A Heart-Centered, Emotional Literacy Technique, Using Transactional Analysis, by Claude Steiner Ph.D. Abstract: Emotional literacy, with love as the guiding emotion, is a undeniable requirement for a healthy physical and psychological life. Transactional analysis provides the concepts (strokes, the stroke economy) and advanced techniques (Opening the Heart exercises) to teach people the essential skills required […]
Emotional Literacy
What is the Difference Between Emotional Intelligence and Emotional Literacy?
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”]Emotional literacy is different from emotional intelligence (EI) in that it emphasizes the emotion of love, cooperation and the common good which are ignored in definitions of emotional intelligence. That is why we say that emotional literacy (EmLiT) is heart-centered emotional intelligence. The distinction is important as I will […]
Emotional Literacy; Heart-Centered Intelligence.
Emotional intelligence, “can matter as much as IQ” in determining a person’s well-being and effectiveness in life. Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence. (1997) Emotional literacy is defined as emotional intelligence with a heart. In the book Emotional Literacy I offer a love-centered approach to emotional intelligence, developed over the last 35 years, which I call Emotional […]
Stroking: What’s Love Got To Do With It?
by Claude Steiner Abstract: The author attempts to answer the question: “What does transactional analysis have in common with body-centered, somatic points of view?” Transactional Analysis began as an Adult centered and rational theory but with the introduction of the concept of strokes Berne opened the way, perhaps unwittingly, for a somatic—Child and body centered—investigation […]
My latest book: Emotional Literacy
Emotional Literacy; Intelligence with a Heart. Personhood Press, 2003 (If you want to buy a hardcover or paper back edition of the original, hard cover 1997 version of the book click here. The original 1997 version of the book is also available in Chinese, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Danish and Dutch translations) In the […]
The Emotional Awareness Scale
Since the publication of Daniel Goleman’s book Emotional Intelligence (1995), emotional intelligence has passed from being a welcome, fresh way of thinking to becoming a number of widely disparate movements. The largest of these movements was a consultant’s “growth business” with scores of companies offering to evaluate and improve people’s Emotional Quotient (EQ) in the […]
