Adults

For adults, as for kids, the Grump Meter offers a tool for awareness of feelings, communication, and navigating behavior. It gives you a common language to express feelings. Use it to prevent emotional escalations and create safety around you.

Beginning in childhood, people often learn fear of feelings—we push them down, ignore them, suppress them. But our brains and bodies react to feelings whether we deal with them or not, and we can learn to face them more manageably, with courage and open hearts and minds.

You can use the Grump Meter to take yourself through a step-by-step process:
·       practicing mindful awareness—identifying the color you’re on
·      noticing your body cues-- where your body houses your feelings, how it communicate with you
·       identifying triggers—what hooks you?
·       naming your feelings—finding words to help you and others understand  
·       choosing behaviors that have dignity and integrity for you.

In coaching sessions, workshops, and professional development settings, we work with the process above, step by step. Call it emotional regulation, intelligence, or agility—leaders in families and workplaces are more effective when they have this process available to them. The Grump Meter won’t solve problems, but it will help you open your own doors to solving them.

You can use the Grump Meter with anyone, and anywhere you want to reduce stress, strengthen communication, prevent tantrums and escalations, resolve conflict, discover new ways to explore moods and mood changes.

The Grump Meter is a tool for self-regulation. It takes practice. The tools to adjust your emotional temperature are within you. You have your mind, breath, vision and hearing, touch, language—all these can help begin to refocus and reduce your triggers, and find new conversations and behaviors that reconnect you to yourself and others.