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| 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 “Claude Steiner condenses twenty years of experience teaching “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 “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.” “Everyone talks about love and intimacy, Claude Steiner does “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.” “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.” |