Breathing Emotional Intelligence? Sylvain is not only a very good colleague of mine – he is one of the most successful early career researchers in sport psychology and especially emotional intelligence. Talking to Sylvain about his passion for research and how athletes can benefit from his knowledge was truly inspiring for me.

Every time I’m travelling to scientific conferences and Sylvain is there as well he is some kind of a celebrity. People want to talk to him, learn from him and are interested in his current experiments, or his specialties: emotional intelligence and breathing techniques. Everyone wants to know what he identified, how they can become more emotionally intelligent themselves or how they can help their athletes to achieve this.

When I asked Sylvain, whether he could imagine sharing something he knows about emotional intelligence I thought that emotional intelligence refers only to a person being able to identify what is going on in the people around him or her. Like a coach who has to be empathetic and understand all of his athletes in order to create a trusting relationships with them. Man, was I wrong. Emotional intelligence is way more than that – and I am so glad I talked with Sylvain and that he cleared many things up for me!

This episode is full of knowledge, practical tips how to become more emotionally intelligent & deal better with stress before, during and after competition – or every other situation that stresses you. …and if you want to know what Sylvain would have told Zinedine Zidane before headbutting Marco Materazzi in the 2006 FIFA World Cup final, this episode is for you!

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Todays guest

• Why Zinedine Zidane is responsible for Sylvain’s scientific career!
• Developing EQ: What is emotional intelligence, and most importantly what are the factors I should know when I’m trying to become more emotionally intelligent.
• EQ Assessment: How can we assess if we are emotionally intelligent – or not?!
• Breathing Techniques: How breathing is related to emotional intelligence.
• Emotional Intelligence & Slow Paced Breathing: How we can optimize our breath and how our heart benefits from it.
• Slow Paced Breathing: How Sylvain demonstrates other people how much influence their breath has on their heart and well-being.
• EQ Book: Why Sylvain wrote a book on emotional intelligence and how it can help you as an athlete or a coach!
• Sylvain’s amazing personal motto he lives his life by – and much more!

• Biofeedback App Sylvain uses when working with athletes
• Polar H10 – Heart rate sensor which is perfectly compatible with Elite HRV
• Sylvain’s book on emotional intelligence (available in German only – there’ll be an English language version in the future)