The world is waking up to the reality of emotional intelligence and how critical it is for human psychology. Research suggests that a person’s emotional quotient—a measurement of emotional intelligence—may be more important than IQ in determining a person’s success in life. EQ has been linked to job performance, more satisfying relationships, and the ability to recover from acute stress.

Emotional intelligence is like the weather. Everybody talks about it, but no one does anything about it. Or even more relevant, no one teaches it in a way that transforms people’s lives.

For the average person, an academic concept of EQ, or the ability to test for it, doesn’t help. And traditional concepts, such as the idea that we need to “manage emotions,” don’t bring us the emotional freedom we seek. We have to go beyond the belief that we have to “manage emotions,” to an experience of emotional flow and mastery.

For that to happen, we need an understanding of EQ that maps to our own day-to-day experience. We have to find a way to see what is happening within our own feeling realm and then become masterful about what we see. We have to get eyes on our emotional experience to become emotionally intelligent in all the dimensions of our human experience.

This is what the Becoming a Sun Workshop offers. It presents a map of the human emotional experience that correlates with your actual experience. Then it explains how the elements of your experience are in dynamic relationship with each other. And finally, it lets participants work that dynamic in themselves and feel what it is like when it is working creatively.

What does this mean for participants in the Becoming a Sun Workshop? They transform emotions that have been sabotaging them into emotions that empower them. Emotions of love, empathy, and compassion that were frozen melt and flow easily out. Destructive anger turns into devoted commitment and service.