People often struggle to change the way they think, feel, say and do things, even when they really would like to, and have suffered serious professional, relational, health and economic consequences for the way they do.
Category: SEL
PMH Tool 10 – Recognizing when you and other have Mistaken Goals
Behavior is always purposeful. People start and continue to do things because it serves a purpose in their lives. Ideally, everything we think, feel, say or do would help us…
PMH Tool 9 – A simple, non-judgmental way to evaluate thoughts, feelings and actions
Irrational means thinking, feeling, saying or doing something that makes your life, and perhaps the lives of others worse instead of better. Rational means thinking, feeling, saying or doing something…
PMH Tool 8 – Asserting yourself with “I” Messages
Dr. Paul Hauck, an REBT therapist from Davenport, Iowa, USA said that whenever you find yourself in a situation you don’t like, you have four basic options: Problem solve and…
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Building Peace from the Inside Out! Join EQ4Peace’s Fall Emotional Education Campaign Teaching children how to manage their inner world, so they can create Peace inside and around themselves. People,…
PMH Mental and Emotional Toolbox – by Ray Mathis, EQ4Peace
Positive Mental Health Toolbox: 11 Mental and Emotional Power Tools The concepts, language, and skills to build a positive, successful, emotionally-intelligent life. Tool 1 – Understanding and appreciating the important…
PMH Tool 7 – A step-by-step approach to troublesome life events – Dr. Albert Ellis’ A-B-C-D-E steps
In math classes, we are taught that if we approach each new problem in the same step-by-step fashion, we are more likely to arrive at the correct answer to the…
Fostering Peace and Preventing Needless Conflict and Suffering Through Emotional Education
Want to truly take control of your inner world, mentally and emotionally? Here’s how.
Education, the Path to Peace?
By Bill Overton, EdD. Abstract Our present world needs a paradigm shift; one that has co-existing peacefully as the main goal. While people from all over the world have different…
#FeelIt2HealIt Training Videos
EQ4Peace 10 #FeelIt2HealIt Videos Tune in and explore how emotional education can create peace, power, and purpose in life! YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoG8zt1Hnn-GLuafyO64D2W_CdJJKG5dJ #EmotionalIntelligence | #PositiveMentalHealth | #Peace | #EQRocks! S2E1,…
#Pathways2Peace Podcasts
EQ4Peace Pathways2Peace Weekly Podcasts, July – Sept. 2022 Tune in and explore how emotional education can change our world, inside and out, by creating peace, power, and purpose in life!…
REBT 4 Peace
Applying the concepts of Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT) and Education to the goal of Peace Step 1: Start by teaching and encouraging students to adopt the belief that all…
10 Steps to EQ, by Ray Mathis
Step 1 – Learn and appreciate the important role emotion plays in everyday life. Emotion is energy to move to help us deal with threats and get what we want…
Authentic Communication
I had to look up the term “authentic communication” because I’d never heard it before. “Effective” yes but not authentic. I like to think of communication in terms of effective…
“What’s the EQ Dif?”, a game of distinctions
Distinguish the following Pairs, from an EQ point-of-view (10.23.2022) (hint1: this is NOT about speed… you need to ‘get it’, not just read it. Don’t just think about each, feel…
EQ4Peace Club Guidelines
Suggestions for EQ4Peace Clubs A Few Suggestions About How You Can Start and Maintain Your Own EQ Club Goals: The goals of EQ4Peace clubs are as follows: To learn and…
My Father Said I Was A Lousy Dancer
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…
EQ & SEL in the News- 2
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…
SEL & EQ “Dive ins”
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…
SEL & EQ in the Classroom
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…