How to Support Teens to Enhance Their Emotional Intelligence

This forum will focus on the role of parents and carers in recognising, understanding and responding to a teens emotions in an accepting and supportive way.

Joanie Bartolo from Emotion Wise will share the five steps of emotion coaching based on the Tuning into Teens program. This approach helps children and young people to understand and manage their emotions and to use emotional awareness to guide them when solving problems, to deal with frustration and to regulate feelings. Joanie is an accredited Tuning in to Kids and Tuning into Teens practitioner and qualified Social Worker. Joanie has been working with children and families for over 17 years.