Emotional competence

Emotional competence is the ability to recognize, understand, and respond to your own emotions and the emotions of other people. It is about understanding how emotions work, how they affect us, and how to manage them in a healthy way. A good way to think about emotional competence is like an onion. The outer layer of the onion is about recognizing emotions in yourself and others. The middle layers are about understanding why an emotion is happening and how that emotion is affecting people and situations. The inner layer is about managing emotions in a healthy way. So, emotional competence is like an onion where you learn to recognize, understand, and manage emotions in yourself and in others.