I have worked with Gretchen for many years at Harborview Medical Center. I signed up to work with her concerning some career changes. Gretchen helped me uncover hidden difficulties that had been chronic stressors for me while guiding me to discover my own personal way out. Gretchen is an extraordinary door opener, a facilitator of monumental changes. I cannot tell you how exciting the journey has been. All the way, Gretchen has been compassionate, fun loving, and wise with hard fought experience, a unique array of skills, and years of education. Gretchen is a charming guide to better emotional health. I would highly recommend her to anyone who would like to see happier days. — Sydney Anderson, RN Whidbey Island, Washington

The EIQ In Action Profile

	BEST DAYS offers EIQ improvement for individuals too. This consists of the EIQ In Action Profile with a 90 minute interpretive consultation after you receive your profile results. BEST DAYS life coach, Gretchen Novasio has taken a Masters Coaching Series to provide focused coaching for EIQ improvement based on elements of the profile. Clients may desire to add individual life coaching after completing the interpretive consultation. EIQ Learning In Action with 90 minute Interpretive Consultation $300 Register Now

Emotional Intelligence for Nurses:
Getting to the Heart of What Matters

You will learn how emotions are an internal compass guiding all actions, so decoding them is key to emotional wisdom, creative breakthroughs, and fruitful actions. You will learn new perspectives and proven processes for making positive changes in how you relate with yourself and others. Emotional Intelligence (EI) is a type of intelligence used to conduct all the nuances of human relationships. High ratings of this kind of intelligence have been scientifically linked with higher levels of life satisfaction, and more productive, longer lives. Unlike Intelligence Quotient (IQ), Emotional Intelligence Quotient (EIQ) can be improved.

This program is divided into 3 parts. Each part consist of 10 classes spread over a 3 month period with time off for holidays and time to digest the material. Each teleclass lasts 90 minutes. Though each part stands alone, BEST DAYS recommends taking all 3 parts to assure the behavioral and emotional changes that significantly increase Emotional Intelligence Quotient (EIQ). Each part in this program is built around understanding and increasing core capacities, i.e. the healthy balance of emotions and mind sets that drive constructive behavior, and, identifying and practicing competencies and skills that increase EIQ.

Increasing your EIQ will help you:

• Respond instead of react (response-ability!)
• Identify emotional states of self and others
• Deal effectively with difficult personalities
• Communicate respectfully and set boundaries with adults and children
• Increase open communication and intimacy

Each part of the program utilizes modern technologies such as teleconferencing and the Internet, so you can participate from virtually anywhere.

“It is very important to understand that emotional intelligence is not the opposite of intelligence, it is not the triumph of heart over head—it is the unique intersection of both.’’ —David Caruso

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Part I: The EIQ In Action Profile: Shedding Light on You

Part I includes the EIQ In Action Profile and Assessment. EIQ In Action Profile is unlike any Emotional Intelligence Quotient assessment tool on the market. The other tools available measure behaviors occurring in relationships, emotional competencies and skills. This tool measure emotional core capacities, so the emotional drivers and the mindset behind behavior is actually measured. Behavior is difficult to change when that which drives it remains below the level of conscious awareness. Life Coach Gretchen is certified to administer the profile and provide interpretive consultation of the results.

You will explore various patterns that show up in the EIQ In Action Profile to apply to your own profile. Life Coach Gretchen also offers you a 20 minute individual coaching session to answer questions about your own profile. Then, you will explore the elements of the profile and ways to improve each element. At the end of this part, you will have a deep understanding of what motivates your behavior--behavior that may have baffled you. You will initiate proven practices that begin to remold emotional patterns of reactivity into choice based responsiveness.

Participants cannot take Part One without taking the Profile. However, a client may take the Profile without the class. Please see right side for information on taking the EIQ profile as an individual.

Part II: Where It All Started: Family of Origin

Discover the amazing effects of family relationships on your EIQ and on the development of your emotional mind. Reep the rich rewards and identify the steps to exploring the dark continent of your family. Explore the powerful concepts of Systems Theory and apply these to your family. Uncover the roles that you played in your family and identify how these show up now in relationships with others today. Identify the 5 roles played in family dysfunction. Discover the myriad of ways that hooks from your past show up in your present. Identify behaviors that transform current roles that no longer serve you into roles that do.

Part III: Communication That Connects

Effective communication starts with several emotional skills that help you separate yourself from others. These skills include: naming your feelings in the moment, effectively describing the behavior of others, separating your judgments and thoughts from behavioral descriptions, identifying a continuum of wants and desires, owning hooks from the past (or “how did my family of origin sneak into this conversation?), owning your projections, and, giving and receiving critical feedback in the midst of conflict in ways that can be heard. At the end of this class, you will be astounded to experience how effective communication clarifies what is actually going on and improves outcomes.

Class sizes are limited to 14 participants and fill up quickly.

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