The Leader Within is an interactive seminar aiming to increase the emotional intelligence and competence within students. The day engages with both theory of emotions as well as practical skilling and active experiences that combine to develop a greater capacity of helping others through managing their own emotional state; simply, that they must first lead themselves before they can lead others. Students self-assess their emotional competency, and this is then confirmed or adjusted as each area of emotional intelligence is unpacked throughout the day.
The Leader Within equips and empowers students with the following learning goals and outcomes…
- Creating awareness of emotions, how they affect us, and how to identify and differentiate them
- Encouraging students to practice the skills of restraint – healthy management of their emotions
- Addressing resilience of emotions and optimism through practical and research-based applications
- Exploring the skill of empathy and its antonym: Narcissism
- Implementing the content of the day through whole group activities which test the students’ understanding of concepts and skills as well as their ability to work with others
As per Personal and Social Capabilities in the Australian National Curriculum, students are invited to examine influences on and consequences of their emotional responses in a learning, social and work-related contexts; forecast the consequences of expressing emotions inappropriately and devise measures to regulate behaviour; consider control and justify their emotional responses, in expressing their opinions, beliefs, values, questions and choices; identify the skills needed to manage different types of relationships; analyse enablers of and barriers to effective verbal, nonverbal and digital communication; and assess individual and group decision-making processes in challenging situations.