Emotional Intelligence

The Impact of Social-Emotional Intelligence on Adult Relationships

Relationships are not easy.  As people, we learn how to navigate relationships using skills we gathered from our own lived experiences and childhood examples. Which can be part of the problem. 

Making and keeping friends, being in healthy romantic relationships and being able to work well with a wide range of people are all skills that we need in adulthood. However many adults have never been actively taught any of these skills. 

Luckily there are options for helping adults improve the quality of their interpersonal skills. This is where social-emotional learning (SEL) comes in. 

Why Social-emotional learning should be at the Heart of Your School Curriculum

School classrooms have become very complex environments. And that’s without referring to challenges like funding, curriculum changes and managing different learning styles.

Screen time, social media, and long hours of gaming are eroding things like basic social skills, the ability to make eye contact and build and maintain friendships. Anxiety levels are high, self-esteem levels are low and those are just the ones that make it to class.

Leaving educators trying to balance many complicated levels of sensitive and diverse needs. 

The bottom line is, that in terms of essential social intelligence skills, students just don’t have what they need.

So how can we help them?