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Emotional Literacy
Intelligence with a Heart
Learning how to respond to the emotional blocks that hold people back.
Claude Steiner
Self-Help, Psychology
$17.95
Pages: 275 pages, Size: 5 x 8
Published: October, 2003
ISBN: 1932181024
 
 

Description:
This step-by-step program opens the door to achieving emotional power. Instructions are given on how emotional literacy—intelligence with a heart—can be learned through practicing specific exercises that foster the awareness of emotion in oneself and others, by increasing capacities to love others and oneself while developing honesty, and by taking responsibility for one's actions. Provided are instructions on how to reverse the dangerous self-destructive emotional patterns that can rule a person's life. This program shows individuals how to open their hearts and minds to honest and effective communication, how to survey the emotional landscape, and ultimately how to take responsibility for their emotional lives.

Author Biography:
Claude Steiner, is a clinical psychologist and the author of Achieving Emotional Literacy, Original Warm Fuzzy Tale, Games Alcoholics Play, and Scripts People Live. He lives in Berkeley, California.

Reviews/Endorsements:
“Steiner…teaches how to give, receive and reject strokes, how to perceive and communicate feelings clearly and how to replace power plays with power literacy…he offers plenty of insightful
information about emotional interactions.”
—Publisher’s Weekly

“Claude Steiner has done a great service by isolating the building
blocks of emotional maturity and telling readers how to achieve them. If you like to learn how to feel more, how to express your feelings and how to improve every relationship in your life, don’t miss this user friendly step by step program.”
—Susan Page, author of the best selling book How One of You Can Bring the Two of You Together

“Claude Steiner condenses twenty years of experience teaching
relatively simple, highly effective methods of working through
terribly complicated psychological situations. If enough of us mastered this new language, we’d change the world.”
—Elaine Aron, author of The Highly Sensitive Person

“This book is an invaluable primer for not only developing emotional literacy but partnership literacy; the skills needed for relations based on partnership rather than domination. I highly recommend it. It is a much needed tool for learning and teaching
empathy, responsibility and the ability to express emotions in non-violent, mutually respectful ways.”
—Riane Eisler, author of The Chalice and the Blade, Sacred Pleasures and The Partnership Way

“These days when people often connect more intimately with their machines than to their intimates, our human relationships are suffering terribly. Claude Steiner proposes a potent antidote to this contemporary malaise. Here is an elegant and practical program which has much to teach us about the most central part of our humanity, our emotions, and how to communicate them effectively to restore and enhance all of our relationships, from the casual to the most intimate.”
—David Geisinger, co-author with
Lonnie Barbach of Going the Distance

“Everyone talks about love and intimacy, Claude Steiner does
something about them. If real change is the point, this book provides simple and concrete steps to build the intimate relationships that many of us seek.”
—Beth Roy, author of Some Trouble with Cows: Making Sense of Social Conflict

“Claude Steiner has written a guide that will help you heal your emotional wounds and will show you how to open your heart to honest, equal and loving relationships.”
—Deirdre English, former executive editor of Mother Jones magazine and co-author with Barbara Ehrenreich of For her Own Good; A Hundred and Fifty Years of the Expert’s Advice to Women

“Daniel Goleman made us aware that there is more to intelligence than IQ. Claude Steiner teaches how to develop that intelligence of the heart without which IQ is empty.”
—Jenae Greene, author of Looking for Ebony Blood & Snow