Essentials of Social and Emotional Intelligences explored the phenomena of the social and emotional intelligences (SEI). Through a multicultural humanistic psychological perspective, readers discovered that SEI are shared by more life forms than previously believed, and that the meanings of the human experience provide unique insight into these phenomena. This exploration was necessary because the current focus of study and instruction on social and emotional learning rests on superficial concepts of social and emotional phenomena. By exploring emotions beyond isolated, static concepts and reductionist definitions, new understanding emerge within diverse contexts – this supports one to transcend the dull confines of erudition and enter into the flowing, living moment of the here and now. Although SEI may have been explored in separate chapters in this book, that does not indicate they are isolated phenomena; rather, they are interrelated, interdependent, and blend like colors in a flowing watercolor painting.