EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

All Crafty events are intended to increase participants' ability and accountability
to communicate with confidence and competence via the following components of EI:

Self-Awareness
Most people, adults or children, are completely unaware of the power of their own conditioning, especially in relation to ‘cultural scripting’. This last has many implications for people with different cultural and familial norms.

Self-Management
Many people do not manage their own feelings and emotions (including around diversity issues) because they lack awareness* of their own ‘scripts’.

Self-Motivation
The power of habit and the defensiveness that ensues, often prevents or inhibits people from acting on new information e.g. data from and experience of people from different cultures who have different beleifs, values, traditions and customs.

Social-Awareness
Many people, though better informed about the issues, can still lack meaningful awareness of the impact of, for example, their silences.

Relationship Management
Given experiences that take them through these stages, people will often wake up to the fact that they have real choices. They also need to accept that, whether or not they act on those choices (which is also a choice!) there is a price to pay.

This awareness and acceptance can lead to greater understanding and empathy, which can make people more willing to contribute in ways that make meaningful and manifest differences in their personal and professional lives.


Ignorance is a starting point not a sin!