An open invitation to co-publish, co-own, and co-create the next phase of TEG-Blue™
Building Systemic Clarity: A Call to Collaborators
TEG-Blue™ is a living system for mapping emotional experience — grounded in survival, refined by design, and ready for science.
If you care about emotional safety, accountability, and systemic healing, this is your invitation to join the research circle.
We’re now seeking researchers, educators, and practitioners who want to co-publish and co-own studies that test, compare, and expand the frameworks behind TEG-Blue.
Each collaboration will be credited transparently and co-authored by design.
1. What We’re Building
TEG-Blue connects trauma science, neuroscience, psychology, sociology, and systems thinking into one visual architecture.
It maps how emotions move — from survival to belonging — and how these shifts shape behavior, bias, power, and repair.
This is a structured ecosystem of hypotheses, designed to be tested, challenged, and expanded through evidence.
Together, the 11 frameworks already contain over 40 potential research lines — each exploring how emotional literacy can be measured, visualized, and operationalized for healing, education, and ethical technology.
2. What Makes This Work Distinct
- Gradient-based logic: Emotions are mapped as continuous data, not categories — revealing nuance, context, and intent.
- Lived experience meets design: Survivor insight translated into structured systems thinking and visual clarity.
- Built for stress: All tools are trauma-informed, neurodivergent-aware, and usable under pressure — not just reflection.
- Expands, not replaces: The work complements existing models, bridging fields rather than competing with them.
3. Scientific Rigor & Open Collaboration
- A Hypothesis to be Challenged: TEG-Blue welcomes rigorous, trauma-informed research and peer review.
- Empirical Core Questions:
- Do gradient-based visuals improve emotional understanding compared to diagnostic or categorical models?
- Can design-based, trauma-informed tools create safer, more effective interventions?
- How do survivor-led frameworks align with existing academic models across populations?
- Can emotional logic and safety be operationalized for AI alignment and systemic repair?
- Open Data, Open Attribution: We follow an open-science ethos — transparent data, replicable methods, and Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 principles — while maintaining clear authorship and intellectual integrity.
4. Collaboration in Action
Each researcher or team will be invited to:
- Select a framework or gradient that aligns with their expertise.
- Co-design and co-author one or more studies or comparative papers.
- Pilot tools in educational, therapeutic, or organizational contexts.
- Help define the metrics of emotional understanding for future integration with AI ethics and digital mental health.
What success looks like:
We build the evidence base for a new kind of emotional literacy — one that can heal, prevent harm, and inform the technologies shaping our future.
What failure looks like:
We learn, publish, and move the field forward by showing what doesn’t work — empirically, transparently, and without ego.
5. Scope of Research Potential
TEG-Blue was designed as an open system, not a single hypothesis.
Each of its frameworks contains multiple testable questions connecting psychology, neuroscience, education, and social behavior.
Together, they outline more than 40 distinct lines of research — from validation studies and cross-disciplinary comparisons to conceptual integrations across models.
This scale isn’t ambition — it’s architecture.
Every framework, gradient, and relational map is operationalizable and built for empirical exploration.
If developed collaboratively, TEG-Blue could generate a decade of interdisciplinary studies, forming a shared foundation for emotional literacy, trauma-informed design, and ethical AI.
6. Accountability in Research
This work can only stay safe if it’s built by people who take both love and responsibility seriously — who understand that kindness without accountability becomes avoidance, and accountability without kindness becomes control.
We all make mistakes. What matters is how we meet them — with honesty, humility, and care.
7. Join the Research Circle
If you see yourself in this work, reach out.
We’re assembling a global research circle of psychologists, neuroscientists, educators, social scientists, designers, and AI thinkers who want to help shape the next chapter.
📩 Contact: Anna Paretas — [email protected]
This system was born in survival — but built for rigorous, world-class collaboration. If you recognize the gaps this work addresses, let’s bridge them together.
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