Emotional Tools of TEG-Blue — Emotional Intelligence Made Visible

Emotional intelligence made visible

These graphics are previews of TEG-Blue’s visual tools.

They show how complex emotional patterns — like self-awareness, manipulation, and abuse cycles — can be plained in a way that’s simple to see, compare, and understand.

What you see here are just snapshots, not the full tools.

In the full Blueprint, each visual is paired with detailed explanations, field guides, and interactive formats designed to help readers, educators, and practitioners apply them in real life.

Self-Awareness Hyperbola

A spectrum showing how emotional intelligence can heal—or twist into control.

This spectrum shows how self-awareness can evolve into healing—or twist into superiority and control. It explains the difference between using empathy to connect versus using it for manipulation, helping you see where someone falls on the curve.

Colorful diagram titled “The Self-Awareness Hyperbola.” Shows how emotional intelligence can grow into healing or twist into control. Ranges from no self-awareness → balanced awareness → manipulation → malicious intent. Includes spectrum of empathy, accountability, and power.

Green Flags Challenge

Spot the signs of respect, trust, and healthy emotional connection.

This tool focuses on positive signs of emotional safety—listening, respecting boundaries, celebrating success, and taking responsibility. It helps you recognize who genuinely supports and uplifts you, not just who avoids harm.

Honest Self-Reflection vs. Superiority Complex

The key difference between real confidence and superiority disguised as strength.

This comparison chart shows the difference between healthy confidence and superiority disguised as strength. It helps you see when self-love is rooted in empathy and accountability—or when it’s being used as a mask for control.

Green Flags Challenge

Spot the signs of respect, trust, and healthy emotional connection.

Measuring Emotional Maturity

Three quick signals—self-awareness, empathy, and remorse—that reveal emotional safety.

This quick test highlights three core signals—self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and self-reflection. It helps you understand whether someone is capable of growth and repair, emotionally unsafe, or actively harmful.

Infographic titled “Measuring Someone’s Emotional Maturity.” Shows three categories: self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and self-reflection with yes/sometimes/no options. Explains how combining these signals reveals whether someone is safe to build with, emotionally unsafe, or emotionally dangerous.

Value System vs. Real Thinking & Actions

When words and values don’t match behavior, trust the actions—not the claims.

This tool helps you compare what people say they value with how they actually behave. It shows the gap between belief systems and real actions, making it easier to recognize when values are being used as decoration instead of guiding consistent, respectful choices.

Infographic titled “Value System vs. Real Thinking & Actions.” Compares ideal values (empathy, accountability, authenticity) with how they can be distorted or contradicted in reality. Highlights the gap between what people claim and how they act.

Manipulation Unmasked: Identify Manipulation & Emotional Control

A scale to see if behaviors are healthy, unhealthy, manipulative, or abusive.

This scale lets you analyze behavior across four levels—healthy, unhealthy, manipulative, and abusive. By comparing patterns, you can see whether someone takes responsibility or twists reality, helping you spot when relationships are unsafe.

Color-coded chart titled “Manipulation Unmasked.” Compares behaviors across four categories: healthy, unhealthy, manipulative, and abusive. Questions include: taking responsibility, handling conflict, respecting emotional reality, and supporting independence.

Red Flags Detector

Identify toxic behaviors that erode trust and emotional safety.

The Perpetuation of Emotional Abuse

Why some choose growth while others continue cycles of harm for power.

This tool traces how emotional abuse is repeated and reinforced over time. It shows the point where people make a choice—either to grow and break harmful cycles, or to continue abuse for power and control.

nfographic titled “The Perpetuation of Emotional Abuse.” Explains how abuse is repeated and reinforced. Shows a flow from discomfort and control to long-term cycles, ending in a choice: break the cycle through growth or continue abuse for power.

The Cycle That Fuels Covert Abuse

How discomfort turns into projection, control, distortion, and repeated harm.

This circular model shows how discomfort leads to projection, control, distortion, and repeated revenge. It explains why covert abusers deny harm while continuing the same behaviors, and how to break the cycle by recognizing it.

Infographic titled “The Mental Cycle That Fuels Covert Abuse.” Shows a circular pattern: discomfort → projection → control → distortion → self-justified revenge → reinforcement. Explains how abusers avoid feelings by repeating harmful cycles.

6. How Manipulators Gain Power

Seven tactics abusers use to control, silence, and reinforce their influence.

This map breaks down seven common tactics abusers use to gain influence—creating a controlled image, exploiting followers, twisting connection, and reinforcing secrecy. It makes visible how manipulation thrives, so you can recognize and step outside of it.

Infographic titled “How Manipulators Gain Power Over Others.” Explains seven tactics abusers use: creating an image, gaining followers, using manipulation, applying social pressure, exploiting trust, silencing targets, and reinforcing control.

Internal Links

TEG-Blue™ is a place for people who care-about dignity, about repair, about building something better. It’s a map, an invitation, and a growing toolbox, as an evolving commons—supporting emotional clarity, systemic healing, and collective wisdom. Here, healing doesn’t require perfection—just honesty, responsibility, and support.

Work In Progress…

The Role Mask Gradient Scale The Green Flags Quiz The Red Flags Quiz Unmasking Manipulation The Emotional Maturity Quiz