Emotional Training Academy

SCEPTrE, University of Surrey, Guildford

November 26th, 2009, 12:30-16:00 (including sandwich lunch)

Facilitator: Dr Paulo Lopes, Faculty of Economics and Management

Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon

Purpose: Helping students prepare for the challenging and emotionally complex interpersonal situations they will encounter in the workplace is an important dimension of learning for a complex world. This Training Academy will be particularly relevant to educators and advisors interested in supporting students’ personal and professional development and helping them prepare for the workplace.

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Our expectation is that a training film will be made of this workshop

The Academy will be led by Dr Paulo Lopes, a SCEPTrE Fellow, who has been developing this approach and testing it with students both with and without work experience. Paulo earned his B.A. in Economics and Ph.D. in Psychology from Yale University. He is Assistant Professor at the Catholic University of Portugal’s School of Economics and Management, where he teaches on the Masters, MBA and Executive Education programs. His teaching focuses on managing people, emotional intelligence, and conflict management. He is a Visiting Fellow and was Senior Lecturer at the University of Surrey, in England, where he also taught social psychology focusing on emotions, interpersonal interaction, and conflict. His research focuses on the development of interpersonal and emotional skills in adulthood, and he has published more than 15 journal articles and book chapters on these topics. In his earlier career, he worked in business and journalism, and co-directed an award-winning documentary film.