Engage 1B People Practicing Emotional Intelligence

We’re launching Six Seconds Impact Area

At Six Seconds, we believe emotional intelligence (EQ) is the key to a thriving future—especially for young people. That’s why we’ve launched a bold new strategy for our Social Impact Area, designed to expand partnerships, engage our global network, and create measurable change for youth wellbeing.

What’s New?

Our Social Impact Area will drive greater collaboration, helping us reach more young people with the skills they need for the future. This strategy has three key pillars:

1. Partnerships for Greater Reach
   We’re actively building collaborations with organizations that align with our mission—leveraging resources, funding, and expertise to scale our work. Through these partnerships, we’ll bring emotional intelligence training, tools, and advocacy to new communities worldwide. Do you have an organization you think would be a great partner? Introduce us!
2. Activating Our Global Network
   Our thousands of certified practitioners now have three ways to participate:
• Service Projects – Leading EQ Cafés, POP-UP Festivals, and Climate of Emotions events to bring emotional intelligence directly into communities.
• Fundraising – Helping raise awareness and support for key initiatives, including Annual Giving and specific youth-focused campaigns.
• Advocacy – Using their voices to spread the importance of EQ and introduce Six Seconds to potential partners and funders.
3. Measuring & Sharing Our Impact
   We’re investing in impact measurement—creating tools to assess how our programs improve wellbeing, and expanding our research initiatives to publish data-driven stories. This will allow us to continuously refine our approach and share results with our supporters.

How You Can Help

Your support powers this work. Whether through donations, introductions to potential partners, or sharing our mission, you’re part of a global movement making EQ accessible to all.

As we embark on this next phase, we invite you to stay engaged—together, we can equip the next generation with the emotional intelligence skills they need to create a better future.

Thank you for being part of this journey. Let’s make 2025 a year of transformative impact!

With gratitude-

Patty

Links:

• want to join us to make impact?

The Climate of Emotions activation at NYC Climate Week 2024 was a roaring success! We had a sold out event in September for our first live Climate of Emotions (COE) activation. Climate of Emotions brings people together to learn more about emotions and their role in the climate crisis so we can have more inner sustainability and increase capacity for change. Together with our partners Narrative 4 and Unthinkable, we held a 3 hour event for 100 participants. 

COE design has three parts:

Grieving in Connection -- We come together and share emotions (for many people this is grief) because we are humans in a time of a crisis. We respect the diversity of people, who they are, where they come from, what they are feeling so we begin a process of connection.

Radical Reimagination- We create something together and practice new ways of seeing and thinking about things. This part is joyful, expressive and helps us build energy through creative collaboration.

Regenerative Planning- We take our fresh ideas and perspectives to make future plans. This is both individual and collective-- what new skills and strengths have we developed inside ourselves and what new friendships, partnerships, alliances have we forged that we can leverage in the future?

Why is COE different from other activiations?

It is fun, joyful, and active. It centers YOUTH -- they are the speakers, leaders and facilitators.  It brings emotions into the room and values epression, collaboration and community. It engages both thinking and feeling.

Here are a few takeaways from the event:

“All emotions are valid and should be listened to.”

“Emotions may come and go but that is important is how we react to them. If we get carried away with our emotions they become harder to communicate for us and harder to understand and perceive others. So basically chill out a bit, take a breather and communicate with a cooler head.”

“I can see the power and impact of our emotions to engage in climate change activism and the importance of support.”

“We need more spaces to be vulnerable. More normalization of sharing emotions. More space for working through not ignoring climate emotions.

“Emotions are useful tools towards collective action. By sharing and working through our emotions together we can use them to inspire and create solutions.”

We had a fantastic film crew documenting the event–and will share a short film on our social media channels soon. In addition, we are conducting a study on the effectiveness of the COE program by measuring participants' pre and post assessment scores. Preliminary results are encouraging!  We see the intervention having an impact on reducing levels of Climate powerlessness, Climate isolation and Climate anxiety and increasing levels of Climate enthusiasm for participants. We are preparing to submit a paper on these findings this year.

We can’t wait to see how much more impact progress we can make with Climate of Emotions. Thank you for all your support on this project.

With gratitude-

Patty

Links:

• for more information about Climate of Emotions