The Center helped me tremendously in my professional and personal life by helping me assess and build my skills in some of the most important competencies for success - emotional and social intelligence. Through their experiential learning workshops, I had the opportunity not only to learn new information, but to practice using that knowledge as I worked and interacted with others. Also, I must say, for the level of training received, their tuition is incredibly economical.
The EQHR Center is a group of dedicated practitioners who care deeply about helping us all depend our emotional intelligence and relationship capabilities. For anyone who is a leader of any kind of organization or system, understanding how people perceive and receive you in your relationships is crucial to your effectiveness. Self-awareness is a necessary precondition to great leadership. The EQHR Center's mission is help leaders improve their relationships, not just as leaders, but in all human relations.
I am a professional leadership coach working with clergy leaders. Occasionally, before clients are ready for coaching, some work in the realm of emotional intelligence is needed. The EQHR center provides the very best faith based programing in emotional intelligence that I have found. I have great respect for the work of this center and highly recommend them.
I have been a member, trainer booster of the Center from the beginning
Who We Are As The EQHR Center
We are: Educators - Professionals
• Faith based – Clergy/lay leaders/priests/deacons/bishops
• Human relations trainers/Organization Development consultants, therapists, coaches, - Practitioners who bring with them a myriad of business and technical skills
• We come from non-profit as well as for profit arenas, from homes, schools, communities.
• Our work can be tailored made for any audience.
• Each and every one of us has a rich and varied array of content area experience that enhances our EQHR offerings.
What do we have in common:
1. We Value using our gifts to help Faith Based Leaders (lay & professional) maximize their own gifts to be the best leaders they can be.
2. We honor the integrity of each individual in all of HIS, HER or THEIR diversity makeup
3. We Come Together because we are Continuous Learners
Our History
• In 2007, Roy Oswald, was pining for the good old days of having Faith based leaders maximizing their interpersonal skills through Human Relations Skills/T-Group workshops offered by Mid-Atlantic Training and Consulting (MATC).
• MATC, was a spin off from the granddaddy of T-Group work NTL - NATIONAL TRAINING LABORATORIES which was developed in 1943.
• Roy had now become enamored with the Daniel Goleman’s EI concepts and believed that by combining them with the Human Relations/T-group methodologies used by MATC we could enhance what was offered by MATC.
• Actually, the Human Relations work we had been doing all along was Emotional Intelligence – we just did not have the theoretical background and measurement of the competencies we were helping people develop. EI and instruments like the Goleman model ESCI model has given us that theoretical background and measurement.
o This goal was exciting but we needed to test combining the two.
• We did a pilot program in Chicago in 2007 with 12 facilitators and 63 seminarians and priests. the model worked and it just needed just needed some tweeking.
• After that group of us met to create the EQHR Center in 2008.
o We began by offering T of T of our new model to people who already had T-Group/L-Group experience but were not certified In EI
What we bring to a group.
• T-Group Facilitation Skills Training – Learning Groups
• Certification to administer and interpret Emotional Intelligence
• All of the myriad of our professional experience.
C. Waite Maclin
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My interpersonal relationships were enriched by the Emotional Intelligence skills of self- awareness and impulse control training that taught me the value of engaging others with presence and focus.
My first experience with an EQHR Workshop was in the summer of 2013. I was in the third year of my first call (as an Associate Pastor of a large congregation), where I was struggling with my Sr. Pastor colleague and the demoralized staff dynamic that was developing under their leadership. It's not an exaggeration to say that what I experienced and learned in that 5-day workshop (what is now call "Core Essentials") saved my ministry. I received the gifts of feedback, affirmation and grace. The EQ competencies I began developing freed me to be a more confident, self-aware, and resilient leader. I continue to financially support the Center’s work because I know that Emotional Intelligence is an absolutely essential skill for being effective in ministry during these challenging times.
The EQHR Center has been a vital organization in helping me navigate not only through the many changes within the last two years, but also as a priest of the Episcopal Church. Drawing on the training I have received by attending their valuable workshops, it has allowed me to lead with more confidence and wisdom the congregations in my care. Each day I reap those benefits not only professionally, but also personally.
The Center for Emotional Intelligence and Human Relations Skills is a gift to leaders. By design, leaders are expected to provide vision, direction, and strategies to achieve outcomes. This work is often compounded by the challenges of life, which often leave leaders vulnerable to their own emotional fortitude. The Center helps leaders to rejuvenate and to find their balance. This work is a gift, and certainly worth the investment of time and treasure.
I first heard about the EQHR Center in 2016 - its mission, "To increase the effectiveness of leaders within faith-based communities through experiential development of emotional intelligence (EQ) competencies and human relations (HR) skills." It sounded exactly like what was needed in my community. I engaged the organisation to run two weeks of training with seminarians and priests in our diocese and sat in on the programmes to assure myself of the quality and effectiveness of the delivery. I was not disappointed. The two Trainers delivered a high caliber of experiential training. They excelled!
I engaged the EQHR Center for another fortnight of training in 2017 with deacons and another group of priests. Our regional diocese continues to benefit from the participation of our faith based leaders in the Center's programmes. The growth in the EI of participants has facilitated the deepening of their spirituality and their effectiveness in ministry.
In 2018, I joined the Board and also became a Trainer with the Center. I am delighted to be part of this committed and authentic team of individuals. I am currently one of two lay members on the Board. 2020 saw this organisation do an amazing pivot from 5 day residential programmes to virtual training. The motivator was that this pandemic period is the time when more than ever, our faith based leaders need our services and by extension, the flocks need their shepherds .
As a Trainer I have experienced our programmes as a space in which participants have the opportunity to be, to become in tune with their emotions, to acknowledge how the management of their emotions could allow them to be more effective in their self care and their ability to be more available and present to those they are called to serve. Participants emerge relaxed, rejuvenated, more spiritually grounded and willing to engage their newly developed EI competencies.
My vision and hope is that the work of the Center will reach a wider base of faith based leaders.