We believe in Emotionally Intelligent Builders and ChangeMakers
Emotional Intelligence is the single most important precursor for success in business and in life.

Strong social emotional skills differentiate exceptional professionals from the average. We have created one of the very few efficacy-proven Emotional Intelligence training programs in the world, EASEL®, experiential social emotional learning and therapy. EASEL helps strengthen the participants’ own social emotional skills and teaches the methodology for use in own work. You get measurable results in the business world, in schools, in social and health care sector, in families and in psychotherapy.

Knowledge of EASEL’s Process of Building Relationships and Communities, strong Emotional Intelligence and fine-tuned Social Awareness make you a brilliant leader of people, a teacher, a coach, a therapist etc. They are essential in building great teams and leading others with example and consensual leadership, bringing up balanced children, healing others, and motivating even the most difficult clients to grow and change what needs to be changed.

Change is unavoidable in life and in business but it does not have to be overly difficult or take long. However, growth as a person, professional or organisation is a choice. We believe people do their best and will make necessary changes, as long as certain key precursors are in place. If you or your people don’t make the needed changes, you are off the mark somehow. If the TV is broken, fixing the toaster isn’t helpful. ET’s Founder Mari Louhi-Lehtio is internationally experienced multi-professional consult and coach of professionals and leaders whose work demands strong interpersonal skills. She can help you make any change you need to make in personal or professional life and she will walk you through how to build great teams, precursors for change and to motivate your people to grow and become even better at what they do.

In today’s busy life and constant flood of information our connection to each other and to own inner world gets easily disturbed. Modifying the old proverb about teaching people to fish instead of feeding them, paying attention to social emotional skills and compassion increases wellbeing because people can take better care of themselves and those around them. EASEL® Facilitators are trained to integrate EASEL tools and coaching principles into their professional work.

According to scientific research from the past two decades, there is a strong connection between physical and psychological health and emotion regulation. Wellbeing, happiness, inner motivation and sense of meaning thrive in relationships that are based on mutual respect, attuning communication, trust and compassion. Social emotional skills are strongly connected to e.g. academic and social success, self‐confidence, stress management and resilience, leadership skills, efficacy of psychotherapy, subjective experience of happiness and rewarding relationships, and physical and mental health.

EASEL® holds the belief that all children and most of us adults can and want to do better if we just know what to do and how. People don’t need therapy until a situation feels over-whelming and in most cases things wouldn’t have to get that far. People don’t need a degree in psychology to be great leaders, teachers or parents. What we all do need is some basic knowledge of how the brain learns throughout life in every connection with other people and the environment. A guided tour to Self without the need to go to therapy or share with strangers all our private thoughts. Tools to figure out why we sometimes react and think later, and to see the many possible reasons or our own influence on why someone behaves the way s/he does. Everyone benefits from some basic psychology of health, relationships and raising kids. And some knowledge of the normal stages individuals, groups and families go through, and what are the usual problem spots. And you have the right to invest in yourself and people around you by taking a day or three to focus on the above without multitasking on one of our workshops!

The top experience for you will be joining us at Savikko Farm (savikontila.fi) just outside of Helsinki, an hour from the airport. The experiential activities that we can provide at Savikko place you in a state of active problem-solving on a higher level. The activities are designed to produce a natural process that you can investigate. As in life and relationships in general, the activities are open and shaped by everyone in that moment. The facilitators’ job is to individually guide each client’s exercise so that s/he can safely and productively investigate alternative ways of being, thinking, and doing. The learning arising from this is profound and unlike anything else.

Experiential social emotional learning (EASEL) refers to learning about self and self in relation to others in authentic real-life situations and environments selected for the sessions. The psycho-educational tools are experiential and the biggest “adventure” happens always in the mind. But at Savikko we may include work with EASEL -trained horses. While we can use experiential elements like every-day situations at work, school work or fixing a bike, play and arts, or adventure in nature, “the master class” is with EASEL horses. You don’t have to know anything about horses or and you can even be afraid. You will be safe but we can promise that your experience will change the way you think about yourself and relationships, and horses.