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This pack contains the highest-rated emotional intelligence tools that our practitioners use for their own professional development, in coaching, for teaching, or in a therapeutic setting.

Practitioners have reported that these exercises have led to breakthrough moments in the careers and personal lives of their clients.

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Emotional Intelligence Exercises

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17 Essential tools to better help others.

This package includes 17 practical tools covering a wide range of emotional intelligence skills including:

emotional regulation | expressing emotions | exploring action tendencies | emotional avoidance | self-awareness | empathy

All tools are rooted in science and include references, practical advice and a detailed description of how to use the tool.

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Overview

You will be equipped with the following tools:

  • Coloring In For Emotional Clarity

    Allow clients to connect to their emotions and gain clarity around the different emotional states experienced in a given situation.

  • Exploring Action Tendencies

    Increase awareness of action tendencies that result from both positive and negative emotions.

  • Extracting Needs From Emotions

    Identify the personal needs that are satisfied as indicated by the experience of positive and negative emotions.

  • ​Healing Through Writing

    Help clients clarify the distinction between suppression and acceptance of experiences.

  • ​Pushing the Ball Under Water Metaphor

    Help participants identify their orientation toward work as a job, a career, or a calling.

  • Positive Emotion Brainstorm

    Generate possible ideas for your client to increase positive emotions in daily life.

  • Reading Facial Expressions of Emotions

    Help clients develop the important life skill of reading the emotions of others by deciphering facial expressions.

  • Ripple Effects from Emotions

    Increase awareness of the consequences of expressing emotions to others.

  • Self-reflecting on Emotional Intelligence

    Help clients to take a closer look at their own emotional skills and to systematically assess these skills through an emotionally intelligent lens.

  • The Consequences of Experiential Avoidance

    Make a client aware of the long-term effects and pitfalls of experiential avoidance.

  • The Feeling Dictionary

    Increase the client’s level of emotional awareness by asking to define feelings or emotions in terms of the thoughts that usually accompany them.

  • The Feeling Wheel

    Train people to be more detailed in describing their feelings and recognize emotions with more accuracy.

  • The Neuroanatomy of an Emotion

    Teach clients the neuroanatomy of emotions to (1) help them understand what is occurring during emotional distress and (2) learn how to effectively reduce this stress based on these insights.

  • Using Music to Express Feelings

    Facilitate clients in commutating their feelings and concerns by using music as a medium to “translate” personal experiences.

  • Wise Mind Chair Work:

    Help people identify what their personal triggers (hot buttons) are – and to effectively address them – so that they can respond more effectively the next time they feel triggered.

  • Workplace Comfort Zone Analysis

    Introduce clients to the three states of mind depicted in the DBT wise mind model through education and chair work.

  • The Emotion Meter

    Help clients build the skills of recognizing and labeling emotions.

  • “This package has contributed measurably and immeasurably to the well-being of people with whom I interact. Their lives are clearer of purpose and more fulfilling in outcomes as well as processes”.

    Stephen R. Mills | Corporate Trainer
  • “This is a great resource for my coaching and counseling work as well as for presentations I give. It’s great to have everything packaged in convenient ways for client use and keeps me abreast of Positive Psychology developments”.

    Dr. Richelle Anderson | Clinical Psychologist
  • “Thanks so much for these wonderful resources. I’m a MAPP student at University of East London & a wellness practitioner for the past 20+years. These tools are an essential part of my box of tricks when developing a program or workshop – thank you!”

    Tara Killen | Executive Coach

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About the author

Hugo Alberts (Ph.D.) has over 15 years’ experience teaching psychology to thousands of people at universities, companies, healthcare facilities, and government agencies.

Currently, his focus is developing science-based tools and exercises to help other professionals apply positive psychology confidently and expertly.

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