Strategic Overview EQ4Peace Worldwide, Inc. USA-based non-profit charity, IRS 501(c)(3) EIN: 83-3607189 Current State Many of today’s social problems have been linked to a lack of emotional education. We don’t learn EQ in schools, and we don’t/can’t talk about negative emotions at home, at work or with friends, so most are left uneducated and have […]
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Travel with Bungi Kargbo as he visits universities and schools in Sierra Leone, speaking with staff and students, to start after-school EQ Clubs. He is sharing that their key to their success is to learn both IQ and EQ. (Jan & April 2022) Then,
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The following are links to EQ4Peace Recommended Resources to learn more about EQ/EI/SEL/PMH/PeaceEd. What is EQ? What is SEL? EQ YouTube videos EQ-101 half-hour trainings Workshop recordings and PowerPoints EQ4Peace EQ4SuicidePrevention EQ4SocialWorkers EQ4Counselling Articles here on EQ4Peace.org Books written by our senior staff. EQ4Life Handbook – Matt Perelstein Bill Overton, EdD Harvey D Barb Deb
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We were having a family dinner. My dad, who was 81 at the time, had broken his back in a skiing accident, he had been in a long recovery and was still feeling poorly. We had a family get-together for Easter and out of the blue, he looked up from his coffee and dessert
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Introduction Vision Statement: A world at peace with all its citizens practicing EQ at home, school and work. Purpose Statement: To educate people everywhere on the skills, language, and attitudes necessary to enable individuals, families, companies, organizations, communities, and nation-states to bring EQ, SEL & PE into practice. Mission Statement – brief: The mission of
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90% of K–12 school district leaders have already invested in social-emotional learning products, or plan to do so over the 2019–2020 school year. Despite consistently significant medical advances and over 100 years of increases (pre-Covids), life expectancy in the USA actually dropped for 3 years in a row. A recent article in Educational
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I have always been interested in the Emotional Intelligence competency of Empathy. Dr. Brene Brown, one of my favorite researchers, has a wonderful quote about Empathy: “Empathy has no script. There is no right way or wrong way to do it. It’s simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing
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Hello and I hope you had a lovely summer!! In this issue of the EQ4Peace Newsletter, we are going to present 2 more online video SEL lessons for your use as school opens and the need for the practice of SEL increases in our schools and classrooms. The first lesson this month is
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Hi everyone, First of all, congratulations to all of you teachers, administrators, aides, assistants, office staff, and students who have earned a long-awaited summer break. I realize that some of you will be moving immediately into participating in summer school, summer camps, or summer trips but still you’re deserving of a pat on the back
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You may be wondering why I would start this article with a photo of dogs. First of all, I love dogs, and second of all, the photo relates to a MoodBooster that has really functioned as a “pick me up” to start my day in a positive way. Some of us tend toward being positive
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(content will include emergency ideas for interrupting the depression cycle, connecting and getting some help, right away)
We had been talking about icons, not the things on your desktop but pictures, slices of time, moments that invite you through the portal of time and space into eternity and infinity. An old apple tree planted in a hayfield now being encroached with pine saplings became my symbol for how all generations live
Good, clean humour, to consciously lighten our spirit! EQ Quote of the Day “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” ~ Helen Keller
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Conversing On The Real: Authentic Conversations About Living Plugged In By Heather Constantine LMSW-IPR and Deborah Havert $ 43.84 *includes shipping & handling Checks written to Personage Publishing Or: https://products.6seconds.org/shop/conversing-on-the-real-authentic-conversations-about-living-plugged-in/ “The Other Kind of Smart” a book by EQPro author Harvey Deutschendorf https://products.6seconds.org/shop/the-other-kind-of-smart/ Putting EQ to the Test: Using EQ to Prepare
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Hi everyone, Welcome to the community building corner of the EQ4Peace Newsletter. In this corner, we will explore different concepts related to communities and community building. This past year in dealing with the COVID epidemic, we’ve all been challenged at different times and to different degrees by the isolation. We’ve all been pushed to
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Hello and welcome to taking a deeper dive into Emotional Intelligence practice. My name is Dr. Barbara Fatum and I am a school psychologist who specializes in Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and who has been practicing for over 30 years. I am very concerned about children’s well-being as they return to school in the
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The inside scoop on gratitude. Hello everyone and welcome to our very first EQ4Peace Worldwide, Inc. newsletter and a particular warm welcome into our Gratitude Corner. Thank you for joining us – we value and appreciate your presence here. My name is Karen Schaal and I am a doctoral researcher specializing in
Welcome to the MoodBooster part of our newsletter! Every newsletter you will see strategies for how you can “boost” your mood and even help others with their moods. We have choices about the way we feel. We all have times when we feel down, especially with the challenges of the pandemic.
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