1. "Emotional literacy" can be dismissed as the latest psychobabble. Some of what's written can be hard to take for anyone not used to the weird and wonderful world of trendy relationships gobbledygook. But don't be too hasty. The concept boils down to something very familiar in youth work. The usual definition is to say that we are emotionally literate if we can recognise, understand, handle and appropriately express our emotions. That's not babble. Those are powerful skills to improve young people's lives.
2. One simple analysis breaks emotional literacy into three parts. There is your ability to understand your own emotions. There is the ability to listen to and empathise with other people's emotions. And then there is the ability to express emotion. Without getting arrested.
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