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Preconference:

May
4-5
Session I: The Dynamic Assessment and Development of Emotional Intelligence with South Africa's leading EQ authority, J-P Dupreez. (more)

Session II: The Emotionally Intelligent Classroom, with Catherine Corrie, Master-trainer for the UK Heartskills Coach. (more)

Ongoing:

- resource center and National Professional Resources bookstore
- HeartMath Freeze Framer station
- emotional literacy & arts room with Enchanté's "Mrs. Megatroyd" from Wales.
- build your brain activity center

Fri, May 5

8:30 - 9 continental breakfast (included)
9 - 10:30 keynote panel The Vision of Emotional Intelligence - EQ is Essential

    Karen McCown
    Harold Bloomfield
    Ayman Sawaf

10:45-12:00 -- focus sessions: Claude Steiner, Ph.D. Emotional Intelligence and Emotional Literacy: Learn how emotional literacy skills for affective exchange, emotional dialogue, and empathic responsibility can be taught. (more)

Jeanne Segal, Ph.D. Working With Soul: Using Emotions to Connect Body, Mind, and Spirit. Awaken your seat of creativity, instinct, invention, intuitive knowing. (more)

Robert Cooper, Ph.D. Executive EQ: Learn why leaders around the world are turning to emotional intelligence to revitalize organizations.
(more)

11-12 "Private conversations" (2 speakers)
12:00-1:15 sit-down lunch (included)
1:45 - 3:15 keynote panel: The Business of Emotional Intelligence: EQ at work
3:30 - 5:00 -- focus sessions Six Seconds - Freedman, Jensen: Know Yourself, Choose Yourself, Give Yourself: Bring emotional wisdom to life in a session that models the power of EQ teaching. (more)

Brian Friedlander, Psy.D. & Steven Tobias, Ph.D. Emotionally Intelligent Parenting: Tools for parents and professionals to communicate with children. (more)

Harold H. Bloomfield, MD. Making Peace with Your Past: Letting go does not mean denying, ignoring, or discrediting the past; it means resolving, releasing, and healing it. (more)

Ayman Sawaf and Dale Ironson, Business EQ as a Path to Self-Realization: Infuse your business and your life with qualities of high emotional intelligence to increase profitablity, productivity, and purpose. (more)

Daniel Gil'Adí, Ph.D. Leadership, Adversity and Emotional Intelligence: The Latin American Experience. In an environment of social and economic challenge, emotional intelligence is both absolutley vital and difficult to achieve. (more)

4-5 "Private conversations" (2 speakers)
5-6 Networking and activity centers

Saturday, May 6

8:30 - 9 continental breakfast (included)
9 - 10:30 keynote panel: Learning and Teaching Emotional Intelligence: EQ in school
10:45-12:00 -- focus sessions: Peter Salovey, Ph.D. Emotional Intelligence: Theory, Measurement, and Application. An overview of the concept, history, measurement – and the use and misuse of the term. (more)

Connie Blakemore, Ed.D. & Beth Kirkpatrick. With My Own Eyes: Creating a visual picture of the Body-Mind connection, demonstrated by our new Heart Rate Monitor Technology. (more)

Sirah Vettese, Ph.D. The Intimacy of Emotional Transformation: Insight and healing tools for positive change in intimate relationships at the spiritual level. (more)

Alice Ray. Computers and Social-Emotional Learning: Opportunities and limitations of using technology to teach EQ. (more)

Esther Orioli. Measuring and Optimizing Human Intelligence at Work: Through our profiling, we design interventions to teach specific competencies for personal and professional development. (more)

11-12 "Private conversations" (2 speakers)
12:00-1:15 sit-down lunch (included)
1:45 - 3:15 keynote panel Emotional Fitness: EQ in daily life
3:30 - 5:00 -- focus sessions Jonathan Cohen, Ph.D. Social and Emotional Education: The five core principles that characterize effective social and emotional educational programs, and a review of opportunities for educators’ training. (more)

Harriett Arnold, Ph.D. & Laura Frey, Ph.D. Dynamic and Positive Classrooms: Understanding the relationship of student and educator affective needs. (more)

Candace Pert, Ph.D. Emotions are the Nexus Between Body, Mind, and Spirit: The molecules of emotion form a “second nervous system” that integrates human beings in themselves and with others. (more)

Debra Niehoff, Ph.D. Process, Not Program, What the Brain Tells Us About Violence: The “lessons of brain research” have the potential to change the way we as a society think about the problem of violence. (more)

Bruce Cryer. Chaos To Coherence, Advancing Emotional and Organizational Intelligence Through Inner Quality Management: A biological research presentation about how HeartMath tools build peak performance for individuals and organizations. (more)

International Panel, EQ Around the World: Leaders from Six Seconds’ International Network will facilitate a discussion of approaches to building EQ in countries around the world.

4-5 "Private conversations" (2 speakers)
5-6 Networking and activity centers
7-9 EQ Festival of Techniques -- music, beverages, no-host bar, and a room full of "EQ competency stations" where delegates and presenters share "gems" of EQ activities, network, and celebrate!

Sunday, May 7

9:30 - 10 continental breakfast (included)
10 - 12 -- focus sessions: Barbara Porro. EQ In Action, Conflict Resolution in the Elementary Classroom: Turn ordinary classroom conflict into natural opportunities to teach EQ. (more)

Sara Armstrong, Ph.D. Resources for Emotional Education: Website, books, videos, and other programs can be effective tools to integrate emotional education into the curriculum. (more)

Jackie Allen, Ed.D. Linking Emotional Intelligence to Student Learning: Emotional intelligence is central to student learning and the American School Counselor Association’s national standards help build those skills. (more)

Howard Martin. New Intelligence for New Times: Learning how to tune into the heart provides a key to managing emotions and developing emotional intelligence – to improve performance, health, and relationships. (more)

Ann McCormick, Ph.D. Elaborating Emotional Intelligence Instruction: We will work together to develop a “content architecture” for an emotional intelligence curriculum which ties development to the beauty, structure, and thinking behind EQ. (more)

11-12 "Private conversations" (2 speakers)
12:00-1:15 sit-down lunch (included)
1:30- 3:00 closing keynote, Martin Seligman: Learned Optimism and Positive Psychology (more)
3-4 Networking and Departure

Schedule is subject to change without notice.

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