EMOTIONS AND LEARNING

One of the fundamental tenets of Newfield’s coaching approach, and the subject of this book, is that new emotional competencies can be learned and practiced for the sake of living more meaning-filled and successful lives.
Traditionally, learning itself has been viewed as the acquisition, manipulation, consumption, accumulation, and utilization of information. Learning has come to be about gathering and applying information to produce ever more objective, quantified results. Is it any wonder, then, that our children are turned off by school, seeing it as more or less irrelevant to their more spontaneous experience of daily living? Or why the executives running an organization can’t understand how it is that employees ...

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