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I do trainings in Emotional Intelligence. Determined to be a greater factor in success than IQ, emotional intelligence is the ability to respond appropriately, no matter what life throws at you. These trainings help build confidence, patience, focus, and manage anger and anxiety. This work is for individuals, couples, small teams and large groups. I teach you how to increase your emotional intelligence and live a life of greater balance and wholeness.

Emotional and Physical Intelligence

Emotional intelligence based on brain science -- simple exercises that work

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Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence is having the ability to respond in a way that is emotionally appropriate. We all have a comfort range which contains our most common and habitual responses. Emotional intelligence includes the ability to be emotionally flexible so we don't always have to think, feel and act the way we always think, feel and act. When our old patterns are no longer effective, it's time to make a change.

In order to be flexible and make that change, we need to expand our emotional palette. In the way an artist selects from the full color spectrum while painting, emotional intelligence allows us to respond to all situations life may throw at us by selecting from a full emotional spectrum.

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Physical Intelligence

There are several kinds of physical intelligence. Seeing the iMax movie of Michael Jordon is seeing poetry in motion. Highly trained athletes like him have a particular and high degree of physical intelligence including coordination, quick response time, supreme eye-hand coordination, endurance, etc.

My definition of physical intelligence is rather different and is based on the ability to listen to your body. It could be as basic as knowing when you're hungry or when you're full. It's recognizing the gut reaction in response to a decision-making moment. It's a way to know how you feel emotionally and anticipating an emotional response before responding inappropriately. It's knowing how to "turn up the volume" on the language of the body to make it easier to hear its voice.

More interesting than that, physical intelligence engages the body to train neuron pathways to help you change an inappropriate emotional response to an appropriate response.

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Integrative Change

Our personality styles determine a default setting for our emotional comfort zone. When we respond according to our personality style, we may react in ways that are not as effective as we might hope. To increase the comfort zone and respond more effectively involves change. But change is difficult. Why?

There are many answers, including:

• we don't want to
• we're not ready to
• we don't know what else to do
• we know what else to do, but we don't know how to do it
• we keep not changing

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The Missing Step

Learn exercises that translate the emotional range of the different personality styles into simple movement. Brain science explains the neuron pathways that manifest and express our inner states. Recognize your personality type and its pathways that have been over-developed through over-use. Learn how to tame them, and train and strengthen new neuron pathways that capture alternative responses that can help us break out of our box. This work facilitates change, helps you find your voice and engage your will because it integrates you--makes you whole, connects you--with your head, your heart, your body and your spirit.

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Objectives

• Acknowledge the relationship between thoughts, feelings, and the body
• Explore ways to translate inner thinking and feeling states into movement
• Experience different personality styles through movement
• Identify physical "triggers" and develop neuron pathways to aid in the expression of different virtues
• Develop and train physical antidotes (and their neuron pathways) to recurrent negative emotional states
• Explore strategies for increasing emotional intelligence










Services

Andrea is available to teach workshops in "Physical Intelligence", "Cancer Odyssey" and "EPI for Theatre" and for private sessions.

Workshops are available in a variety of formats: evening and weekend programs, five- and six-day retreats, in schools, business settings, and for producing entertainment based on these principles (read the review for "People Being People" for more information).

Private, couple, and parent/child "Somatic Focusing" sessions (based on the principles of "Transformation Through Movement") are always available at the teaching sites before and/or after the scheduled program.

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