“Why did that affect me so deeply?”
A comment stays with you. You replay it, withdraw, or react before you understand what you felt.
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THE LIFE MAP EXPERIENCE™
Emotional
™
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE DEVELOPMENT
When your emotions
start choosing
your direction.
Have you ever made a decision in anger, stayed silent to keep the peace, or let fear decide what you would try? Explore what is underneath those responses and practice choosing your next step with intention.
AWARENESS · CLARITY · INTENTION · GROWTH
WHAT ARE YOUR EMOTIONS CARRYING?
Sometimes the moment is new.
The feeling is familiar.
Today’s response may carry yesterday’s experiences. Grief, trauma, disappointment, and rejection can be part of what you bring into a conversation, a relationship, or a decision.
Pause. Notice what you feel. Give yourself room to understand it.
“I said yes, but I meant no.”
You keep the peace and put your needs aside. Later, you feel exhausted or unheard.
“I want to move forward, but I keep holding back.”
A new opportunity brings up an old disappointment. You hesitate or choose what feels familiar.
UNDERSTAND THE STORY. PRACTICE THE RESPONSE.
Discover what shaped your emotional landscape.
Develop how you navigate it.
THE FOUNDATION
The Life Map
Experience™
REFLECTION & DISCOVERY
The Life Map Experience guides you through intentional reflection to understand how your moments, experiences, emotions, healing, and lessons have shaped your emotional landscape.
The Five Coordinates Framework
- 01
Moments
The landmarks that shaped your story.
- 02
Emotions
The feelings that rise within you.
- 03
Healing
The release and renewal that clears the way.
- 04
Lessons
The wisdom that shapes who you are becoming.
- 05
Roadmap
The intentional path you choose to move your life forward.
THE APPLICATION
Emotional
Navigation™
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE DEVELOPMENT
Emotional Navigation helps you increase your emotional intelligence by strengthening how you recognize, understand, manage, and respond to emotions, so you can navigate life more effectively.
The Emotional Navigation Framework
Self-Awareness
Recognize emotions, patterns, and triggers.
Self-Management
Regulate reactions and choose an intentional response.
Social Awareness
Read emotional cues and understand another person’s perspective.
Relationship Management
Use emotional insight to communicate, influence, and navigate conflict.
EMOTIONS ARE CONTEXTUAL
One moment.
Different meanings.
Your environment, experiences, and expectations shape what a situation means to you.
The Life Map Experience helps you explore that context. Emotional Navigation helps you practice what happens next.
Honor what you feel.
Be intentional about where it leads.
A CHANGE OF PLANS
Relief for one.
Uncertainty for another.
A welcome break may feel very different to someone who has experienced instability.
FEEDBACK FROM SOMEONE
Useful direction for one.
Past criticism for another.
The words may be the same. The experience each person brings can be different.
What happened?
What did it mean to you?
How do you want to respond?
YOUR COMPLIMENTARY STARTING POINT
What patterns
are shaping
your responses?
Begin with a quiet moment of reflection. Consider how you respond when you feel challenged, disappointed, overwhelmed, or misunderstood. This assessment offers a starting point for noticing your patterns and deciding what you want to develop.
- Explore self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management
- Recognize strengths and identify a meaningful development priority
- Choose an intentional response for your next chapter
Enter your first name and email on the Wix form. A six-page fillable reflection tool with 20 statements and simple section-by-section scoring. This is a coaching self-reflection tool, not a validated EQ test.
YOUR PARTICIPANT WORKBOOK
The Life Map
Experience Workbook
A place to put words to what you have been carrying. Reflect on defining moments, name your emotions, and consider the lessons and direction you want to take forward. Return to your reflections as you practice what you learn in the session.
Moments · Emotions · Healing · Lessons · Roadmap
YOUR COMPANION RESOURCES
Bonus
Alternate Route
Resources
Additional tools, exercises, and resources to help you recognize when a different response, decision, or direction is needed in your personal and professional life.
REFLECTRECONSIDERCHOOSE YOUR DIRECTION
MEET YOUR FACILITATOR & COACH
About
Dr. Kimberly Ellison
Certified EQ Strategist,
EQ Facilitator and Coach
Leadership Development Strategist · Executive Coach · Author
Dr. Kimberly Ellison helps people understand their experiences, recognize their patterns, and strengthen the capabilities they need to move forward with intention.
As founder of Dr. Kimberly Ellison Global, LLC and Sparkle Publishing Company, she brings more than 23 years of experience in learning, leadership development, and organizational development. Her work combines coaching, assessments, curriculum design, and facilitation to connect personal insight with practical action.
Through The Life Map Experience™ and Emotional Navigation™, she invites participants to reflect on what has shaped their emotional landscape and develop how they navigate decisions, relationships, and life’s next chapter.
Additional certifications & assessment credentials
MBTI · DISC + Values · Strong Interest Inventory · Kolbe · Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) · Voices 360 · Korn Ferry Leadership Architect
FOR ORGANIZATIONS & COMPANIES
Emotional Intelligence
Training
Emotions enter the workplace with us. A difficult conversation, a change in expectations, or feedback from a leader can bring up frustration, defensiveness, or uncertainty. Give your people space to understand those moments and practice responding with greater awareness.
- Leadership Development
- Team Effectiveness
- Emotional Intelligence
- Change & Transition
Through reflection, discussion, and practical exercises, Emotional Navigation training focuses on the real conversations, decisions, and relationships your people need to navigate.
COMING SOON!
2027 Relationship Series
EQ Before I DO™
Because Healthy Love Starts Before “I Do.”
Dating + Engaged Couples
Discover. Understand. Communicate. Prepare.
Designed to help couples develop the emotional intelligence needed to understand themselves and one another, communicate effectively, navigate emotions and conflict, serve each other well, and intentionally create a healthy relationship environment where love can thrive.
EQ Ever After™
Because “I Do” Was Only the Beginning.
Married Couples
Discover. Understand. Communicate. Grow.
Designed to help married couples strengthen the emotional intelligence within their marriage by learning to discover, identify, understand, and navigate emotions so they can communicate more effectively, deepen connection, grow together, and walk in greater alignment and agreement.