Even in the smallest interactions, we are always educating the heart. ~Leafe

Emotional education is the underpinning of heart-centered living.  Cultivating an emotionally intelligent society is rooted in teachable skills, but those skills begin with the big people of the world.  What we model matters. 

It is the right of every individual, including children, to feel safe having, expressing, and processing emotions in a healthy way.  Developing emotional acuity and language helps us communicate and connect on a deeper level, allowing each of us to be seen for the whole of who we are.  Healthy emotional environments help foster resilience, self-esteem, and better coping, self-regulation, and decision-making skills.  

Please consider reading the groundbreaking book, Permission to Feel, by Dr. Marc Brackett, emotion researcher, Yale professor, and Director of Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence.  (Click book to purchase.)

Dr. Brackett is the co-creator of the free How We Feel app. It provides emotional education, strategies, and develops emotional awareness using the Mood Meter. This app has allowed my family to pinpoint difficult emotions and help us make breakthroughs in understanding the emotions behind trying situations and conversations. As a family, it has also allowed us to understand each other and connect on a dee[er level.  (Click left icon link for Apple.  Click right icon link for Android)

Dr. Brackett is also the lead developer of RULER (an acronym for the five skills of emotional intelligence: Recognizing, Understanding, Labeling, Expressing, and Regulating), an evidence based approach to social and emotional learning that has been adopted by over 5,000 schools across the globe.

Please visit marcbrackett.com for more information. You can also find Dr. Brackett’s webcast, Dealing with Feelings at youtube.com/@marcbrackett.

Please encourage school leaders to visit rulerapproach.org for more information about school programs, because…