EQ Tools: Michigan Reach Out! is a program that links college students and community members with teens and children in mentoring relationships. They created a workshop to better understand feelings and emotions and posted a preview with the statement, “we permit anyone to use these materials, but not to sell them.” So, feel free to [...]
This month’s website by Joseph Hager (a contemporary and colleague of Paul Ekman, the famous facial expression interpreter) is an interesting look at the critical link between the face – that emotion revealing target of our eyes when we encounter another human being – and emotions. Check it out and I’m sure you’ll agree there’s [...]
This month’s website will appeal more to readers who enjoy the theoretical and academic aspects of emotional intelligence. The article displayed on this Stanford University website is all about emotions from different philosophical perspectives. I’m very interested in our graphic designer’s opinion of this article (Sherwin’s master’s degree is in Philosophy ;-) I don’t expect [...]
This month’s website is a site where you can breath with others around the world. Now that sounds really weird, but please allow me to suggest that you just try it before you dismiss it. As I’m sure you are aware, meditation is one way to improve emotional intelligence skills, especially emotional self-awareness. There is [...]
I’m so excited by the books I’ve been given to review recently by really wonderful authors that I either know or have met. I’ve got quite the pile that I eagerly look forward to reading. Which one am I going to talk about this month? I think I have to mention my friend and colleague, [...]
You are going to love theEITC website of the month for April. I heard Jonathon Harris on ted.com and was extremely impressed with him and his project, “We Feel Fine.” When you go to wefeelfine.org, you will see bunch of coloured dots moving around the screen. Each dot represents a human emotion of someone who [...]
This month’s book is “Don’t Let Your Emotions Run Your Life: How dialectical behavior therapy can put you in control” by Scott E. Spradlin, A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook. This is a wonderful workbook that I have found to be invaluable for examining our own relationship with emotions. I bought it from Odin Books in [...]
