How Emotional Intelligence Builds Happiness | Yellow Day
Factors like warm weather, abundant sunlight, and a more positive social environment contribute to the widespread feeling of well-being that lets us associate June 20 as the happiest day of the year. Beyond its symbolic value, it is an excellent opportunity to reflect on what truly builds happiness in our lives, especially within complex social contexts.
As one of the foundations in Mexico with the greatest social impact, the Letty Coppel Foundation understands that emotional well-being is key to community development. Through our social programs, we promote social entrepreneurship as part of our social assistance in Mexico, helping people in vulnerable environments improve their quality of life.
Emotional Intelligence as the Foundation for Success
The Foundation has integrated emotional intelligence as a fundamental base in each of its social programs. This approach teaches participants to build strong interpersonal relationships in both social and work settings, allowing for more effective and conflict-free communication.
It also fosters transformative resilience, which goes beyond simply “enduring.” It helps participants discover opportunities within adversity, and through our workshops, we show them how to take advantage of these to turn situations around and grow from them.
This approach positions the Letty Coppel Foundation as a pioneer in a model where social assistance in Mexico not only relieves but unlocks human potential.
Social Programs with an Emotional Focus
The Letty Coppel Foundation organizes workshops designed to provide concrete tools to generate income while also reinforcing self-esteem and identity.
Many beneficiaries are seniors who, due to various circumstances, feel disconnected from productive life or their surroundings. Through these activities, they reconnect with their purpose, overcome loneliness, and feel like active community members again.
Recognized for its commitment to comprehensive development, the Letty Coppel Foundation offers self-employment workshops such as baking, hairdressing, and jewelry making. All workshops are developed with an emotional focus, generating a strong impact on emotional intelligence—particularly among older adults, aiming to combat feelings of being a burden, losing purpose, and social isolation.
Through these workshops, their self-esteem is transformed—and with it, their entire lives. This is the true meaning of our social assistance in Mexico: restoring people’s capacity to dream and fight for those dreams, proving that when people believe in their potential, they can transform their lives.
By consciously working on emotional intelligence, we cultivate the ability to regulate moods, interpret criticism constructively, and maintain hope in adversity—transforming crises into opportunities.
This impact is seen, for example, in single mothers who discover their entrepreneurial potential and begin generating income for their families, as well as older adults who regain their sense of purpose.
Emotional intelligence is no longer an abstract concept, but an emotional survival kit for tough times—where every skill learned is a step toward a more fulfilling and meaningful life.
Creating Real Change
These social programs show how social assistance in Mexico can create real change when combining practical support with emotional development. This Yellow Day, the Letty Coppel Foundation reaffirms its commitment as one of the foundations in Mexico that understands true happiness is built when emotional intelligence becomes practical tools, and human-focused programs break paradigms.
This Yellow Day, instead of discussing superficial happiness, the Letty Coppel Foundation celebrates the ability to build it through support, knowledge, empathy, and action—serving as a springboard where social programs are measured not in kilos of food distributed, but in lives transformed.
That’s why, in our view, social assistance must go beyond covering needs—it must offer possibilities, self-esteem, inclusion, and dreams to pursue. Because each transformed life story is not just another number—it is a reflection of the power of emotional intelligence applied in community.
Would you like to be part of the change?
Join our programs or share this initiative with those who could benefit.
Happiness is also built in community.
