The environmental culture in the Canary Islands, the La Palma eruptioncontrol of emotions, grassroots sport as a tool for education in values… The Summer University of Adeje (UVA) has brought to an end a new edition addressing multi-faceted issues and attracting significant interest. The XXIX edition of the UVA says goodbye with a significant fact: 328 people have participated in the eight courses and two workshops proposed this year, which have had morning and evening sessions to enable the family reconciliation of the participants.
Among the professionals who attended his workshops and courses is the Botany researcher of the University of La Laguna (ULL), Jonay Cubas, who stated that “more environmental education is needed in the Canary Islands”. “It is vital that people know the problems that exist around natural heritage in order to offer solutions adapted to the environment,” Cubas clarified. The workshop participants toured the Barranco del Infierno Special Nature Reserve with the teacher. Cubas advocated “active management of all the flora of the Canary Islands, because the heat waves we are experiencing are producing prolonged droughts, hardly any water is arriving for the area to recover and, therefore, it is necessary to seek alternative solutions”.
The Summer University of Adeje dedicated three days to analyzing the eruption of the Tajogaite volcano in La Palma, from September 19 to December 13, 2021. It was attended by specialists from different fields, such as María Candelaria Martín Luis, from the Department of Animal Biology, Edaphology and Geology of the University of La Laguna. For her, “the volcano of La Palma has shown that it has greatly improved in coordination and communication compared to previous eruptions, both due to technological advances and because it has organizational structures and infrastructures that did not exist at the time of other large eruptions such as that of Teneguía in 1971».
Martín Luis stressed that “it has been the first eruption in national territory that has been exhaustively followed, which provides experience and has also served to verify the effectiveness of existing protocols.” He also detailed the role of the media, which in general terms has been exemplary. “They have not incurred in sensationalism,” concluded the teacher.
Before the concept of emotional intelligence was discussed, in the Western tradition there was already the conviction that emotions were like a runaway horse that had to be controlled. Over time, psychology has allowed us to better understand how these impulses work and what techniques to use to recognize and manage them in a way that is beneficial to the person experiencing them. That was the objective of the course of the Summer University of Adeje Emotional Intelligence. Tools for the analysis of our emotions and that of others, directed by Christian Robert Rosales, from the Department of Cognitive, Social and Organizational Psychology of the ULL. During the course numerous practical exercises were proposed that demonstrated how these four skills of emotional intelligence can be trained.
