What is Emotional Assertiveness (EA)?

EA is the skill of inviting healthy cooperation, seeking win-win outcomes, and building healthy and effective relationships. It is a rejection of destructive aggression, vindictiveness, vengeance, and victim behaviours replacing them with healthy human interactions.

Emotional Assertiveness is about expressing one’s authentic emotions with the objective to strengthen and deepen cooperation and friendship.

In fact, Emotional Assertiveness is Applied Emotional Intelligence.

As such, it is an essential building block of healthy teams and organisations.

Are you in a position of leadership or influence? Or do you want to improve your communication skills personally and professionally?

If you answered “yes” to either of the above, then the Emotional Assertiveness Model is for you.

  • Improve communication and leadership skills for a win-win every time
  • Improve team and business performance with revolutionary emotional intelligence tools
  • Strengthen and deepen your relationships
  • Understand emotions and combine them with clear thinking

By applying the Emotional Assertiveness Model, you’ll be able to recognise your emotions, understand their messages/needs attached, and improve your leadership style and relationships by expressing those needs in a more assertive, win-win manner.

The Emotional Assertiveness Seminar provides participants with the necessary skills to:

  • Acquire a working knowledge of the Emotional Assertiveness Model
  • Understand the mechanisms responsible for our emotional issues, failures, and difficulties in relationships
  • Improve our ability to listen to our emotions, to understand them, to anticipate their impact on our lives and on our health and wellbeing
  • Deal with them in a healthy and authentic way
  • Improve our ability to build healthy, secure and meaningful bonds with others and improve our quality of life
  • Gain the four key qualities of emotional intelligence: Self-Awareness, Social-Awareness, Self-Management and Relationship-Management

This training takes place in person or online over the course of 3 days. In person seminars can be organised anywhere in the world.

Summary of the 3-day Emotional Assertiveness Training:

This module will facilitate you identifying, differentiating, and understanding your emotions. It clarifies the difference between healthy authentic expressions of emotion and the destructive and harmful expression of cover-up emotions.

You will develop means to express your authentic emotions in healthy ways to facilitate your management of conflict and the development of deeper relationships.

During the seminar you will have time together with your colleagues to explore the application of emotional intelligence in practice.

“In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.”
― Charles Darwin

  • The place of emotions in human relationships
  • The nature of emotions; why we have them
  • Emotions and bodily sensations
  • What is Emotional Assertiveness and why do we need high emotional intelligence?
  • Our Toolbox: a collection of useful psychology concepts to help us better understand and apply Emotional Assertiveness
  • Differentiation between healthy and unhealthy expression of emotion
  • Four dynamics: Self-awareness, Self-management, Interpersonal-awareness, Relationship-management
  • Emotional cycles: healthy and unhealthy

    • Anger
    • Sadness
    • Fear
    • Joy
  • Complex emotions
  • Managing emotions
  • Building relationships

Elevate Your Team’s Performance with Emotional Assertiveness

If you are interested in finding out more about how the Emotional Assertiveness Model could help you and your teams, feel free to send me a message or book a discovery call.

Testimonials

If you’d like to find out more about what EA looks like in daily life, I invite you to watch this podcast episode from One Spark Away


In this podcast episode, we explore:

  • The 4 Pillars of Emotional Intelligence and why you can’t manage what you aren’t aware of.
  • Emotional Assertiveness vs. People Pleasing: How to stand up for your needs while maintaining healthy, win-win relationships.
  • The “SCARF” Model: Understanding the 5 brain triggers (Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness, Fairness) that drive our reactions to change.
  • Leading with vulnerability: Why the most effective leaders are those who aren’t afraid to show their “human” side.
  • The “Healthy Relationship Diagram”: A simple framework for healthy boundaries and shared responsibility in any partnership.

Whether you’re a leader navigating organisational change or an individual looking to better understand your inner universe, this conversation offers practical, science-backed tools to help you return to your birthright: HAPPINESS.

Interested in EA for yourself or your team?

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