The Emotion Scientist’s Toolkit

Turn anonymous check-ins into insights for events, experiences, groups, and services

What if you could uncover the unspoken vibes around your next family debate on summer plans, capture the hidden emotional currents in your team’s big strategy meeting, or chart how customers truly feel about your products and services? Take a step into the emotion science lab with our web-based check-in! This easy-to-use tool uncovers real-time emotional insights for any group or occasion.

Check-ins display in chronological order on the Feed tab.

How It Works

Our web-based check-in tool uses no cookies or tracking and scales effortlessly from a family poll to a thousand-person webinar. Ready to launch your first experiment? Just follow these five simple steps:

• Request Access: Email support@howwefeel.org to request access to the web-based tool. (Please keep in mind that it is in the early stages of development.)

• Define Your Experiment: Give your experiment a name and craft the question you want participants to answer.

• Generate Link: Create a unique, shareable link to distribute via email, message, or any medium.

• Check-in: Participants click the link, select how they feel, and optionally respond to your custom question, all anonymously.

• View Results: Anyone with the link sees live, aggregated emotional data, so you can understand group sentiment in real time.

Check-ins light up the Mood Meter on the Visualize tab.

Collaboration Spotlight

Coaching Season is a workplace wellness company helping people and organizations thrive through emotionally intelligent leadership, inclusive cultures, and holistic coaching. In collaboration with How We Feel, Coaching Season has integrated emotional check-ins into the rhythm of how they teach, coach, and lead.

• Masterclasses: Participants begin using the app two weeks prior and check-in before and after each class to support emotional reflection and mindfulness. These touchpoints help deepen learning, boost presence, and strengthen self-awareness around topics like resilience and emotional mastery.

• Coaching Programs: Coaches begin sessions with check-ins to surface patterns, support emotional clarity, and guide meaningful reflection. Clients gain insight into their growth over time across personal, career, and leadership goals.

• Internal Culture: Check-ins during meetings and All Hands normalize emotional reflection, reduce stress, and promote psychological safety. The Culture Committee shares tools inspired by the app—like breathwork and reframing—to foster well-being and deepen team connection.

“Emotional insight isn’t just a leadership skill—it’s a life skill. Integrating How We Feel helps people pause, reflect, and lead with greater clarity and care. That’s how we transform workplaces—from the inside out.” — Laura Limasa, President of Coaching Season

A Mini-Guide for Inspiration

Following Coaching Season’s example of using emotional check-ins to deepen engagement, use our web-based tool to unlock insights in moments like these:

• Art installations: An artist gauges real-time emotional reactions (“inspired,” “curious,” “moved”) to new works and uses that feedback to inform exhibit curation, programming, and future creations.

• Service feedback: A consultant understands how clients felt about each phase of their experience, uncovering blind spots in service design.

• Team ice-breaker: At a company retreat, colleagues anonymously share feelings as they arrive, choosing from “excited,” “nervous,” or “optimistic,” sparking open dialogue and empathy from minute one.

Try It Today

We’d love your feedback!

Step into the lab! Request access to the web-based check-in, generate your link, and start capturing anonymous, real-time emotional data. Try it at your next gathering and discover what the data reveals about your audience’s experience.