Six Seconds has organized many different conferences, ranging from intimate programs for 20 change leaders, to the international NexusEQ events with all the world-famous names and 600 participants from forty countries.
Jimmy Daniel (Senior Management Facilitator, FedEx Express) demonstrates a process for introducing EQ to FedEx managers (from Living EQ Oct, 2010)
In a few weeks in California, then in November in Singapore, and March in Dubai, we have our annual Living EQ Conferences. I loved hosting the big NexusEQ conferences, and I am sure we’ll do more of them. But in many ways, the intimate Living EQ events are far more powerful.
My experience is that good conferences conferences are interesting. They engage your head. Experts speak about their books, their research, their models, and participants gain new ideas.
Excellent conferences engage the heart as well. There is a sense of connectedness, of meaning. NexusEQ events have been like this, and we’ve often heard, “this is the best conference I’ve ever attended” because of the richness of the experience, head + heart.
But what would happen if we took a step further to engage head + heart + hands? If the conference is not just “ideas,” not just “connection,” but also application? The goal of the Living EQ series is to show how emotional intelligence comes to life in various sectors. So participants actually experience the way experts inside a huge multinational engage managers in this work, or how a school principal enrolls his faculty make EQ a priority, or how a parent has used EQ create peace in a family.
Why does it matter today?
I suspect we are passing through the “information age” to a new frontier. Now we have too much information. What do we do with all of this data? How do we decide what’s relevant and significant? We need to build wisdom — the judicious blending of intelligence and action to produce meaningful results.
This is the goal of Six Seconds’ approach to transformational learning. A process of engaging head + heart + hands. Of equipping people with rigorous insight, compassionate connection, and powerful tools to create positive change.
Oct. 6 and 7, Menlo Park, CA For more information, go to: http://www.6seconds.org/events/
