start, with downloadable resources + power tips from our certified practitioners all around the world on increasing self-awareness
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7 Amazing Facts About Emotions You Should Know
Got emotions? Everyone needs these 7 amazing facts about emotions and why we have them.
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Talking with Kids About Tragic News
After horrific events in the news, do you share your feelings w kids/students… or try to reassure by hiding your feelings? How can we talk with children about these difficult feelings?
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Out of the Darkness: 3 Tips for Dealing with Difficult Emotions
How do we deal with difficult emotions in an emotionally intelligent way? Doing so is essential for your overall wellbeing.
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Emotion, Feeling, Mood: What’s the Difference?
The neuroscience is fascinating, emotions are immediate biological signals, feelings come later, and moods build up over time.
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Scared Excited: Talking to Children About Trauma
How to Talk to Kids About Fear and Trauma, Part II It’s difficult enough that, as parents, we struggle to find answers to the everyday issues with our kids, such as how to get them to eat more veggies, do their chores, and be kind to their siblings. When it comes to trauma and fear, […]
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How Do I Control Emotions Better?
It’s one of the most frequent questions in emotional intelligence workshops worldwide. How can I get better at controlling my feelings? The language of this question reveals a bias that there are bad emotions requiring control – which means exerting power to subdue. Here’s a simply radical shift in perspective: How can I get better at harnessing […]
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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.
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Healthy Classrooms, Emotional Intelligence, and Brain Research
Research shows social emotional learning improves classroom performance. How does it work & what does brain research show about emotion in learning?
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Enhance Emotional Literacy
Emotional literacy helps you notice, name, and understand feelings. This provides critical information about you (and about others), which gives you insight into the core drivers of behavior. This understanding is also key to managing your reactions.
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Physiology of Emotion, Exercise, and Change
I was recently talking to a group about the fact that we can choose how we feel. “But didn’t you say emotions are an automatic biological response?” Yes, in fact, I did… but don’t we have choice about our biology? I remember years ago interviewing neurobiologist Debra Niehoff about the way some people seemed […]
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Getting Off the Trouble Train
“Have you ever found yourself in the middle a situation and you know it will to turn into a big mess? You can feel it slipping out of control… and yet you keep going. It’s as if you’re being pushed along this track; you know it’s going to lead to trouble, but it seems like there’s no choice.”
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The Neuroscience of Chai: Overcoming My Own Obstinance
Why do we sometimes take risks to learn, but other times we’re so determined to stay “right”? Zooming into the neurobiology, in a sense we have a tug-of-war between the striatum and the amygdala, between opportunity and risk. It’s just like trying Chai for the first time on the steamy streets of Kuala Lumpur.
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Decoding Emotions
Smarter About Feelings: Part Two . Part One introduced the idea of becoming smarter about feelings — and how that can help you (kids) get more of what you want… and less of what you don’t want! In that article I promised that I’d also write more about emotions and the meaning behind our feelings. […]
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Smarter About Feelings
When I was a kid, no one taught me about emotions. They’re so powerful! And such a big part of our lives… here are the most important ideas every kid (and adult) needs to know about feelings.
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Physics of Emotion: Candace Pert on Feeling Good
“Emotions are literally changing the chemistry of every cell of your body,” says Dr. Pert, “and affecting the world outside your body.”
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White Paper: Emotional Contagion
Emotions serve to focus our attention on aspects of the world that help us thrive. They provide information about our interior world and about our relationships. For this survival function to operate optimally, we are highly sensitive to emotional signals in the environment. One person’s emotions are affected by others’. This effect is called “Emotional […]
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Fight or Flow Part Two: “Water Is Stronger”
This second half of “Fight or Flow” explores the alternative to the kinds of “hitting back first” reactions discussed in part one. To constructively engage with emotions requires reframing the way we think — and feel — about feelings. It’s always amazed me that these heavy stones can move — float — on a cushion […]
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What Are Emotions?
Feelings are a dominant force in learning, they are powerful and meaningful. But what are they? What happens inside us when our “feelings are hurt” or when we are ready to “jump for joy”?
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