Emotions Wheel 🎡

An emotional literacy tool

Hello friends,

Today's topic is emotional literacy - the ability to express your emotional state and communicate your feelings.

If you have well-development emotional literacy, you're typically able to recognize and respond to the emotional states of others. This is essential for strong, healthy relationships both inside and outside work.

As children, we started out with basic words for general feelings: happiness, sadness, anger and a few others. As we grew, we added frustration, disappointment, excitement and so forth. Even so, many of us still find ourselves limited by our set of available words for feelings. In practice, there are hundreds of different emotions - many of them very nuanced.

As part of our focus on preventing burnout, we developed an interactive emotions wheel. Inspired by the original wheel that Robert Plutchik created in the 80s.

In our first iteration of the tool, you can visit the wheel and select which general feeling you're having. Then you can dig 1 or 2 layers deeper to hone in on a more specific word. You'll find emotions you had forgotten existed and maybe discover some new ones.

Have a play with it and let us know what features or content we could add that would make it more valuable for you.