Achieving Emotional Literacy

Within the emotional intelligence topic, this book focuses on the intrapersonal dimensions. The writing is weak and the content banal. The overall message feels aligned to a very self-centered pyschology. I was happy to consider the concepts with an open mind and glad to learn that emotional intelligence can be learned. But the incessant theme of "strokes" became tiresome, and a quick scan of the rest of the last half seemed to indicate more of the same. I elected not to finish, which is rare.

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"I am a clinical psychologist and transactional analyst. Since 1965 I have studied, written, taught and lectured about the importance of, and relationship between, rational information and the emotions--especially love -- and how these two factors affect our personal power. "
"I have developed a program for emotional literacy training using transactional analysis principles and methods."

Although Transactional Analysis has had it's day, yet there is a lot of good stuff in this book.

Page 25 tells us that "Training can help you move up the scale of emotional intelligence, which consists of five skills:
1. Knowing your own feelings:
2. Having a sense of empathy:
3. Learning to manage show more your emotions:
4. Repairing emotional damage:
5. PUtting it all together:

The heart of the book is probably:
The Ten Commandments of Emotional Literacy (on page 187)
1. Thou shalt not power play.
2. Thou shalt not allow yourself to be power played
3. Thou shalt not lie by omission or commission.
4. Thou shalt stand up for how you feel and what you want.
5. Thou shalt respect the feelings and wishes of others.
6. Thou shalt look for the validity in the ideas of others.
7. Thou shalt apologize and make amends for your mistakes.
9. Thou shalt not accept false apologies.
10l Thou shalt follow these commandments according to your best judgement. (After all, they are not written in stone.) show less

> Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Steiner-LABC-des-emotions/1301511

> L'A.B.C. DES EMOTIONS, Développer son intelligence émotionnelle, de Cl. Steiner, Paul Perry - Ed. InterEditions. — L'éducation et les relations sociales ne prédisposent pas l'homme et la femme occidentales à bien contrôler leurs émotions. Or l'échec émotionnel répété est source de désespoir et de dépression, en revanche, des interactions satisfaisantes et prometteuses sont source d'optimisme, de courage et de puissance. Fondée sur l'Analyse Transactionnelle mise au point par le psychiatre Eric Berne, l'A.B.C. des émotions est largement expliqué, commenté et mis en situation dans cet ouvrage à la portée de tout public : professionnels de show more l'éducation, enseignants, formateurs. L'auteur propose successivement :
- Qu'est-ce que l'intelligence émotionnelle,
- Prendre conscience de ses émotions,
- S'alphabétiser émotionnellement,
- Ouvrir son coeur,
- Faire l'état des lieux ,
- Assumer ses responsabilités,
- Le guerrier émotionnel.
Très convaincant, ce livre tend à démontrer que la vraie puissance humaine relève de la bonne maîtrise émotionnelle qui redonne à chacun authenticité et confiance.
—Infos Yoga, (21), Janv./Févr. 1999, (p. 34) show less