Permission to Feel
June 01, 2021
Appears in June 2021: School Administrator.
The pathway for education leaders to build inner resilience in troubled times begins with applying emotional intelligence.
Our emotions are a big part — maybe the biggest part — of what makes us human. Decades of research shows that emotions drive our attention, memory and learning; influence our decision making; affect our mental and physical health; shape the quality of our relationships; and impact our everyday workplace performance.
Yet many of us go through life trying hard to pretend otherwise.
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Author
About the Author
Marc Brackett is director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, a professor in the Yale Child Study Center in New Haven, Conn., and author of Permission To Feel.
Additional Resources
The Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence is part of the Yale School of Medicine’s Child Study Center.
The center offers training to educational leaders, teachers and school staff to support the systemic implementation of SEL and to develop those skills in families and out-of-school time settings.
Working with both district-level and preK-12 school-level teams, the center applies a systemic approach known as RULER to help educators understand the value of emotions, build the skills of emotional intelligence and create and maintain positive emotional climates.
More details are available at www.rulerapproach.org.
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