According to casel.org/what-is-sel/ -
“Social and emotional learning (SEL) is the process through which children and adults understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions.”
SEL comes down to five major components. Self awareness, self management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision making.
Self awareness is being able to accurately recognize the emotions of others. As well as their thoughts, and behaviour. This also takes in assessing someone’s positives and negatives.
Self management is the ability to keep one’s emotions under control. Along with their thoughts, and behaviors in different situations. Including stress management, impulse control, self-motivation, and setting a tone, or pace for oneself, towards a goal.
Social awareness is the ability to take another perspective, with sympathizing with someone else’s perspective. Whether from their background, or diverse culture and knowledge. This is to understand social and ethical behavior, and to recognize where they come from in their decision making,
Relationship skills are the ability to establish and consistently maintain a healthy relationship with people of different cultures, or backgrounds than oneself. Including communication, listening, cooperating, resisting inappropriate behaviors, talking out conflict constructively, and seeking outside help when needed.
Responsible decision making is the ability to take different factors into account. Such as who it will affect, how it could affect them, realizing how it will affect oneself as well. Seeing how the behavior could be reflected on others, and in what ways.