EQ - EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Emotional Intelligence is understanding our own and others emotions, using thoughts and actions to make strong choices, so we can get along and help create a better world.
KNOW YOURSELF – Understanding your own and others emotions
- Recognising and naming your own and others emotions
- Describing how others are feeling
(eg. facial expressions, sounds, body language) - Linking thoughts, feelings and actions (TFA cycle)
- Recognising and describing your own patterns of thinking and behaviour
CHOOSE YOURSELF – Making strong choices and being your best self
- Expressing emotions appropriately to the situation and time
- Regulating emotions and shifting mood
- Using consequential thinking to make strong choices
- Choosing thoughts, feelings and actions to create new patterns of behaviour
- Use positive self talk to overcome challenges
- Being your best self
GIVE OF YOURSELF – Creating a better world through kindness and care
- Showing empathy and compassion for others
- Compromising, cooperating and problem-solving to get along with others
- Having the courage to be an active bystander
- Valuing the rights and opinions of others
- Showing care and concern for the greater good and the world around you
