Emotional intelligence (#EQ) & Positive Mental Health (#PMH), an Overview by Matt Perelstein Here’s a quick TOC. – Intro – Examples – EQ Training & EQ Healing – Pasta-bilities – MCP, MCP – Now What?!? ———– INTRO ———– EQ is like Magic! I believe we can change the world, from the inside out. I believe […]
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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 vs. ineffective, or constructive vs. destructive, helpful vs. unhelpful, rational (makes life better) vs. irrational (makes life worse). First, I think you have to consider
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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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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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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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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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Welcome from our CEO Matt Perelstein, EQDude The world is changing. We had better change with it. The pandemic has been, and continues to be, horribly painful for so many. The most brutal thing we can do to people, emotionally, is to lock them in a room by themselves. It’s called ‘solitary confinement’
What is Emotional Intelligence and Social-Emotional Learning? There seems to be some confusion about the terms that are used to explain the concept of Emotional Intelligence. Emotional Intelligence (EI) is the ability of our brain to effectively blend thoughts and feelings. EI can be improved in each of us. The skills of Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
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through mastering the knowledge, skills and competencies of Emotional Intelligence (EQ), Social Emotional Learning (SEL), & Peace Education (PE). By Bob Ingram *This is Part One of a Two Part Series. Please see the 2nd edition of this newsletter coming out October 1st to read the rest. When my friend Matt Perelstein first
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Hi everyone! Welcome to the EQ4Peace newsletter’s first edition and to the EQ & SEL in the Classroom Corner. It will be our goal to give you information, tips, & activities relevant to the classroom in every edition. My name is Bill Overton, EdD. and I was a classroom teacher for
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There is the common advice we give people, especially when they are going through difficult times with their career or relationship, we tell them to do whatever makes them happy. As soothing as that may sound, it is only partly true and can do more harm than good. As humans, we are wired to connect,
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As humans, our default tendency is to put ourselves first over anyone or anything else. We mostly consider helping others only when are done taking care of our own needs – that even rarely happens because the human appetite tends to be insatiable. We always want more. We want to make more money, buy or
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Part Two* *See Part One in the first edition of the newsletter (6/1/21) EQ4Peace’s Mission and Vision Our mission is to create global peace by cultivating inner peace (self), interpersonal peace (others) and social peace (communities) through emotional education (EQ) – worldwide. We envision a world at peace with all its citizens practicing
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