Use the “Emotional Check In / Check Out” worksheets to help the student and instructor identify possible “Home Emotions.” If someone’s home emotion is around happy they may very rarely get angry and never reach enraged. If someone’s home emotion is around anger, they may become enraged with little warning since on the color wheel, they are already close to that feeling. Knowing a home emotion can help you interpret how you or someone else will respond to things that occur. We often return to our home emotion and it can act like a circle of feelings where we are most comfortable. When you are in a quiet place alone, do you often find yourself feeling one particular emotion like happy or anxious for no apparent reason? This may be your home emotion.
Your home emotion is the way you often feel when alone with no input from anyone else.
