Feeling Wheels for Workplace Teams, SEL, Conflict Reflection, and Restorative Justice

Feeling Wheels are visual tools that help people explore the emotions that show up during conflict, team dynamics, restorative conversations, and everyday challenges. By starting with a base feeling and moving toward more specific emotions, youth and adults can build emotional awareness, identify needs, and communicate with more clarity.

CircleUp® uses Feeling Wheels for workplace check-ins, team building, SEL activities, counseling, restorative justice circles, and conflict reflection. They help people slow down, process what happened, and find language for what they are experiencing before jumping into solutions.

CircleUp Feeling Wheel Definitions Guide PDF cover — emotion definitions for the inner, middle, and outer circle

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Free Feeling Wheel Definitions Guide — PDF Download

This free companion guide defines every emotion word on the CircleUp® Feeling Wheel, organized by the inner circle (core feelings), middle circle, and outer circle (more specific emotions). Each definition is written in simple, easy-to-understand language for working with youth and adults in therapy, classroom, counseling, and restorative justice or conflict-resolution settings.

Download and print it to accompany your Feeling Wheel, or view it on any digital device — a practical, printable supplement that helps people build emotional vocabulary, name what they feel, and communicate with more clarity.

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