Spirituality and Emotional Intelligence

Section 2

Emotions—Red, Yellow, and Blue

My father’s personal physician, Dr. Ron Singler, and his colleague, Dr. Gregory May, came up with a unique way of thinking about the range of emotion. Dad began applying this in experiential learning workshops both in academic and industrial settings. Many people in those workshops have found Singler and May’s model helpful as they seek clarity about the full range of emotions and attempt to reclaim emotions they have less access to.

Figure S2.1Red, yellow, and blue.

Figure S2.1 (below) is by no means an exhaustive list of feeling words. In a live workshop we have participants build the list with words ...