Dr. Robin Stern of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence: How To Live With Joy Even When It Feels Like The Whole World Is Pulling You Down

When we live ‘on purpose’ we live our values, and we live intentionally. Living on purpose, means knowing what is guiding us, what we are ‘meant’ to do … it means we have a choice not only every day, but, in every interaction about how we will ‘show up’ in that interaction — we will be empathic, compassionate, a good listener? We will be someone who lifts that spirits of the person you interact with. I think about that every day — I begin the day with a moment of gratitude — and, think about what is ahead of me for the day — and how I can be my ‘best self’ in every interaction…

Robin Stern, Ph.D., is the co-founder and associate director for the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and an associate research scientist at the Child Study Center at Yale. She is a licensed psychoanalyst with 30 years of experience treating individuals, couples and families. Robin is the co-developer of RULER (an acronym for the five key emotion skills of recognizing, understanding, labeling, expressing, and regulating emotions) an evidence-based approach to social and emotional learning that has been adopted by over 1,500 public, charter, and private pre-school to high schools across the United States and in other countries. Robin regularly consults with schools nationally and across the globe. She also consults with large companies, including Facebook and Google on best practices for integrating the principles of emotional intelligence into training and product design. With Facebook, she has co-developed a number of products, including a social resolution tools to help adults and youth resolve online conflict and the bullying prevention hub to support educators, families, and teens.

Robin is the co-founder of Star Factor Coaching, a model of leadership coaching anchored in the skills of emotional…