How Emotional Literacy can Help us in Everyday Life This morning, without wearing my glasses, I tried unsuccessfully to read the labels on some bottles. Although I knew that the bottles each contained either shampoo, conditioner, hand cream or shower gel, without my glasses I didn’t know what product was in which bottle. It could …
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Why Saying Yes to Everything is Not Always Helpful I have a strength in saying yes. Ask me to do something for you and, if I can do it, I can almost guarantee that I will say yes. The thing is, however, that I tend to say yes without boundaries. I don’t always pause to …
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In improvisational theatre, audiences can be exposed to what is quite often comedy gold. However, what an audience may not realise is that they are also being exposed to well-oiled collaborations that, in every random and unplanned moment, bring us lessons for how we might create powerful and collaborative interactions in our everyday life. What …
What is Emotional Literacy? What is emotional literacy? To answer this question, let’s first look at what is meant by literacy. When we have literacy in a particular language, we are able to use that language in a way that serves us. We are free to choose the words and grammatical distinctions of that language …
Leading with Emotional Literacy Recently, this audio of a conversation between an air traffic controller and a student pilot has been doing the rounds of the internet. The student was having his third flying lesson, the first in that particular plane. The flight instructor experienced a medical emergency, leaving the student to land the plane. With guidance …
