About Us
“Educating the mind without the heart is no education at all”
The Applied Centre for Emotional Literacy Leadership and Research (ACELLR) was established in 2009 to assist and support, businesses, educators and health care staff who were not only asking many of these questions but want answers to these questions. Our centre was launched in June 2009, by one of the pioneers of emotional intelligence, Jack Mayer.
The inspirational for our Centre emanates from Honorary Professor Richard Majors’ work on emotional literacy in Europe. In 2009 and 2010 respectively. Majors was the recipient of 2 Transfer of Innovation (TOI) awards from the European Union (EU) for his research and intervention with various groups on emotional intelligences and wellness.
We are a group of professionals who have many years of experiences in: emotional intelligence, emotional literacy, “soft skills”, communications, strategic planning, organisational performance, executive/corporate coaching, cultural competence, benchmarking and assessment among other areas that are crucial for effective performance driven communication in the workplace.
Workshops and Seminars are provided by Honorary Professor Richard Majors who is the Director of the Applied Centre of Emotional Literacy, Research & Leadership (ACELLR).
ACELLR provides prescribed and tailor made Master Classes, workshops and training programmes which focus on helping Public and Private Sector Organisations, Educators and Health & Social Care providers to improve emotional literacy and acquire the appropriate “soft skills” and performance targets to be successful and reach both the individual and company’s aims and goals.
Realising that time is one of the most valuable commodities in businesses and health care. The Applied Centre of Emotional Literacy, Research & Leadership (ACELLR), has developed a range of full day and half day workshops/master courses that aim to build core “soft skills”, that are required to optimize performance and outcomes in the work place. The Essential Business Soft Skills workshops are ideal for those who may be new to industry or wishing to improve their performance with the least amount of disruption to their working day
Distinguished Fellow, Dr Richard Majors
Dr. Richard Majors is a Counselling Psychologist and Honorary Professor at the University of Colorado in the United States, who has been living and working in the UK for over 20 years. He is the founder and former deputy editor of the Journal of African American Studies (formerly the Journal of African American Men), one of the largest ethnic journals in the US.
Senior Fellow, Dr. Hall
Ronald E. Hall graduated with distinction, after which his professional career began as a clinical social worker. His professional role encompassed the practice of individual and group psychotherapy with schizophrenic and manic-depressive clients. Subsequent to numerous clinical observations, Dr. Hall incorporated the notion of skin color, among people of color, as a critical dynamic of mental health.
Senior Fellow, Dr Simmons
Llew is a former Assistant Professor at the University of Dayton, Department of Education Leadership, in Ohio. He is currently the Director of Academics for the Bermuda Ministry of Education. As a partner and Senior Fellow for the Applied Centre of Emotional Literacy, Research & Leadership (ACELLR) he brings his k-12 teaching and counselling, to higher education knowledge and skills.
Fellow, Dr. Steven Clarke
Dr Clarke is an experienced chartered educational psychologist, who has worked with children and young people for over thirty years. His areas of interest and expertise are; children and young people with social and emotional behavioural difficulties and children and young people who experience difficulties with acquiring learning.
Jagjit Kaur, Community Specialist Advisor
Jagjit had a degenerative eye condition Keratoconus, at an early stage in her career, her reduced vision changed her outlook on life and she became driven by a sense of purpose and passion, and feels with all her experience now, at this stage in her life is able to fully pursue these values and help others to do this too.
Sam Gallagher, ACELLR Research Assistant
Currently, Sam is undertaking his Psychology degree in the city of Sheffield. Sam maintains a particular interest in areas such as Emotional Literacy, Education, Counselling Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Social and Affective Neuroscience. Recently, Sam has spent time working for Sheffield City Council as a research assistant within their Educational Psychology Department.
