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The Emergence of Emotional Intelligence and Spiritual Sensibility in an
Intensive Spiritual Program
Asun Puche & Luis Botella
FPCEE Blanquerna
Universitat Ramon Llull
Spiritual Sensitivity (2s)
The Spiritual Sensitivity (2s) of a
person is greater to the extent that
his/her patterns of thought,
meaning attribution , awareness,
and consciousness allow him/her:
To transcend
the obvious
and to
operate from
patterns of
post-formal
thinking.
Spiritual Sensitivity (2s)
To be maximally
aware of
him/herself, the
world and his/her
own place in it.
Spiritual Sensitivity (2s)
To be maximally
aware of the multi-
dimensional patterns
that mutually link
him/herself to the
systems that he/she
is embedded in.
Spiritual Sensitivity (2s)
To recognize the
constructed nature
of the limits between
the self, the world
and the others, and
consequently, the
intrinsic unicity of
reality.
Spiritual Sensitivity (2s)
To place his/her actions
and his/her life in a
wider (self-
transcendence), deeper
(reflexivity), and more
meaningful context.
Spiritual Sensitivity (2s)
To interact with the
world that he/she
is part of, by being
focused in the
here and now.
Spiritual Sensitivity (2s)
To be maximally
aware of his/her
belonging to a
global community.
Spiritual Sensitivity (2s)
Emotional Intelligence
The ability to perceive emotions, to
use
(integrate) emotions to facilitate
thinking,
to understand emotions, and to
regulate emotions (Salovey&Mayer).
Goal of the Study
To clarify the relations between
Spiritual Sensibility and Emotional
Intelligence through an in-depth
qualitative analysis of a first-person
narrative of a participant in an
intensive spiritual program (the 30-day
Ignatian Spiritual Exercises Retreat).
Intensive Spiritual Program : 30-day Ignatian Spiritual
ExercisesThe Ignatian Spiritual Exercises are an
intensive
Christian spiritual practice to help people
attain
a state of unitive consciousness so as to be
“contemplative in action”.
Participant
The narrative analyzed in this case
study corresponds to a 33 years old
women, Catholic nun, who
participated for the first time in the
intensive spiritual program.
Instruments
Spontaneous self-biographic
narrative in a diary format that was
elaborated by the participant
throughout de 30-day duration of
the program.
Procedure
In-depth qualitative analysis by
means of a combination of a
Grounded Theory Methodology and
methods of textual discourse
analysis.
Results
The analysis of the self-biographic
narrative yielded 73 categories grouped
in 6 core categories: (1) Contextual
Information, (2) Daily Organization, (3)
Reflexive Comments, (4) Experience of
the Spiritual Exercises, (5) Synthetic
Summary (6) Global Evaluation.
Results
The 73 emergent categories were
classified according to the
components of the Spiritual
Sensitivity (2s) and Emotional
Intelligence (EI), and they were
distributed thus:
SE1P
ostfo
rmal
Thi
nkin
g
SE2S
elf-a
waren
ess
SE3S
yste
mic a
waren
ess
SE4A
war
enes
s of
uni
city
SE5S
elf-t
rans
cend
ence
SE6H
ere
and
now
SE7A
war
enes
s of
com
mun
ity
IE1P
erce
ivin
g
IE2U
sing
IE3U
nder
stan
ding
IE4R
egul
atin
g0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
50
1820
12 13
43
16
6
19
26
19
25
Total Units of Analysis in Each Category
Discussion
The distribution of the unities and
their overlap shows the relation
between Spiritual Sensitivity and
Emotional Intelligence, and with the
Spiritual Exercises.
Discussion
At least, in the context of the
analyzed case study, Emotional
Intelligence could be considered a
manifestation of Spiritual Sensitivity
applied to the field of emotions.
Discussion
Nevertheless, to extend this
conclusion to a more generic
context depends on the meaning
attributed to the term “spiritual”.
Discussion
If the spiritual experience is
considered as another field of
human experience, then the
relationship between 2s and EI
should not be that of subordination
but of hierarchical horizontality.
Genetic capicity to construe
experience
Intellectual experience
IQ
Emotional experience
EI
Spiritual experience
SE
Musical experience
Musical sensitivity
Body experience
Kinesthetic intelligence
Artistic experience
Aesthetic sensitivity
Discussion
If the spiritual experience is
considered superordinate to the
others (i.e. as founded in the full
awareness that sustains the
experience of all the others) then it is
coherent to represent it as
hierarchically superior.
Spiritual Sensitivi
ty
Emotional
Experience
“Beyond what we feel, even if it happens in
our bodies, in the depths of our selves,
there is an invisible presence”.