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Feel, Name, Choose: emotional intelligence training for everyday life
Six short lessons on what emotional intelligence really means, noticing emotions in your body, naming them, pausing before you react, reading others, and saying what you need.
About this course
Emotional intelligence training: understand and manage emotions.
Starter · About 1 hour of learning · 6 lessons · 14 quick checks · 1 download
Who it's for
Adults who want practical skills for noticing, naming and managing emotions, and responding well to other people.
How it works
6 guided lessons in your browser, with worked examples, exercises and a quick check after each lesson. Progress is saved in this browser only, and you can restart at any time.
Sources we rely on
20 published sources, mostly regulators and official bodies, listed below so you can check the original guidance yourself.
By the end you can
- Explain the four abilities in the standard definition of emotional intelligence
- Identify your own early physical signs of strong emotions
- Name feelings precisely and use a pause plan before reacting
- Check other people’s feelings with open questions and say-backs
- Express feelings and needs with “I” statements, and know when to get help
Downloads
- Emotional skills practice journal .docxFull versions of the course exercises: starting point, body map, feelings words and a seven-day check-in, pause plans, empathy scenarios, rewrites and a basics tracker.
Rules by country
Learning time
About 1 hour of learning. May count towards your CPD or professional development; check your professional body's rules. Estimated from reading time, exercises, quick checks and downloads.
Sources
Check the originals.
Drafted with AI assistance and run through automated quality and source checks. How these courses are made. Spotted an error or out-of-date rule? Send a correction.
Not therapy or counselling. If you're struggling, please contact a support service. In an emergency call 000 (AU), 999 (UK), 911 (US/Canada) or 111 (NZ). Anywhere else, call your local emergency number.
- Emotional intelligence (APA Dictionary of Psychology) · American Psychological Association
- Anger management · healthdirect (Australian Government-funded health information service)
- Stress · healthdirect (Australian Government-funded health information service)
- Get help with anger · NHS (UK)
- Emotional Wellness Toolkit · National Institutes of Health (US)
- Putting feelings into words produces therapeutic effects in the brain (news release, 21 June 2007, on Lieberman et al., Psychological Science) · UCLA Newsroom
- Relationships and communication · Better Health Channel (Victorian Government, Australia)
- Assertiveness · Better Health Channel (Victorian Government, Australia)
- What to do if you think someone is struggling (listening tips) · Samaritans (UK and Ireland)
- Little tips for helping someone open up · Samaritans (UK and Ireland)
- How to ask R U OK? · R U OK? (Australia)
- Lifeline crisis support: 13 11 14 · Lifeline Australia
- Contact a Samaritan · Samaritans (UK and Ireland)
- 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline · 988 Lifeline (US)
- 1800RESPECT: national domestic, family and sexual violence counselling service · 1800RESPECT (Australian Government-funded)
- National Domestic Abuse Helpline · National Domestic Abuse Helpline (England, run by Refuge)
- National Domestic Violence Hotline · The Hotline (US)
- Triple Zero · Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts (AU)
- Contact the police · GOV.UK
- National 911 Program · 911.gov, NHTSA (US)
Publisher
Who publishes this course.
Published by trainyourself.org, a trading name of Combine TRS Pty Ltd (ABN 42 112 983 678), Brisbane, Australia.
How it's made: drafted with AI assistance from published official, public-health, university and support-service guidance (general education, not counselling or therapy), then run through automated quality checks against our course depth standard and automated source checks that match each rule to its official source, listed above. The course guide is an AI presenter and is labelled as one. Read how these courses are made.
Last updated:
General education, not counselling, therapy, medical or legal advice. If you are struggling, contact one of the support services named in this course; in an emergency, call your local emergency number. Spotted an error or an out-of-date rule? Send us a correction.
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