These resources from EQKids.org focus on dealing with the emotion of anger. Includes an illustrated book for kids about school bullying, a parent handbook, and an interactive writing and coloring book.
The Enchanté Emotional Literacy Set: Anger
The 10 Commitments: Parenting with Purpose
Become the parent you always wanted to be! This ebook contains straight talk about what it means to be a committed parent in today’s world. It will challenge you and make you a more effective parent. It will help you reduce stress in your parenting life and bring increased harmony to your family.
Research Summary: Knowing Your Emotions
This research paper and ppt summarize breakthrough research on emotional literacy: the ability to notice, name and understand your feelings. Hint: it’s correlated with success in school and throughout your life – and it’s learnable.
Help Kids Develop Emotional Intelligence with Sports
In this short article, Dr. Chris Stankovich talks about how sports can be a great way for kids to learn the essential skills of emotional intelligence- but only with proper guidance from coaches and parents. Includes relevant, easy to use tips for parents.
Emotional Intelligence and Success
This white paper, Emotional Intelligence and Success, summarizes Six Seconds’ research into the relationship between EQ and a number of life success factors: effectiveness, quality of life, relationships and wellbeing. Can emotional intelligence scores really predict performance on these key measurements of life success?
The Neural Power of Leadership
Why should leaders care about feelings? Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence and Social Intelligence, says the latest science makes a compelling case: your behavior and attitude has a powerful effect on performance.
Learning and Emotions
This research summary from Six Seconds summarizes the leading research into emotions and learning. For optimal learning to take place, we have to encourage our thoughts and feelings to work together.
Integrated Emotions: Rethinking How We Evaluate Our Feelings
Today, most people see emotions as “good” or “bad” — which leaves us in a constant state of internal struggle against our own feelings. Is there another option? And how did we come to this point?
The Workforce of the Future
How technology will unlock the emotional intelligence of the workforce of the future.
A Curious Case for Boredom
This article makes the case that the next time you feel bored, you shouldn’t grab your phone and block the feeling. Instead, recognize the signal boredom is sending you, and use it as a catalyst for change.
Addiction Is Part of a Larger Problem
This short, animated video challenges common assumptions about drug addiction. It makes the case that drug addiction is part of a larger problem of disconnection and loneliness- and that a big part of the solution is to focus on human connection
Social and Emotional Learning in Schools
What are the characteristics of effective social and emotional learning programs, and what could be improved? Get the answers to these questions and more in this Social Policy Report from The Society for Research in Child Development.
The Neuroscience of Empathy: Wired to Imitate
Check out the latest findings on the neuroscience of empathy. This ppt presentation and white paper summarize recent academic research into empathy and its neurological roots. For more on the neuroscience of empathy, read this related article http://www.6seconds.org/2016/08/28/the-neuroscience-of-empathy-wired-to-imitate/
Tips for Teaching Mindfulness to Kids
Guidelines for educators who want to incorporate mindfulness into the school day, or for anyone who wants to teach mindfulness to children. These tips come from the Mindful Schools program and shared by the Greater Good Science Center.
The Six Seconds Model
Interested in making positive change in your life? The Six Seconds Model of EQ takes emotional intelligence and helps you put it into action so you can make positive change- everywhere, all the time. This document is an outline of how that process works.
How to Foster Generosity in Students
This article from the Greater Good Science Center offers tips on fostering kindness and generosity in your students. They share a few simple, proven methods for creating a more connected classroom.
Start Empathy Toolkit
The Start Empathy Toolkit takes you through the process of creating an environment in which empathy can thrive – and how to actively cultivate empathy once you are there. An amazing resource full of interactive lessons and activities.
Extremely Precise Words for Emotions
In this article from New York Magazine, the author explores extremely precise words for emotions in different languages. Considering what research says about the importance of naming emotions, these new vocabulary words could be more useful than you think.
Intro to EQ
This is the Intro to EQ presentation from the EQ Practitioner course.
Academic Research- Negotiating Angry
Anger often causes negotiations to be unpleasant or to break down entirely. So what can we do to get optimal results from a negotiation? Is there a best way to regulate emotions? These slides answer these questions and more.
