MHS appears to be busy putting together some upcoming Emotional Intelligence and Bar-On related conferences and workshops.
I recently received a mailing for the International Conference on Emotional Intelligence which is in London, England this year on June 11th and 12th. They've described the workshop as targeted users of the EI in all domains, but the currently announced speakers clearly have an HR push. Either way, who needs an excuse to write off a trip to England as a business trip!
You can read more on the conference at MHS's site by CLICKING HERE.
Also of note is the upcoming Emotional Intelligence and Higher Education: The EQ-i Certification Workshop Series 2007 which has a Canadian stop this year in Kingston from June 6th to 8th. There is some details up on MHS's website (CLICK HERE)
If you have not taken a look at the Bar-On EQ-i before it is certainly worth a look. It can offer a lot to a psychoeducational assessment, especially those that do not fit a clear learning disabled profile but continue to have academic difficulties. It is kind of like adding a personality profiler to the assessment, but utilizes traits that are more related to the learning process than you would get from a tool that is more oriented towards hiring or Axis-1/2 diagnostics.
There is some really interesting work going on in the domain of EI for college and academics. At the forefront of this research is Dr. James D.A. Parker at Trent University who I had the pleasure of sitting beside at a luncheon last November. He is doing some interesting work and showed me some EI scales he has been developing that really peaked my interest on their relationship between EI and personality developments parallels with potential executive deficits. You can view his labs website by CLICKING HERE.
