Emotional Confidence

Managing your feelings without stifling your heart
A one day workshop by Gael Lindenfield and Malcolm Vandenburg

Being in harmony with the emotional side of yourself is an essential element of self-confidence. It is also one of the most important keys to being able to manage a pressurised life in a positive way.

How can we feel (or look) completely self-assured if we are worried about the possibility of losing emotional control? How can we feel confident in the face of challenge if we cannot trust ourselves to consistently maintain high levels of positive emotional energy to fuel us through the difficult times?

The publication of Daniel Goleman’s Emotional Confidence in the mid 90’s created a sudden upsurge in interest in the world of business, in the management of feeling. Leading edge companies began to question their recruitment and training policies, and inevitably, occupational psychologists started to develop psychometric tests to measure levels of EQ.

Now the subject has caught mass media attention and created an even wider interest. We are being consistently told that the modern world is emotionally illiterate and incompetent. Gael Lindenfield developed this Emotional Confidence building programme as a practical response to this justified concern.

Programme

• Welcome and Introduction
  
  
• What is Emotional confidence and how does it relate to EQ?
  - presentation and group discussion
  
  
• Why we need to develop Emotional Confidence
  - group exercise
  
  
• How our emotions work
  - presentation and Q & A
  
  
• How emotionally literate and strong am I?
  - self-questionnaire exercise and feedback
  
  
• Key ingredients of emotional health and how it is built and damaged
  - presentation and exercise
  
  
• Quick-fix strategies for emotional emergencies
  - presentation and practise exercise
  
  
• Into action
  - creating personal action plans for maintaining Emotional Confidence