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Exploring Emotional Intelligence;
Identifying Emotional Reactions
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Style of Instruction:
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Didactic |
Method of Instruction:
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Lecture;
PowerPoint
Presentation |
Length of Program:
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1-3 hours |
Goals:
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To develop a
basic knowledge of emotional intelligence |
Like all skills (such as learning a sport or musical
instrument), emotional intelligence can be developed
through didactic instruction, role modeling, and direct experience.
Didactic instruction
sets the stage as it
creates an awareness of the elements of emotional intelligence. This
parallels learning, for example, to play tennis. The first step generally
involves creating an awareness of what the skill(s) involve. The process of
didactic instruction is a cognitive (awareness) process.
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Understanding
Emotional Intelligence;
Assessing Emotional Reactions
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Style of Instruction:
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Didactic and
Role Modeling |
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Method of Instruction:
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Lecture; PowerPoint
Presentation, video, discussion |
Length of Program:
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3-4 hours |
Goals:
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To develop a
basic knowledge of emotional intelligence, and demonstrate how emotional
intelligence is applied in practical situations. |
Role Modeling involves one
person demonstrating (generally visually) to the learner. A parent serves as a
role model to his/her children by demonstrating emotional intelligence when
he/she reacts to situations in daily life. A tennis instructor has a student
watch others play so he can point out what is and is not effective skill.
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Developing Emotional Intelligence;
Managing Emotional
Reactions
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Style of Instruction:
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Didactic,
Role Modeling, and Experiential Learning |
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Method of Instruction:
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Lecture; PowerPoint
Presentation, video, discussion, and exercises and
activities that help participants experience emotional and behavioral reflexes
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Length of Program:
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4+ hours |
Goals:
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To develop a
basic knowledge of emotional intelligence, and demonstrate how emotional
intelligence is applied in practical situations, and create
opportunities for participants to experience their own emotional and behavioral
reactions to everyday activities.
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Direct
experience (also called experiential learning) involves both repeated practice
and direct experience. Direct experience can involve an individual
sensing his/her emotions and developing the capacity to express or choose
not to express those emotions. It involves the capacity to feel
and act effectively on one's feelings.
Dealing effectively, for example, with frustrating experiences is one type
of emotional intelligence.
Emotional intelligence can also be developed by experiencing
the emotional intelligence of another person. For example, an emotionally intelligent
parent can create an atmosphere where a child experiences/feels that
parent's capacity to manage emotional experiences and act effectively on
his/her emotions. Children of emotionally intelligent parents grow
to the level of emotional intelligence of their parents. This is a slow process of repetitive
experience. It is parallel to learning a sport (e.g. tennis) or to play a
musical instrument (piano). Learning the skills of emotional
intelligence requires persistence and repetition as well as feedback on the
specific skills being learned.
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