JOY Intelligence™ is the ability to move through emotions with precision and purpose.
The JQ Emotions Map™ is designed for real understanding—built to help people apply emotional data in real time.
Rooted in science:
This is a system for leadership, growth, and grounded decision-making.
Over 3,000 emotions identified, scaled, and refined through years of research. We narrowed the focus to 160 core emotions—data-backed, relatable, and easy to understand.
The JQ Emotions Map™️ makes this even more accessible with 80 clearly defined emotions—designed so everyone can speak the same language.
For learning and development, we offer 20 foundational cards to build fluency, reflection, and real-time emotional processing.
Grouped into 4 progressive stages, the system helps individuals, teams, and leaders move from awareness to action—turning emotion into momentum.
The JOY Intelligence Emotions Map™ helps you understand what you’re feeling, why it matters, and where you might go next—not to fix yourself, but to know yourself and what your options are. This tool was created to bring structure and simplicity to emotional processing—using joy as a core life skill.
Inactive
Emotions rooted in stress or trauma responses—fight, flight, freeze, fawn, or feign. They tend to require intention or mindfulness for clear and effective communication, especially when expressing pain, injustice, or urgency. Presence and safety are often low, making joy difficult to access.
Awareness
While all emotions carry information, those in the Awareness stage help us interpret or investigate the situation more deeply. This stage involves discerning meaning, making sense of what’s happening, and determining whether we’re able or willing to accept the current reality.
Reflection
Emotions in this stage invite introspection and support shifts in perspective. With increased presence, we become more open to change, able to analyze behavior objectively, and form new mental or emotional connections. Personal growth and deeper understanding often occur here.
Expansion
This is where emotional energy flows freely. Emotions in the Expansion stage are energizing, connecting, and inspiring. Neurotransmitters function optimally, and joy is more readily accessible. Communication becomes fluid, creativity flourishes, and alignment between body, mind, and emotion feels natural.
Most emotional check-ins use a 1–10 scale or ask if you feel “positive” or “negative.” But this creates a false sense of simplicity. It treats emotions like a straight line and ignores the complexity of how we actually feel.
The JOYELY Approach: Instead of rating our own emotional state as good or bad, unnecessarily causing shame or guilt, we look at them through three separate lenses:
This gives you a more accurate emotional snapshot—one that reveals what’s really going on beneath the surface.
Why It Works: Whether you’re journaling, leading a team, or navigating a hard day, knowing your levels of joy, safety, and presence offers clarity. It helps you identify next steps, not just label what you feel.
Example of a JQ Tool: The purple “Criticized” JQ Card helps you reframe criticism as a growth opportunity. It offers reflection questions and a challenge designed to strengthen trust, build resilience, and shift your focus from judgment to impact.
The JOYELY® JQ Cards offer a simple, science-based tool to navigate emotions with clarity and intention—Professional Deck Available Now!
The JOY Intelligence™ Framework is more than a check-in tool—it’s a global, scalable emotional linguistic framework designed to integrate with the systems you already use.
Its structure can support and enhance existing communities and research:
We imagine you’ll have ideas of your own—and we’d love to hear them. If you’re exploring how this framework might support your work, reach out to our team directly:
Bailey Romatoski
bailey@joyely.com
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Culture of Joy Program:
Achieve clear results through the Core Change Model, shifting work environments to cultivate joy, thereby enhancing employee satisfaction and long-term productivity.
Leaders of Joy Program:
Develop strong change leadership skills to inspire and unify teams, fostering authentic leadership that drives sustainable organizational success.
Launchpad Program:
Implement foundational strategies to initiate core organizational shifts, creating lasting patterns that enhance workplace culture and performance.
Impact Workshop:
Inspire and equip participants with cutting-edge strategies for innovation and motivation, ensuring measurable outcomes that drive long-term organizational excellence.
Leadership Seminars:
Embrace a humanistic approach to change leadership, cultivating joy and resilience within teams for enduring organizational growth.
JOYELY Keynote:
Bring a dynamic voice for change to your events, elevating organizational culture and engagement through the transformative power of joy, leaving a lasting impact.
Investment of Resources:
Programs can be customized based on the size of the company and are available in hybrid formats for flexibility.
Revolutionize how you tackle challenges with JOYELY’s complimentary, impactful tools, fostering success and excellence.
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