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JIMINY SELF-HELP HANDBOOK 4
Competences: Taking others’ perspectives, demonstrating empathy and compassion, developing
positive relationships, practising collaboration & teamwork.
2. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND
There is extensive literature for Emotional Intelligence that in our days comes in various formats and
there are also different points of viewing the matter, some more academic and other more business
related. In the related section at the end of this module we provide some ideas for further reading
targeted to the educators and generally the professionals providing help to the marginalized groups.
Regarding the target audience of this project, we will try also to provide some ideas for approaching
the subject in a way that is probably closer and more relevant to them.
Under this perspective we found the way experienced Counsellor William G DeFoore PhD talks about
EI quite interesting, for giving a first glimpse about the subject to low-skilled people not familiar to it.
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He calls it ‘Emotional Intelligence Circle of trust .
Relationship
Social
Self
Self
Awareness
Management
Awareness
Management
1 https://www.goodfinding.com/circle-of-trust.html
