UNBOX EMOTIONALÂ
INTELLIGENCE™️
Level 1 - Self-Leadership
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A powerful emotional intelligence course to help you master yourself and live an intentional life
Start With Your Free Explorer Module 24 lessons • guided reflections • development planÂ
Why does insight disappear the moment pressure rises?
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You know the concepts. You’ve done the learning.
But when it counts, old patterns take over.
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This is where self-leadership gets real.Â
Welcome To Your
 Self-Leadership Mastery Course
This course shows you how Emotional Intelligence shapes your everyday situations, why your best intentions still get interrupted, and how to begin making more
conscious choices.
How The Journey Unfolds
From Emotional Autopilot to Self-Leadership
 Most people don’t struggle because they lack insight.
They struggle because their nervous system, beliefs,
and emotional habits pull them back into familiar responses.
In this course overview, you’ll see how the five modules, lessons, and integration work together to support your 90‑day development plan.
Module 1 helps you reset your understanding of Emotional Intelligence.
It challenges common assumptions and gives you a new lens on why good intentions still get interrupted and why awareness alone doesn’t always lead to change.
This module lays the foundation.
Module 2 is where things become personal.
Here, you explore your emotional blueprint: your personality patterns, beliefs, values, mindset, and emotional archetype.
This module delves into the different layers that influence your way of being.
Module 3 brings that understanding into real life.
You start noticing patterns as they happen and learn to recognise your emotional triggers early, before they take over.
This module is about regaining choice in everyday moments.
Module 4 is about shifting how you respond.
You work with practical reflection and grounding tools to gently change patterns that no longer serve you.
This is where insight starts turning into visible change.
And Module 5 focuses on integration.
Because awareness alone doesn’t change behaviour.
You get to build your 90-day self-leadership development plan.
This module helps you anchor a new way of being
Across five modules, you’ll move from noticing your patterns to actively reshaping how you respond under pressure.
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Start with the free Explorer Module to experience Module 1,
or enrol in the full Self‑Leadership Journey,
when you’re ready for deeper work.
Choose How You Want To Start
Most Emotional Intelligence courses teach concepts.
This one trains self-leadership.
You won’t just learn what emotions are. You’ll understand how your personality, values, beliefs, and triggers shape your reactions — and how to choose differently in real time.
Because insight alone doesn’t change behaviour.
Practice does.
THIS JOURNEY IS FOR YOU IF…
 ...You are ready to grow emotionally, not just perform better.
...You’re tired of repeating old emotional patterns.
...You want success without exhaustion.
...You’ve done everything “right” — and it still doesn’t feel like enough.
Self-leadership begins the moment you stop waiting — and start choosing.
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Meet Your HostÂ
Hi, I’m Petra. It’s my pleasure to meet you.
I’ve spent years working with capable, self‑aware people who are deeply committed to their growth, yet keep getting pulled back into the same patterns.
I recognised that place immediately, because I’d lived it myself.
When I burned out in my mid‑twenties, I couldn’t explain it.
On the outside, everything looked fine. I was doing what I thought
I should be doing. But inside, something wasn’t lining up.
I later realised I had mastered performance while living by emotional rules
that no longer reflected who I wanted to be.
That realisation changed everything.
Most of us are leading from emotional blueprints we didn’t consciously choose. We adapt to family norms, cultural expectations, or survival patterns,
and over time they become invisible.
That’s why we stay stuck in familiar roles, relationships, or careers,
even when we know there must be more.
Self‑leadership begins when we dare to question what no longer serves us
and consciously shape who we want to become next.
If that feels a little scary and a little exciting, you’re in the right place.
Welcome!
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— Petra Owusu-Brandstaeter
Executive Coach | Emotional Intelligence Trainer
CEO of Unbox Leadership Consulting
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