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Dr. Rick Stevenson Featured Filmmaker. Philosopher. Listener.

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  • Unleashing Your Emotional Immune System
  • Master or Victim: The Infinite Knowledge of Harold and the Purple Crayon
  • IQ vs. EQ: If Knowledge is Power, Self-Knowledge is Superpower
  • Storytelling 101: The Key to All Human Communication and Connectedness
  • Who's Puppet Are You?
  • How to Manage the 40 Thoughts that Fill Your Mental Hard Drive
  • Who's Writing your Autobiography?
  • EQ: Your Most Valuable Asset
  • How Movies Can Grow our EQ

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  • 2024 The StoryQ Method: Finding Our Place in the World
  • 2019 21 Things You Forgot About Being A Kid

Rick Stevenson is leading the practice of guided verbal journaling and to unlock self-discovery, emotional intelligence and personal narrative empowerment.

He has filmed over 6000 in-depth interviews with kids and teens from 12 countries as part of a longitudinal project using his StoryQ method of inquiry dedicated to raising emotional intelligence. He is a creative and passionate combination of award-winning filmmaker and Doctor of Philosophy from Oxford University. He has directed, produced, and/or written twelve feature films and 100 hours of television, working with artists such as Robert Redford, Hugh Grant, Christopher Plummer, Kiefer Sutherland, Meg Ryan, and Patrick Dempsey. He’s an author, a public speaker, a husband, and a father of four who splits his time between Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, British Columbia.


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