Welcome to the Applied EQ Group's Learning Library!
Emotional intelligence is the future of education.
What is emotional intelligence?
In a nutshell, emotional intelligence is me living my best possible life--as a professional, as a leader, as a spouse, as a parent, as a daughter/son, as a neighbor, as a friend--because I...
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know myself. That means that I am aware of my thoughts, my feelings, my personality, and my stress. These are all aspects of my inner world, and I can think of them as fuel that drives my behavior. It can be scary to look within, but as Joseph Campbell reminds us, the cave we fear to enter often holds the treasure we seek.
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regulate myself. Once I become aware of my inner-world (my thoughts, feelings, personality and stress), how do I manage them? In other words, how do I connect that inner-world fuel to behaviors that will be life giving and tonic instead of life sucking and toxic to the world around me? We find tremendous personal power as we grow this skill.
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know you. Knowing and regulating myself centers me. When I'm centered, I'm positioned to ask, 'How are you? What are you thinking and feeling?' Empathy is a powertool that allows me to see with your eyes, hear with your ears, feel with your heart, and think with your mind.
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connect with you. Now that I am centered and have a sense of your inner world, I have the best possibility to connect with you. Interpersonal skills are another power tool. They allow us to really get to know and honor each other.
Here's the feedback we're getting...
“Finally. Professional development that goes beyond 'this-is-what-is-required-of-you' to 'this-one-is-for-you'. These courses will not just help me in my role as an educator, but in all areas of my life. I feel seen and heard.”
Brenda Rogers, South Bend School Corporation
“This has been one of the smoothest and best courses I’ve seen.”
--Aaron Sandoval, Cypress Fairbanks Independent School District veteran educator and instructional designer
Ready to start growing your EQ? Let the journey begin!
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$75.99How to Navigate Stress Like a Hero
If only stress weren’t so stressful. There is good news, though: stress doesn’t have to be the enemy!
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$75.99The Neuropsychology of Trauma and How It Impacts Learning
Knowing the root of trauma and how we can cultivate a well-functioning classroom is an essential task for educators. This workshop gives participants insight into the workings of the sympathetic (fight or flight) and parasympathetic nervous systems.
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$75.99How to Build Relationships That Work
Most of us already know that relationships matter in any field, but particularly in education.
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$19.99The Mind Series
Managing our mental game is a key component of managing our stress. This series offers us practical strategies to help us understand how we can master our thoughts to keep us from spiraling into the cycle of survival mode.
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$19.99The Body Series
When our bodies hold on to adreline and cortizol (stress hormones), we feel fatigued, stiff and achy. This series shows us how to mindfully release that tension from our bodies.
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$19.99The Breath Series
We've been breathing so long, we don't even need to think about it. That's good-- we have plenty of other things to occupy our mental bandwidth. But when we do think about breathing, minfulbreathwork becomes a powerful stress management strategy.
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$75.99What to Know About Conflict and Communication
Conflict occurs when we are in a relationship with others. In fact, the hallmark of a healthy relationship is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to successfully resolve it.
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$75.99The Stages of Escalation and How to Manage Them
We know that the most effective learning is relationally based. The same is true when we intervene with students in crisis: the deeper we’ve established relationships with students, the more power we have to guide them to calm and safety.
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$75.99Knowing My Personality and Emotional Intelligence
Self-awareness and self-regulation are key aspects of emotional intelligence, and a significant part of what we need to know and regulate is our personality style, which is embedded with inherent strengths and weaknesses.
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$75.99How to Nurture Wholistic Wellbeing
Educators are nurtures, which means they make tremendous sacrifices to empower their students to grow and develop. That is a significant part of why education is commonly considered the noblest profession.
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$75.99How to Manage Emotions
When students manage emotion, behavior manages itself. Since emotions are a powerful driver of behavior, behavior management strategies that don't empower students with emotional literacy will do little to help students gain insight.
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$75.99How to Escape Survival Mode
Each day presents new challenges for educators in the pandemic: student attendance, staff shortages, concerned parents, and the demands of our personal lives can leave us feeling like we’re just living to get through the day (or the hour!).
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$75.99Mental Health First Aid in the Classroom
We don’t have to be licensed mental health professionals to provide basic mental health first aid in the classroom.
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$75.99The Stages of Community—How to Create Effective Group Dynamics in the Workplace
We may not be uniform—in race, politics, gender, generation, etc.—but we can be unified in love and service.