Emotional thought method

The emotional thought method (Spanish: Pensamiento emocional) is a technique for increasing emotional intelligence using a group of activities that can be used in a personal or group-oriented way.

The emotional thought method was created by Carlos Hué, a Spanish psychologist who is a teacher at the University of Zaragoza. It is explained in the book Pensamiento emocional. Un método para el desarrollo de la autoestima y el liderazgo (Hué, 2007). This book has not yet been translated into English. Carlos Hué gathers a lot of exercises in this method in order to develop emotional skills.

Emotional intelligence

Competencies

The emotional thought method proposes seven competencies. Four pertain to the self: self-knowledge, self-evaluation, emotional control, and personal motivation; and three pertain to others: knowledge of others, appreciation of others, and control of them.

Self-knowledge includes knowledge of personal capacities, skills, personality, interests, goals, etc. It involves introspection, knowledge of skills, personal emotions, ability to apply self-criticism, and self-awareness.
Self-evaluation requires knowledge of self and some degree of self-esteem. Self-esteem is advanced as the driving force of behaviour. This competence is the result of developing sensibility, sensuality, sexuality, optimism, happiness and self-esteem.
Emotional control involves managing stress, fear and anxiety by developing three emotional skills: motor inhibition, self-control, and mental control.
Personal motivation involves learning activation, productivity, quality, instrumental tools, globality, planning, culture, innovation, interests' wideness, determination and evaluation.
Three competences in this emotional method are oriented to how to make relationships. Knowledge of others involves knowing their personality, interests, aptitudes, empathy, communication ability, social analysis, and appreciation of diversity.
Appreciation of others involves ten abilities. They are structured in four groups:

Necessary capacities for a relationship: approximation, affability, and tolerance.
Capacities for creating a link: confidence, comprehension and sociability.
Three levels of proximity: companionship, friendship and love.
Responsibility, as the sum of the others.

The last competence is control of others. This competence has been criticized as not respectful of others, even to persuade others to pursue their interests. This involves the capacity to have relations, the capacity to organize groups, the capacity to solve conflicts, and leadership.

These seven competencies are developed through exercises, as much as in Hué's book, as in the TREIN project.

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Emotional thought method

Emotional intelligence

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