The EQ-SQ NPC deals with the significance of emotional and social intelligence for both concepts of leadership and concepts of personell development from the perspective of the brain research, psychoanalysis and the newly developed science direction of neuropsychoanalysis. From the knowledge of these research directions the most important criteria for EQ and SQ are derived and the corresponding concepts are made for leadership and development of employees, groups, teams, departments.

The objective perspective of the brain research and the experience dependent subjective perspective of the psychoanalysis offer a solid base for the concept of the coaching which is intended for the mastering of leadership and personnel development problems.

The concept of the coaching being considered was developed and is practiced by Alois Heinemann PhD since 1980 in the “Institut for Applied Sozialpsychology”. Initially the development was oriented at using the theory and practice of the psychoanalysis; it was confirmed and enriched by brain research and by the neuropsychoanalytic research and has got a bio-psycho-social perspective.

The theory and practice of the EQ-SQ NPC are based particularly on the research results of John Bowlby, Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, Daniel Stern (psychoanalysis); Lise Eliot, Antonio R. Damasio, Gerald Hüther, Eric Kandel, Gerhard Roth (brain research); Mark Solms, Oliver Turnbull (neuropsychoanalysis); Luc Ciompi (medicine/ social psychiatry), Karin and Karl Grossmann (psychology/relationship research); Reinhard Pekrun (personality psychology), Günther Schiepek (systemic therapy/synergetic); Hermann Haken (physics/synergetic); Walter Schulz (philosophy); Karl Popper (philosophie/science theory); Knut Bleicher, Peter M. Senge (organisation research).