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Last Saturday, October 24th, I had the opportunity to attend the Emotion Revolution summit at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The event was sponsored by the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and the Born This Way Foundation, which was founded by award-winning artist Lady Gaga and her mother, Cynthia Germanotta. There were more than 200 passionate students in attendance along with school administrators, policy makers, and well known academics. The purpose of this event was to recognize and create awareness around social and emotional issues which can affect a student’s well being and academic success.

The day began with a candid speech from Cynthia Germanotta, Lady Gaga’s mother, who stated that she “ignored [her] child’s feelings at a time when she was in pain. She was a good student but her behavior was kind of ‘All over the place.’” Germanotta explained that she “grew up in a time when our parents simply told us to ‘suck it up’ and we were taught to solve our own problems. But clearly, the times have changed and that is not always the best solution.”
Following, Dr. Mark Brackett, Director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, unveiled the results of a sizable online survey which aimed to understand how young people currently feel and how they want to feel in school. When students were asked how they currently feel in school, out of all the words respondents listed, approximately 75% were negative while just 23% were positive. The most common words these students used to describe their current emotions at school are “tired,” “stressed,” and “bored.” When asked how they want to feel in school, the top three emotions that students want to experience more are “happy,” “energized,” and “excited.” Dr. Brackett used the summit as a platform to call for action and stated that “We need to close the gap between what students are currently feeling and how they want to be feeling.” Brackett continued on to say that “we need to give young people and the adults who are teaching and raising them the tools and resources they need to creates schools and families where emotions matter!”

Please read the full article here:

http://www.stuvoice.org/2015/11/09/a-day-full-of-emotions-empowerment-and-gaga/

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