Listeners of "Our Greatest Hour" RADIO Show! may recall Special Guest, Linda Lantieri, world-class educator, author of the book Building Emotional Intelligence: Techniques to Cultivate Inner Strength in Children, and founder of the Inner Resilience Program, a project spearheaded by this native New Yorker in downtown Manhattan grade schools immediately following September 11th.
As we observe September 11th in the coming week, let us remember how we do so informs our children's children's children's view of the event.
This month also marks the return to school with many parents and caregivers experiencing the backlash of the 'back to school blues' which the children under their care are suffering at increasingly alarming rates.
Many of us feel the intense pressure of living and working in uncertain times. Adults and young people alike are in need of a deeper sense of community and more opportunities to develop a capacity for meaning and purpose in our lives. We yearn for safe places and experiences that challenge us to, in Parker Palmer’s words, “live on the outside, the truth we know on the inside.”
What prevents us from doing so is the inner-generational weakness, or inability to successfully manage stress.
According to research from the Mind and Life Institute, the main causes for stress in children are: school work, family, peer socialization, and the destressors they seek outside of themselves such as TV and video games.
In Building Emotional Intelligence, pioneering educator Linda Lantieri joins forces with internationally renowned psychologist and Mind and Life Institute Board Member Daniel Goleman to help children respond to and rebound from stressful challenges unique to the 21st century.
This breakthrough step-by-step guide teaches children how to quiet their minds, calm their bodies, and identify and manage their emotions. With Building Emotional Intelligence, parents, teachers, and caregivers have the tools necessary to promote these invaluable skills in the children they raise.
Where Emotional Intelligence & Building Emotional Intelligence Meet
Daniel Goleman, author of the New York Time best-seller Emotional Intelligence, joins Linda and Sounds True Media in Building Emotional Intelligence: Techniques to Cultivate Inner Strength in Children. It aptly presents the complimentary spoken-word guided practice book/CD format to do exactly what it says: it teach both adult and child relaxation techniques with a concise background of the many years of work with children in the field of emotional intelligence with instructions to empower the adult introducing the relaxation techniques on CD.
He says, "A heightened self-awareness, better ability to manage distressing emotions, increased sensitivity to how others feel, and the capacity to manage relationships well are vital throughout life. But the foundation is laid in childhood".
In his groundbreaking book, Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman writes about the emerging field of “social and emotional learning” (SEL). By making social and emotional learning (SEL) an integral part of the curriculum, many schools have found a comprehensive and coordinated way to address the deeply intertwined academic, social, and emotional needs of students, as well as the near-overwhelming demands on teachers’ time and talents.
The concepts and competencies addressed in social and emotional learning are those that young people need for success in school and in life. With these abilities, our children are better prepared to help renew democracy and play an active role in strengthening civil society.
Working with children in the schools closest to the former world trade center, Linda has developed a curriculum based onl Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) that can help any child calm the body, quiet the mind and pay better attention.
Linda Lantieri's July 2008 appearance on "Our Greatest Hour" RADIO Show! mused the manifestation of at least one Social and Emotional Learning schools (that I know of) in Tampa.
We need more. October 8-9 in Washington, DC at Constitution Hall, the all interested are invited to the Educators, Scientists and Contemplatives Dialogue on Cultivating a Healthy Mind, Brain and Heart.
A recognized pioneer in the movement to integrate social and emotional learning into schools throughout the world, currently Linda is on the forefront of one of education's greatest challenges: how to help children who have suffered shock like the events of 9/11 all over the world become more resilient, so they can bounce back from trauma and get on with their lives and education.
There is a growing national movement to redefine the basics of a good education, and its message is straightforward—we need to educate the heart as well as the mind.
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