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4 books match the query 'Emotional intelligence'

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Awareness to Action

The Enneagram, Emotional Intelligence, and Change

Robert Tallon and Mario Sikora

University of Scranton Press, 2006

Are you a helper or an achiever? A challenger or a peacemaker? Awareness to Action explores the nine distinct, yet interconnected personality types of Enneagram theory, which uses a nine-pointed figure to illustrate the relationship between an individual’s dominant personality and the other types that comprise the structure. Mario Sikora and Robert Tallon explain the characteristics of each personality and show how a person can capitalize on their strengths and weaknesses, charting a specific course for personal growth. They discuss practical topics such as relationship building, conflict resolution, and personal development, information that will not only be of interest to individuals seeking a greater understanding of self, but to managers and human resource professionals as well.

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Naming How We Feel

Specific Affect and Emotional Labor In the Writing Center

Daniel Lawson

Utah State University Press, 2026

Writing centers are the locus for a wide range of emotional labor on campus, often serving students beyond the typical educational purpose. Naming How We Feel grapples with the question of how writing center administrators account for, train for, and theorize emotion and affect in the writing center to facilitate better and more ethical practices and considers how writing center administrators might ameliorate the costs of such emotional labor to faculty, tutors, and students.

Beginning with a discussion of how writing center scholars might identify and understand emotional labor, the book then expands to examine richly varied case studies and anecdotes to showcase how tutors tend to experience such labor and consider its relationship and association with emotional intelligence and burnout. Lawson considers how the field might better prepare and train tutors for affect and emotional labor, ultimately advocating for more equitable conditions for emotional labor within writing centers.

Naming How We Feel examines the critical role feelings play in writing and writing center work, offering advice on training tutors for emotional labor and literacy and suggestions for how administrators might engage institutional stakeholders to create and support more equitable conditions for emotional labor within their writing centers.

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The 360 Librarian

A Framework for Integrating Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence, and Critical Reflection in the Workplace

Tammi M. Owens

Assoc of College & Research Libraries, 2019

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The Emotions of Protest

James M. Jasper

University of Chicago Press, 2018

In Donald Trump’s America, protesting has roared back into fashion. The Women’s March, held the day after Trump’s inauguration, may have been the largest in American history, and resonated around the world. Between Trump’s tweets and the march’s popularity, it is clear that displays of anger dominate American politics once again.

There is an extensive body of research on protest, but the focus has mostly been on the calculating brain—a byproduct of structuralism and cognitive studies—and less on the feeling brain. James M. Jasper’s work changes that, as he pushes the boundaries of our present understanding of the social world. In The Emotions of Protest, Jasper lays out his argument, showing that it is impossible to separate cognition and emotion. At a minimum, he says, we cannot understand the Tea Party or Occupy Wall Street or pro- and anti-Trump rallies without first studying the fears and anger, moral outrage, and patterns of hate and love that their members feel.

This is a book centered on protest, but Jasper also points toward broader paths of inquiry that have the power to transform the way social scientists picture social life and action. Through emotions, he says, we are embedded in a variety of environmental, bodily, social, moral, and temporal contexts, as we feel our way both consciously and unconsciously toward some things and away from others. Politics and collective action have always been a kind of laboratory for working out models of human action more generally, and emotions are no exception. Both hearts and minds rely on the same feelings racing through our central nervous systems. Protestors have emotions, like everyone else, but theirs are thinking hearts, not bleeding hearts. Brains can feel, and hearts can think.
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