Building Systemic Clarity: An Open Call to Collaborators
TEG-Blue™ is a living system for mapping emotional experience, grounded equally in survival, design, and science. Whether you’re a researcher, educator, technologist, practitioner, or systems-builder: if you care about emotional safety, accountability, and systemic healing, this is your invitation.
1. How TEG-Blue™ Was Built
Connect-the-Dots Logic, Born in Survival
- Synthesis, not invention: TEG-Blue connects existing trauma, neuroscience, and systems frameworks, filling critical gaps—especially around miswiring, emotional nuance, and survivor wisdom.
- Made in lived reality, refined by design: Developed by Anna Paretas amid personal collapse, honed over 25+ years of visual and conceptual design, the system transforms overwhelm into clear, actionable maps.
- Not a destination, but a point of departure: TEG-Blue is intentionally iterative and collaborative, designed to evolve as it is tested and applied.
2. Framework Logic & Structure
A Visual, Gradient-Based System for Real-World Emotional Mapping
- 11 Core Frameworks: Encompassing nervous system gradients, ego/persona, social roles, harm progression, capital filters, bias, neurodivergence, generational healing, paradox resolution, and more—mapping emotion from the inside out, all the way to social systems.
- Spectrum, not labels: Real-time, color-coded gradients reveal the context and intent behind emotional responses—moving beyond binaries and diagnosis.
- Emotions as Data: TEG-Blue treats emotional signals as structured readable, testable, and vital for understanding safety, connection, and accountability.
- Operationalizing Emotional Technology: This isn’t just self-help—it’s an open, scalable platform for emotional measurement, intervention, and repair, compatible with both human and AI systems.
3. What Makes This Work Distinct
- Designed for Stress: All tools are trauma-informed, neurodivergent-aware, and usable under real-world pressure—not only in reflective settings.
- Bridges Lived Experience and Research: Survivor insight is paired with integrative science. The system addresses both unconscious trauma responses and intentional manipulation—offering detection, repair, and prevention.
- Expands, not replaces: TEG-Blue is complementary to existing research and therapeutic approaches. It offers what others often miss: dynamic gradients, visual language, context-driven assessment, and bias-aware design.
4. Scientific Rigor & Empirical Invitation
Ready for Testing, Not Just Endorsement
- A Hypothesis to be Challenged: The system welcomes rigorous, trauma-informed research. It’s built as a hypothesis open to falsification—not a dogmatic answer in search of validation.
- Empirical Core Questions:
- Can gradient-based, visual tools improve emotional understanding over categorical or diagnostic models?
- Do trauma-informed design principles create safer, more effective interventions for healing, education, and AI?
- How do survivor-led frameworks compare with academic models across diverse populations?
- Can emotional logic and safety be operationalized for AI alignment and systemic repair?
- Willingness to Be Wrong: If TEG-Blue falters outside its origin story, that’s data—not failure.
5. Collaboration in Action: How We Learn
- Start Small, Grow Responsively: Pilot tools with small groups; compare with established benchmarks. Articulate what works and what doesn’t before scaling.
- Iterate With Openness: Adjust, refine, or even abandon elements based on findings—then publish both successes and limitations.
- Stay Transparent: This work is open-access, fully documented, and licensed for non-commercial, research, or educational impact (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Attribution required, perfection not.
6. Join the Work—All Are Welcome
Researchers, educators, designers, technologists, therapists, policymakers, and practitioners:
If you’re passionate about emotional clarity, accountability, trauma-informed systems, or AI alignment, your expertise is needed here.
- Provide methodological rigor, critical review, or peer validation.
- Pilot TEG-Blue in classrooms, organizations, teams, or digital products.
- Challenge assumptions, refine the logic, or help interpret what works and why.
- Bring your lived experience to bear as a co-creator—not just a subject.
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.
7. Next Steps: Connect and Collaborate
- Learn more, download the following files:
- For research inquiries, pilot requests, or collaboration ideas, contact: Anna Paretas Email: [email protected]
This system began in survival, but it’s built for rigorous, world-class collaboration.If you see the gaps this work aims to address—let’s build this together.
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