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This book heightens readers' awareness of the importance of emotional intelligence and how it impacts our lives. It inspires parents, teachers and school leaders to learn more about emotional intelligence as a process of self-improvement, relational skills, and to help our students to develop emotional intelligence from an early stage of their lives. There are four parts in the book. Part 1 explains the importance of emotional intelligence in every aspect of our lives. It presents models and theories of emotional intelligence and explains how our emotions control our mind, body and spirit. Part 2 gives insights into how emotions play a significant role in our relationships with others. Part 3 takes the reader from family to the workplace and highlights the importance of becoming more aware of our emotions at work and how we relate to others. Part 4 emphasises the importance of helping our students to develop essential emotional intelligence to face this increasingly complex and challenging world.
List of contents
Part I. Understanding EI and Emotions.- Chapter 1. What is Emotional Intelligence?.- Chapter 2. Emotions and Neuroscience.- Chapter 3. The Functions of Emotions.- Chapter 4. How to Boost your Emotional Intelligence (EI).- Part II. Emotional Intelligence and Relationships.- Chapter 5. Family relationships and EI (an overall introduction).- Chapter 6. Marital relationships and EI.-Chapter 7. Parent-child relationships and EI.- Chapter 8. Siblings Relationships and EI.- Chapter 9. Peer relationships and EI.- Chapter 10. Our non-human family members.- Part III: Emotional Intelligence and Workplace success.- Chapter 11. Workplace emotions.- Chapter 12. Self and other awareness in the workplace.- Chapter 13. Leadership and EI.- Chapter 14. Practice guide and strategies to increase workplace EI.- Part IV. Emotional Intelligence and School Education.- Chapter 15. EI and mental health in children and adolescents.- Chapter 16. Teacher Emotions.- Chapter 17. Emotional Intelligence and the School Community.- Chapter 18. What to Teach and How to Increase students' Emotional Intelligence.
About the author
Dr. Mabel Gonzales has over thirty-five years of experience as a classroom teacher, teacher educator, school executive, education consultant on special needs and inclusive education, and leadership coach. Mabel specialises in building the capacity of future-focused educators, teachers and school leaders to foster an understanding of the interplay of educational theories and practice. As a leadership coach, she helps school leaders and business executives to expand their perspectives on self and organisational development. She guides her clients to solve complex problems by adopting systems thinking and developing skills to understand and meet the needs of different stakeholders. She coaches her clients to develop a heightened self- and other-awareness through emotional intelligence and to build needed relationships to attain workplace alignment and personal success. Her extensive practice and experience gained through working with different school communities gives her credibility in her authorship of this book.
