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The roadmap is a summary of each of the stages of development of EQ Mentores which has been projected over the next 6 eras.
01 Positioning [Ellis]
The roadmap is a summary of each of the stages of development of EQ Mentores which has been projected over the next 6 eras.
01 Positioning [Ellis]
The roadmap is a summary of the development of EQ Mentores that has been projected into six eras, each named after historical figures who achieved personal fulfillment and who contributed to humanity and organizations different models of transformation that still exist. are still valid, and which we take as some of our main references in the field of psychology, coaching and mentoring. They are: Ellis, Rogers, Withmore, Satir, Goleman and Socrates. Each era focuses on a set of goals and functionality that will be delivered through multiple updates.
It should be noted that, although each era of EQ Mentores will be advanced sequentially, we have a team designated for each one in parallel, with research and innovation standards, the creation of new exclusive intervention models and constant improvement, all at the same time and in the different lines of action.
Our founder, Ruben Echavarria Clinical and Educational Psychologist with certification in organizational coaching. He graduated in 2009 from the University of San Buenaventura Medellín – Colombia. He began working with the Mayor's Office of Medellín and the National Ministry of Labor as a facilitator, sensitizer, trainer and social co-manager in processes of labor relations, entrepreneurship and human resource development until 2016.
Between 2016 and 2020, he works part-time at the Metropolitan Technological Institute (ITM) as a psycho-pedagogical advisor, helping hundreds of young people with limited resources to become well-rounded professionals by developing a mindset of success. The other half-time he works at the Inexhaustible Love Corporation as general director of psychosocial intervention, resocialization, human training and social inclusion programs aimed at improving the quality of life of different vulnerable populations.
Furthermore, in 2016 he founded the Vivace Musical Academy, where he created the Vivace Method, which combines the bases of music with the psychology of learning to help children and young people develop their personality, their social skills, their personal satisfaction, their discipline and even their academic performance.
In 2021 he founded and became part of the professional team of several Startups that have achieved great global positioning, such as Grupo 7A Global (eLearning Training and Consulting) and EQ Mentors (Psychology, Coaching and Mentoring).
The models that Rubén designs and implements are exclusive intervention models that are characterized by being highly transformational, high impact, with ethical and scientific standards and easy to articulate with current problems.
At this stage the aim is to go from being a small group and some first developments, to building a large community that involves different actors in different sectors of health, education and business, aiming at the construction of a better society.
Albert Ellis, founder of Rational Emotive-Behavioral Therapy (REBT), was the father of cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy and pioneer of short, directive psychotherapeutic intervention. The author of more than 70 books and 800 articles, Ellis has been considered by members of divisions 12 and 17 of the APA (American Psychological Association Clinical & Counseling Divisions) as the second most influential figure in the field of clinical psychology in the 20th century and the AAMFT (American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy) awarded it the fourth rank in the field of family therapy.
Ellis has received honors and distinctions from a number of professional associations, including: American Humanist Association, American Psychological Association, Academy of Psychologists in Marital and Family Therapy, American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists, and Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy.
He was a pioneer of the active-directive approach in marital, sexual, family, individual and group psychotherapy, focusing on the identification and change of the individual's dysfunctional ideas and beliefs to achieve emotional change, the reduction of psychopathology and the search for meaning. of personal well-being.
Ellis' innovative style included: telephone psychotherapy sessions, workshops, training programs and conferences around the world, participation in radio and television programs, recording his patients' sessions so they could review them later, videos of his REBT sessions as a teaching method for the public and professionals, homework assignments as part of psychotherapeutic work (including readings and behavioral “experiments”), “exercises to attack shame” and “rational images” as techniques to resolve emotional problems, and weekly demonstrations of “live” Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy, using volunteers from the public at his famous “Friday Night Workshop” at the Albert Ellis Institute in New York (Lega, Caballo, Ellis, 2002 ).
The Albert Ellis Institute (AEI) has 15 associated institutes in countries on five continents (Lega & Velten, 2005).
Among Albert Ellis's best-selling books, or those with the greatest influence in the field of clinical psychology, are: “How to Live with a Neurotic” (Ellis, 1957b); “Guiltless Sex” (Ellis, 1958); “The art and science of love” (Ellis, 1960); “A Guide to Successful Marriage” (Ellis & Harper, 1961); “Reason and emotion in psychotherapy” (Ellis, 1962); “How to refuse to torment yourself for nothing, yes, for nothing!” (Ellis, 1988); and “Better, Deeper, Longer Brief Therapy: Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy” and (Ellis, 1995).
FOUNTAIN: http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0120-05342008000100014
After the positioning era (Ellis), there is the Alliance era (Rogers), which is a period of growth and development for the community. This is considered a transition stage between individual work and collaborative growth.
The era of Alliances (Rogers) encompasses the first steps towards creating synergy. It is the beginning of a journey that leads to new relationships, strategic alliances and new discoveries, which will arrive gradually but significantly. During the Rogers era, the community was limited, but as we move into the Rogers era, new players are reached within the ecosystem of personal and organizational development. Once alliances are created for new events, participation and content creation, EQ mentors will be more decentralized and, as a result, enjoy greater reach and impact.
Carl Rogers was an American psychologist who was born in 1902 and died in 1987. He is one of the main representatives of humanistic psychology, a psychological school or current that highlights the importance of the person as a moral human being with a tendency to update and integrate. , valuing their capacity for achievement and personal growth.
Rogers was a very influential psychologist of his time and his work spanned more than 40 years. Among his main contributions is person-centered therapy. Until then, the dominant therapies were directive in nature, since they were derived from the medical approach where the psychologist, like the medical doctor, was the one who had the knowledge and told the patient what they should do.
This is why Rogers proposes a form of non-directive therapy, earning many opponents in his time, since he emphasizes the three pillars of his therapeutic approach to generate profound changes in people; the importance of empathy, authenticity and unconditional acceptance in the therapeutic relationship. He is also known for his research on personality and psychotherapy, in which he highlighted the importance of self-determination, self-esteem and self-concept.
Roger makes us understand that the relationship between psychologist and patient is already therapeutic in itself, since this is the cultivation field or platform to generate personal change.
Although his work was very extensive and deep and at times, it may seem a little dense and technical, we can understand it in a simpler and friendlier way in his book "The process of becoming a person." In it, Rogers recounts in an accessible and relatable way his own process of learning and personal growth, and presents his ideas about the importance of authenticity, empathy, and unconditional acceptance in our relationships with others and with ourselves. Rogers was also a social activist and defender of human rights, which led him to participate in various projects and social movements throughout his life.
FOUNTAIN: http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0120-05342008000100014
With the integration of new contracts, the Withmore era represents a major step forward in EQ Mentors' outreach capabilities. This stage adds greater capacity to contribute to communities and institutions, both public and private, with a properly trained and equipped professional team.
The joint work that has been carried out in parallel will allow users a more functional, fluid and memorable interaction. One of the objectives of the Withmore era has been the implementation of new resources and content that complement personalized support programs and provide significant experiences of growth and empowerment. In addition to a new simplified contracting system for complementary support to different schools, universities, compensation funds, agencies and employment exchanges, and micro, small and medium-sized companies in different Latin American countries.
John Henry Douglas Whitmore (John Whitmore), was a British executive coaching industry pioneer, author and racing driver. After leaving racing and the world of motorsports, he became interested in transpersonal psychology and its emphasis on the principle of will, intention or responsibility. He continued to apply his learning and skills, first in the world of sports and then in business.
He was a disciple of Tim Gallwey, one of the founders of the current business coaching, personal coaching and executive coaching movement; considered by many the father of modern coaching.
He was educated at Eton College, the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (which aims to be the “national center of leadership excellence”) and Cirencester Agricultural College. He married Diana Becchetti, who influenced him on the deepest aspects of the human psyche through the theories and practices of psychosynthesis.
He inherited the Baronet dignity granted by the British Crown from his father, and for this reason he was referred to as Sir.
In 1961 he won the British Saloon Car Championship racing a BMC Morris Mini-Minor. The following year he competed again, with a Mini Cooper, and came second, just two points behind Jack Sears. At the end of 1966 he retired from racing. He later returns driving cars at historic events such as the Goodwood Revival.
He coined the term “performance training” – this was the birth of the modern training movement as we know it.
In the early 1980s, he and his partners founded Performance Consultants, the world's leading provider of coaching, leadership development and performance improvement. Sir John and his colleagues spent much of the 1980s developing the methodology, concepts and techniques for improving performance in organizations and demonstrated that it was possible to improve performance, increase learning and enjoyment, and find a sense of purpose at work.
Fountain: https://www.internationalcoachingsociety.com/despidiendo-a-john-whitmore-1937-2017/
The Satir era of EQ Mentores is an era of making the necessary adjustments to achieve an adaptation to the new technologies and trends of the historical moment. This is an era of exhaustive review of internal processes that allows the analysis and modification of the limitations and obsolete processes that can be identified to achieve a better fit point with the needs of each population.
One of Satir's central developments will be a slowdown of processes to identify possible improvements.
Virginia Satir was recognized as one of the pioneering psychologists of family therapy. His theory has had an important impact on systemic approach psychotherapy, and also on the humanistic tradition of clinical psychology.
Satir was born in Neillsville in Wisconsin, United States. She is remembered as a self-taught woman, who even learned to read and write with her own teaching resources from a very young age.
When he was 13, the family moved to Milwaukee so Satir could start school. The same year the Great Depression began, so at a very early age Virginia began to work while continuing with her studies. Once this was completed, he began his university education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, formerly known as Milwaukee State Teachers College.
She studied at the Department of Social Services Administration at the University of Chicago, where she completed her graduate studies in 1948. She eventually trained as a social worker, a profession she practiced from 1951 until the beginnings of her own therapeutic model.
Once he finished his studies, Satir began working in a private practice, and by 1955, he was already working at the Illinois Psychiatric Institute. Among his main claims, Satir defended the need to analyze not only the individual; but to carry out in-depth analyzes of family dynamics.
He thought that psychology studies at an individual level were essential, however, they could not stop there, since this did not offer the necessary explanations or sufficient alternatives. For Satir, it was important to look at the first system that supports the individual, and this was the family. All of this introduced important novelties in the area of clinical and educational psychology, which finally laid the foundations for a new model of intervention or family therapy.
The headquarters was the city of Palo Alto, in California, and it quickly established itself as one of the most recognized institutions in psychological care at the family level. Among other things, it was from the interventions and research carried out at the Mental Research Institute that the bases of the systemic tradition in family psychotherapy were consolidated.
Satir's theory finally consolidated a model of personal growth, which had important implications in psychotherapy. This model mainly pursued four main objectives: Increase self-esteem, enhance decision making, assume personal responsibilities and achieve self-congruence.
Some of Virginia Satir's main works are Self-esteem, In intimate contact, Changing with relatives and All your faces. Likewise, he received various recognitions from different universities and psychotherapy associations around the world.
Fountain: https://psicologiaymente.com/biografias/virginia-satir
The Goleman era of EQ Mentores is an era of process optimization, improving scalability globally to provide our services and programs in different languages, starting in countries such as Spain, the United States, among others. While previous development eras focused on positioning and strategic alliances, Goleman seeks to improve team performance and models to give rise to new functionalities and applications to provide agile and effective support generating a high volume of transactions.
One of Goleman's central developments will be the introduction of new additional intervention channels to the website, such as our own app, with immense potential to expand the global reach of our services.
Daniel Goleman is one of the most famous psychologists in recent years, due to the international best-seller of his book: Emotional Intelligence (1995).
Currently, emotional intelligence is applied in many fields (clinical, organizations, sports) because it provides benefits for both mental health and sports or work performance.
Daniel Goleman was born in Stockton, California, where his parents were college professors. His father taught literature at San Joaquin Delta College, while his mother taught sociology classes at the University of the Pacific. Goleman, who was a great student, earned his bachelor's and doctorate in Clinical Development of Psychology and Personality from Harvard University, where he lectures and is a visiting professor.
In his book Emotional Intelligence, he explains that the skills of self-knowledge, self-discipline, persistence or empathy are more important for life than IQ (IQ), and he states that ignoring these skills is a risk for us.
Daniel Goleman currently lectures for business people, teachers, psychologists and other professional groups, but for many years he was a journalist at The New York Times, reporting on brain and behavioral science.
Additionally, Goleman co-founded the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) at the Yale University Child Studies Center (now at the University of Illinois at Chicago), which aims to help schools introduce language courses. Emotional Literacy, an important part of communicating emotions. Hundreds of schools around the world have begun implementing these courses.
When he was a student at Harvard University, his mentor was David McClelland, a renowned psychologist who developed the famous achievement theory. Thanks to him, Goleman began working at the famous PsychologyToday magazine. Although he wanted to be a teacher like his parents, writing caught his attention, and the magazine served as learning for the rest of his life and for his successful career as a writer and theorist.
Daniel Goleman has received various awards for his writing, including an award for his career as a journalist from the APA (American Psychological Association). He was nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize and has received numerous awards in recognition of his research and dissemination work.
He was co-chair of the Emotional Intelligence in Organizations Research Consortium located at the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University. This institution recommends best practices for the development of emotional intelligence skills, and promotes rigorous research for greater effectiveness of emotional intelligence in the workplace and organizations.
His first book was “The Varieties of Meditative Experience”, 1977 (later called: “The Paths of Meditation”), in which he described the different meditative systems. In addition to this, Goleman has written works such as: Triple focus (2016), The brain and emotional intelligence (2013), The power of emotional intelligence (2013), The creative spirit (2009), Ecological intelligence (2009), Intelligence emotional children and youth (2009), Transparency: How leaders forge a culture of sincerity (2008), Social intelligence. The new science of human relationships (2006), Emotional intelligence at work (2005), The resonant leader creates more (2003), Destructive emotions. How to understand and overcome them (2003), The practice of emotional intelligence (1999), Meditation and higher states of consciousness (1997), among others.
Fountain: https://psicologiaymente.com/biografias/daniel-goleman
The Socrates era of EQ Mentors will provide the final pieces needed for the platform to become a self-sustaining system. An innovation and voting system will be implemented to make way for new projects.
This phase will not only require a solid infrastructure, but also a great capacity for interaction, both within clients, professionals and active allies, as well as the community of external followers. To that end, the Socrates era guarantees the ability for participants to submit improvement proposals and new projects based on new trends, so that they can be voted on by the parties involved, taking advantage of the already existing participation and delegation process.
To finance the future development of the platform, the Socrates era also includes distribution of funds to different projects for the most vulnerable populations in different countries, in order to combat poverty and emotional illiteracy.
We are working on more content for this era of the roadmap and will update this page in due course.
Socrates was a Greek philosopher from the 5th century BC. C. (born in Athens in 470 BC and died in 399 BC at the age of 71), known for being one of the founders of Western philosophy and the first of the three main representatives of Greek philosophy ( along with Plato and Aristotle). Socrates was Plato's direct mentor. He managed to popularize the use of maieutics or "Socratic method" as a guide in the search for truth and knowledge.
He was the son of a stonemason (Sofronisco) and a matron (Fenáreta), and during his childhood he received a traditional Greek education in literature, music and gymnastics.
Before dedicating himself fully to philosophy, he worked as a bricklayer and sculptor alongside his father, and even served as a hoplite against Sparta during the Peloponnesian War. He spent most of his life in Athens, holding public debates with his fellow citizens and making use of maieutics or, in other words, guiding the search for truth and knowledge through continuous questioning of his interlocutor (dialectical method that It would later be baptized the "Socratic method" in his honor).
The main themes of his philosophy were: justice, love and virtue, as well as the effects of ignorance on evil and human vices.
Surprisingly, he did not leave any type of written legacy about his ideas. Everything that is known about him is through the works of Plato, Xenophon and Aristophanes.
Unfortunately for his contemporaries and philosophy in general, Socrates would be sentenced to death in 399 BC. C. for denying the Greek gods and trying to remove the youth of the time from ignorance. It is said that he was given the choice between taking poison or recanting all his teachings, preferring the first option, and he died at the age of 71. With and after him, Greek and Western philosophy would begin to be forged, a legacy that would be continued by the Socratic schools and the Platonic Academy. Many say that modern coaching has its roots in the Socratic method of asking powerful questions of others to stimulate the search for truth.
Fountain: https://www.saberespractico.com/biografias-resumidas/socrates/
