Problem Statement:

The ability to be aware of our emotions and proactively understand them so they do not affect us is called emotional intelligence. The current deficit of empathetic communication and environments that foster the understanding of other's feelings is leading the tolerance levels to decrease, leading to high pressure environments and decreasing personal perceptions.

Proposed Solution:

To tackle this issue, the Montevideo Hub decided to proactive foster the increase of social empathy by executing a series of workshops on emotional intelligence with keynote speakers and facilitators.

Target Group: 

1) Young people between 16 and 25 years old in Montevideo and between 18 and 29 in Maldonado.

2) People between 25 and 35 years old in Montevideo.

Hub activities:

This project had three objectives:

1. Bring enough awareness that positions this issue in the national agenda


2. Identify tools that help youth to understand and manage their own emotions


3. Educate young people on the importance of applying emotional intelligence in daily life as the ability to identify, understand and handle emotions correctly, in a way that facilitates relationships with others, the achievement of goals and the management of stress.

To fulfil these objectives, the following activities have been developed:

1. 1 Workshop aimed at young people between 16 and 25 years old in the capital: Montevideo.


2. 1 Workshop aimed at young people between 18 and 29 in the interior: Maldonado.


3. Workshop aimed at young people between 25 and 35 years old in the capital: Montevideo.

Available metrics:

- +1000 participants

- 3 workshops

- 90% of the participants responded that were highly‐satisfied with the workshops.

Collaborators 

Speakers and workhops facilitators: Educación Responsable (https://educacionresponsable.edu.uy/programa.html)

Location and Marketing campaign: Instituto Nacional de Juventud (National Institute of Youth - Uruguay), Campus Party organizers ( https://uruguay.campus-party.org/) and Sinergia Co Work (https://www.sinergia.uy/)

Govenment support: Municipio B (Municipality).

This project has been completed: Start date JUN 2018 | End date: AGO 2019

Web links:

• https://www.globalshapersmontevideo.com/projects/talleres-de-inteligencia-emocional


• https://drive.google.com/open?id=1krbjAl40gzZG74bV964ONXctUHDXh1zG


• https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YpeQ7aGJU8BMQFDbpuZcE7EUpNe1hQTA;https://municipiob.montevideo.gub.uy/inteligencia-emocional


• https://twitter.com/globalshapersmv/status/1166473896163459072?lang=es


• https://m.facebook.com/GlobalShapersMontevideo/posts/1139923522847715;https://twitter.com/jgordin/status/1107414797975457794?s=20


• https://twitter.com/GlobalShapersMV/status/1107027335373602816?s=20;https://twitter.com/GlobalShapersMV/status/1057747819182940160?s=20