WHAT DO MOTHER

TERESA & IRONMAN

HAVE IN COMMON?

Emotional Intelligence and

The Making of Our Full Self

© Belinda É. Samari
What do Mother Teresa & Ironman have in common?
What do we mean by Intelligence?
What do we mean by Intelligence?

Intelligence as categorizing our internal abilities

to better navigate our external landscape
What do we mean by Emotions?
So what is Emotional Intelligence?
The competence to identify and express emotions,
understand them, regulate both positive and negative
emotions in the self and others.

1. PERCEIVE
Recognize emotions in faces | music | stories
2. UNDERSTAND
Predict them and how they blend and change
3. MANAGE
Know how to express them in different situations
4. USE
Enable adaptive and creative thinking
Why is this important?

•Not a skill, it’s a way of being

•Being emotionally intelligent is a precursor to living a life with
the Living God =>
•Whole Intelligence
Exercises

• Listen
• Write
• Talk
How do we become this way?
Cultivate an intentional self-awareness within the scope of your
walk with God

• Self-monitoring
• Recognition
• Listen to self-talk
• Naming
• Patterns and trends
• Body
How do we become this way?
Enhanced self awareness as a reaction to the indwelling of God

Whole Intelligence:
1. Notice
2. Discern
3. Trust
4. Move

Practical things that help:

Practical things that help

• Solitude
• Sensitivity to the everyday
• Thanksgiving
• Journaling/Writing
What do Mother Teresa & Ironman have in common?
THANK YOU!

Belinda É. Samari

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Further Reading
• Emotional Intelligence: Science and Myth (book) by Gerald
Matthews, Moshe Zeidner, and Richard D. Roberts
• Emotional Intelligence for Dummies (book, free PDF)
http://cleverbridge.my/Emotional%20Intelligence%20For%20Du
mmies.pdf
• Developing Emotional and Social Intelligence: Exercises for
Leaders, Individuals, and Teams (book) by Amy Miller, Marcia
Hughes)
• The Great Exchange (my talk)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWCUd5rHPuE