Emotional Intelligence is one of the most useful aspects of our ability to adapt to everyday challenges. It intervenes both in our way of relating to others and in our way of regulating our way of living emotions.

However, for many years, this type of intelligence has been neglected in favour of giving more importance to others whose results can be checked more easily with the most popular and used intelligence tests today. But this is changing.

More and more people are interested in learning about EQ in order to take advantage of the habits and exercises that allow it to be developed better. Therefore, in this article we will focus on the Catalan capital and we will see a selection of the best EQ courses in Barcelona .

What is this kind of intelligence good for?

Emotional Intelligence is a set of mental skills that allow us to recognize our own and other people’s emotions and to carry out a series of behaviors or routines to take full advantage of the advantages that certain emotional states have in specific contexts, as well as to minimize the negative impact of other emotions in other situations.

For example, EQ helps us to transform frustration into a motivation that leads us to get closer to our goals by learning from past mistakes, instead of just living that frustration as a paralyzing experience that makes us assume that we will not be able to reach an objective.

In the same way, EQ allows us to analyse the emotional states of others without being totally blinded by prejudice , so that we can act accordingly without assuming that these emotions are something spontaneous or something that describes the essence of our interlocutor, and that is not explained by the context.

For example, this helps to avoid absurd arguments when we know that something we have said has been misinterpreted by the other and as a consequence he is angry with us; someone with low emotional intelligence will overlook this fact and simply react to that hostility with more hostility, letting himself be carried away by the situation, while another emotionally more intelligent person will clear up the misunderstanding.

The best courses of Emotional Intelligence in Barcelona

These are some of the most recommended EQ courses in Barcelona. Read about their characteristics to find out how they fit in with what you are looking for.

1. Mindfulness Stress Reduction Course (Psychotools)

The psychology centre Psicotools, located in the area of Vallcarca, organizes one of the most interesting courses for those who seek to develop Emotional Intelligence skills: the Mindfulness Stress Reduction Course based on the MBSR Program .

This learning method lasts 8 weeks, and was developed by Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn during his stay at the University of Massachusetts. Its objective is to provide people who follow the program with various tools to effectively manage stress in a wide variety of situations, thus gaining the ability to act in a more controlled and constructive way, capable of solving the problem.

Evidently, it is a course based on the practice of a variant of Mindfulness, which is inspired by the millenary techniques of vipassana meditation, although systematizing more its use so that it can be investigated on this tool scientifically, and without religious connotations. Therefore, this course can be useful for both individuals and professionals interested in using these methods with patients or members of a work team.

  • If you are interested in knowing more about this Psychotools course, click here to access their contact details.

2. Course on Emotional Intelligence (Foment Formació)

This is one of the most suitable EQ courses in Barcelona for those who want to learn specifically about the application of EQ in the context of work and the workplace .

It is carried out by Foment Formació, whose facilities are located in Ciutat Vella (specifically, in Avinguda de Francesc Cambó), and aims to provide students with practice in learning to recognize emotions, detect the type of situations in the work context that may be producing them, use the emotional as a source of motivation and resolution of needs, etc.

In this way, enhances both employability and the ability to work efficiently without being subjected to unnecessary problems, and even helping others to achieve group objectives.

3. Emotional Intelligence Workshop (Canvis)

Canvis Centre for Psychology, located in the Eixample district (Calle Balmes) also offers a course in Emotional Intelligence to be taken into account. This is the Emotional Intelligence Workshop in Barcelona: The Wisdom of Emotions, which has a single session of 40 hours and serves to learn the basics about Emotional Intelligence.

It is especially recommended for those who know practically nothing about this subject, since it is intended as an introduction to this area of psychology.

Here you can find out what EQ is, how it is possible to classify emotions, and learn some tricks to regulate them, among other things .

To know more…

If you are interested in knowing more about EQ, what its constitutive elements are and the ways in which it can be developed, you can visit this article: “What is EQ?