TEG-Blue – The Emotional Gradient Blueprint
An Integrative Architecture for Emotional Intelligence
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About
What is TEG-Blue?
TEG-Blue (The Emotional Gradient Blueprint) is a visual framework for understanding emotional patterns — built on the principle that emotions are biological information, not irrational noise.
By mapping how our nervous system organizes around perceived safety and threat, TEG-Blue helps people name what's happening, regain their footing, and choose their next step. The framework synthesizes polyvagal theory, attachment theory, dual-process cognition, and trauma research — grounded in 65+ theories from neuroscience, psychology, and trauma research — into an integrative architecture.
Four components:
- Emotional Tools — +20 gradient scales and signal tests: What am I seeing?
- Circuit Board — 6 panels mapping personal and systemic coordinates: Where do my patterns come from?
- Inner Compass — 4 nervous system modes (Connection → Protection → Control → Domination): Where am I right now?
- The Map — 12 levels of pattern formation, escalation, and healing: Why does any of this happen?
The orientation-not-diagnosis philosophy treats emotional states as information rather than pathology — on a continuous gradient rather than in discrete categories.
Two parallel projects, one mission
- teg-blue.com — Practical tools and guided experiences for individuals and professionals. This is where people use the system.
- teg-blue.org — Open-access research, published frameworks, and collaborative science. This is where people study, validate, and build on it.
Your support funds the open science side: empirical validation, open-access publication, and research coordination. The practical tools at teg-blue.com sustain the project. The science that makes them possible lives here — and it belongs to everyone.
Published research
"Detecting Regulatory States in Natural Language" (Zenodo, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18428907) analysed 10,000+ posts and found that self-awareness predicts whether individuals escalate toward harm or return to connection when challenged. Pre-registered on OSF (osf.io/f4x6y).
What we're building toward
- Continued empirical validation of the four-mode gradient
- Peer-reviewed publication of the framework levels
- Open tools for educators, therapists, and researchers worldwide
Who's behind it
Created by Anna Paretas-Artacho — a visual designer and systems thinker with 25+ years of experience who saw the gap between how emotional science is studied and how people actually need to use it.
ORCID: 0009-0005-2394-7162
Why open science?
Emotional intelligence shouldn't be gatekept. The frameworks behind TEG-Blue are designed to be studied, tested, challenged, and improved by anyone. Open Collective funds this commons — so the science stays accessible while the work of building it stays sustainable.
TEG-Blue (The Emotional Gradient Blueprint) is a visual framework for understanding emotional patterns — built on the principle that emotions are biological information, not irrational noise.
By mapping how our nervous system organizes around perceived safety and threat, TEG-Blue helps people name what's happening, regain their footing, and choose their next step. The framework synthesizes polyvagal theory, attachment theory, dual-process cognition, and trauma research — grounded in 65+ theories from neuroscience, psychology, and trauma research — into an integrative architecture.
Four components:
- Emotional Tools — +20 gradient scales and signal tests: What am I seeing?
- Circuit Board — 6 panels mapping personal and systemic coordinates: Where do my patterns come from?
- Inner Compass — 4 nervous system modes (Connection → Protection → Control → Domination): Where am I right now?
- The Map — 12 levels of pattern formation, escalation, and healing: Why does any of this happen?
The orientation-not-diagnosis philosophy treats emotional states as information rather than pathology — on a continuous gradient rather than in discrete categories.
Two parallel projects, one mission
- teg-blue.com — Practical tools and guided experiences for individuals and professionals. This is where people use the system.
- teg-blue.org — Open-access research, published frameworks, and collaborative science. This is where people study, validate, and build on it.
Your support funds the open science side: empirical validation, open-access publication, and research coordination. The practical tools at teg-blue.com sustain the project. The science that makes them possible lives here — and it belongs to everyone.
Published research
"Detecting Regulatory States in Natural Language" (Zenodo, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18428907) analysed 10,000+ posts and found that self-awareness predicts whether individuals escalate toward harm or return to connection when challenged. Pre-registered on OSF (osf.io/f4x6y).
What we're building toward
- Continued empirical validation of the four-mode gradient
- Peer-reviewed publication of the framework levels
- Open tools for educators, therapists, and researchers worldwide
Who's behind it
Created by Anna Paretas-Artacho — a visual designer and systems thinker with 25+ years of experience who saw the gap between how emotional science is studied and how people actually need to use it.
ORCID: 0009-0005-2394-7162
Why open science?
Emotional intelligence shouldn't be gatekept. The frameworks behind TEG-Blue are designed to be studied, tested, challenged, and improved by anyone. Open Collective funds this commons — so the science stays accessible while the work of building it stays sustainable.
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