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 Vancouver, which has all kinds of these ‘self-help’ type of workbooks. See www.odinbooks.ca
It explores such key concepts as the nature of emotions, naming and describing emotions, emotional triggers, validation, emotion regulation. It is chock full of critical ideas in developing EQ skills – from a therapeutic point of view.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is described as “an eclectic mix of cognitive behavioral techniques, skills training, and Buddhist wisdom.” This made me smile and think – aren’t there a lot of programs and approaches that can be described this way? ;-)
Check out this book, let me know what you think, and send me your nominations for our monthly book review.
More New Year’s resolution success with emotional intelligence
Resolutions. Are we setting ourselves up for feeling like we’re failing?Conflict-resilience through coaching and emotional intelligence
Human resources leaders have the influence to build conflict-resilient workplaces through the training and development of emotional intelligence skills.Culture is grown not built
High performing teams are guided, mentored, and yes, coached.Preventing, or reversing, the turnover trend
The power of emotional intelligence in boosting employee retention through increased job satisfaction.
