Emotional Intelligence Training & Research Institute (EITRI)
Reflections: The 2010 Institute for Emotional Intelligence
April 2010
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Greetings!
Thanks
to the individual efforts of so many people, the 7th Annual Institute
for Emotional Intelligence (EI) at El Tropicano Riverwalk Hotel was a
positive and rewarding experience for all of us. We would like to
extend our appreciation to those who participated in the EI Leadership
and Advisory Working Group (EI LAW Group) and worked so tirelessly to
make this year's conference the best it could be. While there were many
who helped in special ways, we would like to mention specifically the
special efforts of Dr. Robert Zeigler and Dr. Robert Vela from San
Antonio College;
Dr. Thomas Baynum, Dr. Rito Silva, and Michelle
Duran from Coastal Bend College; Beverly Gammill from Galviston
College; Dr. Santos Martinez from McLennan Community College; and
Richard Fessler, Joe Fisher, Dr. Pearl Dominguez, and Allison Soret
from Hallmark College for their help and support in making this year's
EI Week so meaningful, comfortable, and enjoyable.
The annual
conference provides an opportunity for us all to come together and
share research, programs, and projects which use emotional intelligence
to build healthy people, organizations, and communities. We want to
personally thank you, also, for your interest and support of our work.
Your participation and contributions have improved our work and provide
a network of friendship relationships that continues to encourage us.
In
2011 we will look forward to welcoming you back for the 8th Annual
Institute for Emotional Intelligence once again in San Antonio, Texas.
Historically the EI conference has been held in mid to late February to
preclude interference with our state's K-12 testing, as well as other
conferences that we know to be of interest and important to colleagues.
Therefore, we are planning the 8th Annual Institute for Emotional
Intelligence to convene the week of February 21, 2011. Please pencil in
your calendar and plan to participate meaningfully in 2011!
We
hope you enjoy the newsletter. Please forward it to others on your
email list who would be interested in the transformative approach of
emotional intelligence in training, education, and research.
Warmest personal regards.
Darwin
Gary
Rick
Darwin Nelson Gary Low Rick Hammett
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Fifth Personal Excellence Award Presented to Dr. Art Linskey ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 The
Personal Excellence Award (PEA) was created to recognize
individuals who have made special contributions to extend or sustain
the education model of emotional intelligence. The first award was
presented to Margo Murray in 2007 for her ongoing use of the Personal
Skills Map (Nelson & Low, 1978) in business, as well as her
long-term leadership and development of her professional mentoring
model. The same year, a second PEA was presented to Richard Hammett for
his hard work surrounding the conference and numerous individual
contributions to our EI theory and models. In 2008, the 3rd PEA was
presented to Dr. Seymour Epstein for his Cognitive-Experiential
Self-Theory (CEST) and the impact that his life's work has had in
shaping our education and transformative approach to EI theory and
practice. Last year the 4th PEA was presented to Mr. Arun Balakrishnan
for his leadership in facilitating the meaningful growth of a major
corporation using EI, and then allowing the story to be told in a book (Fuelling Success: How Emotional Intelligence Helped HPCL and its Employees to Grow) co-authored by Ashis Sen, Darwin Nelson, and Surya Rao A.
This
year, the 5th PEA was presented to Dr. Art Linskey for his life-long
devotion to developing and modeling a healthy way of being. Because Dr.
Linskey was not able to attend this year's conference due to health,
his award was accepted by his close friends from the US-Mexico Border
Health Association and Binational Mental Health Special Interest Group.
Pictured from left in the above photograph are Delia Villarreal, Maria
Diaz, Darwin Nelson, Cristina Penña, and Mirthala Leal. Quoted below,
Dr. Linskey's touching acceptance letter was read aloud by Dr. Nelson
during the con- ference reception and award presentation on Thursday
evening February 25, 2010.
At the start of the 21st century, I was finishing 75 years as a member
of the human species on planet earth. During the early years of my
life, certain questions observed me. "Why don't we humans relate to
each other differently than we do?" and "Why do we separate into
populations each of which thinks is better than the others?"
Against my parents advice I would, as a child, enter into neighborhoods
where the languages, customs, and foods were different from those of my
population. I found the best food among the Italian immigrants. When
members of my Irish immigrant population would ask my mother, "Why is
Arthur like this?" she would answer ,"Nobody knows."
Later
in life, as a public school counselor in New York, I visited most of
the families of the African American students and went to the 'black
barbershop.' I was a strange white man but was gradually accepted
into the Black neighborhood. Later when I was a university professor I
applied to be a Fulbright visiting professor in Chile. All Yankees were
accepted and I related to the Chileans, not to North Americans. Our
first son was born in Santiago, Chile. We considered ourselves Chilean
but were sent back to the U.S. by the coming of the advent of the
Communist Government. We belonged to the wrong population. Dr. Abraham
Maslow helped me in the 1970s with his concept of Gemeinschaft (praying
for all humankind) and being loved, relating not to population
membership, but to being on quality with the other person or human.
In
the 1980s and 1990s, Carl Sagan helped me to relate to the Cosmos, of
which planet earth was one of billions. Perhaps there are species in
the universe that are intelligent enough not to separate themselves
into populations which are unfriendly to each other. Before he died in
1996, Dr. Sagan identified three human personalities which we need to
overcome. 1.) Dominance hierarchies, 2.) Ethnocentrism, and 3.)
Xenophobia (fear of anything strange or different).
During
the 1st decade of the 21st Century, Drs. Darwin Nelson and Gary Low
helped me into a new perception in Emotional Intelligence as a guide in
freeing ourselves from the three human properties identified by Dr.
Sagan as the inhibitors of intelligent human relations. I sought to
involve professionals from other populations, specifically our
neighbors in Mexico, in my quest. They are all involved in this
conference and I am grateful for your recognition of all of us.
Arthur
Linskey, Ph.D.
Thank you, Dr. Linskey, for all we have learned from you.
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EI Certification Workshop Scheduled for June 2-3, 2010 in San Antonio, TX
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 This
year there were several requests for additional workshops from
conference and seminar participants whose busy work schedules precluded
attending the pre-conference EI certification workshop. In response and
by popular demand, a second workshop is being offered the first week in
June at the Moody Learning Center on the campus of San Antonio
College.
The positive assessment and emotional learning
system presented during the workshop are research derived and brain
based. How to model and develop emotional intelligence for students and
clients is the focus of the workshop. The assessments and emotional
learning models presented in the workshop are used worldwide to develop
healthy people, organizations, and communities.
The workshop
leaders, Darwin Nelson, Ph.D. and Gary Low, Ph.D., are consulting
psychologists and provide EI training and executive coaching services
worldwide. Dr. Nelson is a diplomate of the American Psychotherapy
Association and Patron of the Forum for Emotional Intelligence Learning
(FEIL) in India. Dr. Low is Professor Emeritus of Texas A&M
University-Kingsville and also a Patron of the FEIL. Gary and Darwin
are life-long friends and have been researching and developing their
education-based theory of EI since 1977.
I wanted you to know how fabulous the 2-day workshop was. I learned a
great deal that will facilitate my work in coaching Latino students and holding
productive EI/Coaching Workshops with Colleges//Universities in Connecticut.
Gracias for the opportunity to establish such a great network of EI
minded professionals! ~ Barbara Candales, February 2010
For more information or to register for the June workshop, please contact
Rick Hammett at rick@eitri.org.
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7th Annual Conference Highlights
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 An interesting and informative general session program was provided during the conference by
Mr. Juan Mejia and Mr. Jose Cruz. The program, Emotional Intelligence to Institutional Intelligence,
chronicled the application of EI learning for sustaining positive
change and constructive organizational culture within an institution of
higher learning. For their proactive stance and original ideas about
extending the education model of EI, the program deserves a highlight!
Both
presenters work in leadership positions in South Texas College (STC), a
college that has welcomed and met the challenge of unprecedented growth
with flexibility, originality, and excellence. Mr. Mejia is the Vice
President for Academic Affairs and
Mr. Cruz is the Vice President
for Information Services and Planning. During their presentation, Juan
and Jose shared key elements about the journey of STC as a school that
has infused EI assessments and content to improve student and college
success. Integral to their message was how the school has strengthened
its mission of building a college going culture by becoming a learning
organization where students are heroes and faculty, staff, and
administrators strive to model emotional intelligence.
Additional conference highlights will be shared in future newsletters!
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Reflections & Congratulations
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 I really learned so much that I am now
practicing on a personal level.
~ Linda Merritt, JP
I enjoyed every minute of my stay in San
Antonio. Both the workshop and conference
were quite educative and the materials
provided will be of help in talking up further
research in the area of EI.
~ Parminder Walia
Congratulations
to Dr. Rito Silva and his family on their move and new job! Rito
recently started his new job as Dean of Students at Lone Star
College-CyFair in Houston. Read more.
If you have news that you would like to share in this forum, please send suggestions to Gary Low at gary@eitri.org.
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