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At last a book that explains
in a simple and practical way what Emotional Intelligence
is and how it is an essential intelligence for people
who work with people, who want to make a real difference
in their communities. This book will support you in
your endeavours to:
• change behaviour patterns and choose to behave
more in line with your own values
• change some of the roles you play and choose
the ‘you’ that you really want to be
• make the kind of difference you always wanted
with your friends, family and pupils
• model the above and support children to develop
this intelligence for themselves.
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: Emotional intelligence
2 Internal and external environment
3 Understanding and managing behaviour
4 The limbic system
5 Fear and love
6 The emotional effects of grief
7 Connecting with the children in our care
8 Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation: its effect on
behaviour and learning
9 Self-esteem
10 Creating identity: knowing myself and choosing who
I am
11 Optimism and pessimism: their effects on learning
12 Spirituality and spiritual intelligence
13 Activities to develop Emotional Intelligence
14 Activities to support changes in behaviour patterns
and clear communication
15 Activities to develop intrinsic motivation
16 Activities to develop a sense of identity
References
Acknowledgements
Back Cover
This is a book to be experienced. It takes the theory
behind Emotional Intelligence and ‘walks you through
it’ in a comfortable, supportive, yet challenging
way. When you engage with the philosophy of the book
and the activities in it, you will discover more about
yourself and realise you have much greater choice about
your effect on those around you, adults as well as children,
than you ever believed.
Reading this book leads you to the realisation that
you can fundamentally change a child’s life by
being the ‘real’ you.
It provides:
• Activities to support the development of children’s
Emotional Intelligence
It examines:
• How we all change, from being children who felt
capable of anything to adults with many limitations
• How we can remove the limitations, by changing
our beliefs
• How we can change the patterns that are having
a negative effect on our lives and on the lives of others
• How to be an adult who has no ‘buttons
to press’
• How our external environment is affected by
our internal environment
Author
Catherine Corrie has worked
with children of all ages: as a playgroup leader for
under-fives; as a teacher and senior manager in primary
and middle schools; and as a youth worker with adolescents.
In addition to this experience and that gained as a
mother and grandmother, her writing draws upon her work
in Counselling, NLP and Personal Development Coaching
and from the training she provides in Accelerated Learning,
Anger Management and Emotional Intelligence.
She delivers a variety of training, both nationally
and internationally, most recently in the USA and Dubai,
under the umbrella title of ‘Developing an Emotionally
Intelligent School’.
She has brought the same enjoyment and enthusiasm that
categorises her training to her writing.
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