Eight core emotions
A clear foundation for noticing the emotional information present in an experience.
01 / Feel
Emotion
Matrix
Name what is moving beneath the surface.
A question to enter with
What core emotions are combining to create this experience?
A first look
One lens.
A wider view.
The Emotion Matrix is grounded in emotional intelligence and informed by psychologist Robert Plutchik’s psychoevolutionary theory of emotion. It begins with eight core emotions and explores how they combine into 28 distinct emotional blends. Across four reflection domains, Self, Relationships, Values, and Belonging, it helps you look beneath a complex experience and notice the information, needs, and energetic qualities within what you feel.
What this matrix can offer
More emotional clarity, a richer language for mixed feelings, and a more compassionate way to understand what is happening within you.
Twenty-eight blends
Familiar doorways into the mixed emotions that rarely arrive one at a time.
Four reflective domains
Explore what a feeling may reveal about self, relationships, values, or belonging.
A principle to carry
“The goal is not to find the perfect word. It is to become more honest, specific, and compassionate about what is moving.”
Go deeper
Meet the matrix
in practice.
The full matrices are designed to be explored slowly, with reflection, curiosity, and support. Workshops offer a guided place to begin.
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