68+ ‘Emotional intelligence’ Writing Prompts
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Empathy Exercise
Choose a person you struggle to understand or get along with, and write a narrative from their perspective.
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Mapping My Emotional Landscape
Examine a recent emotional experience and dissect it to understand your reactions and feelings.
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The Power of Words
Describe a time when someone’s words had a profound impact on you, positive or negative.
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Friendship Evolutions
Recall a friendship that has significantly evolved or changed over the past year.
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Understanding Emotions
Write about a time when you felt really happy or sad, capturing in words the emotions you experienced.
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The Valentine’s Day Fight
Narrate a fictional Valentine’s Day argument with your partner and explore how you would resolve it.
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The Five Languages of Love
Describe how you would express love in each of “The Five Love Languages”.
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Emotional Archiving
Write about a moment when you felt an emotion particularly strongly, whether it be happiness, anger, sadness, or any other…
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Facing Fears
Write about a time you were truly frightened, describe the emotions you felt and how you dealt with that fear.
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Empathy Surge
Write about a superhero who doesn’t possess super strength or fast speed, but rather an intense level of empathy.
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Empathy Exercise
Write a story from the point of view of someone who is feeling an emotion you don’t understand.
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The Changing Seasons of Emotions
Describe your emotions as changing seasons. What would each season signify?
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The Feelings Behind My Tears
Write about a time when you cried, detailing the emotions that caused the tears.
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Revising Relationships
Explore how relationships or friendships in your life might have changed if certain arguments or miscommunications had been revised.
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Emotional Identification
Identify one personal experience when you felt a powerful emotion, dig into the reasons behind that emotion, and describe how…
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Emotional Equilibrium
Reflect on the range and intensity of emotions you experienced over the holidays and draft a plan to regain emotional…
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Rediscovering Old Wounds
Think of a time you were hurt by something someone said or did. How has it affected you, and how…
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Palette of Emotions
Describe five emotions you’ve come to better understand this year through personal experiences, and how they have contributed to your…
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In My Shoes
Write an imaginary interview where a friend or a family member is to walk in your shoes for a day.
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Survival of the Strongest
Write about life five years into the zombie apocalypse, where physical strength matters less and mental acuity reigns supreme.
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The Friendliest Island Ghost
Craft a tale about meeting and befriending a ghost inhabiting the island.
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Echoes from the Playground
Write about a conflict you had in your childhood, and how you would handle it now.
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Strange Phenomenon
Imagine a strange event occurring in your school—something that is almost too weird to believe—what would it be and how…
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Venting Anger
Express a moment where you felt the most angry and detail the reasons behind the anger.
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Unpacking Emotions
Select an emotion and write a sentence describing that feeling to someone who doesn’t understand it.
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Emotional Rollercoaster of March
Craft a narrative that mirrors the emotional ups and downs experienced during March Madness.
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Seats of Emotion
Describe a scene where a character experiences a strong, unexpected rush of emotion.
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Empathy As Power
Recall an instance where your empathy played a vital role in understanding or helping another person.
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Emotional Inventory
Write about the emotions you’ve experienced in the past week and how each made you feel.
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Living With Emotions
Write a personal narrative about a time you felt a strong emotion- it could be joy, anger, sadness, fear, surprise-…
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Understanding Emotions
Describe a time when you or someone you know was really happy, what made them feel that way, and how…
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The Invisible Connection
Describe an instance when you could tell what your child/parent was feeling without them saying anything.
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Utopia of the Careless
Develop a dystopian society where human emotions are deemed as inefficient and thus suppressed.
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Exploration of Past Fears
Identify your deepest childhood fear and explore how it has transformed in your adult life.
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Unveiling the Mask
Write a persuasive essay about the necessity (or not) of concealing true feelings to maintain social harmony.
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Repurposing Negative Feedback
Write about a piece of criticism that affected you, and discuss how you can use this feedback constructively.
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Unconventional Bonding Techniques
Write about a Pokemon Trainer who taps into atypical ways to build rapport including empathy and emotional intelligence.
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Emotional Intelligence in Anime
Reflect on how anime explores complex emotions and how this has impacted broader television narratives.
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Social Butterfly’s Impact
Describe an incident where your social skills had a positive impact on someone.
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Family Disagreements and Growth
Write about a disagreement within your family and what you learned from it.
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Guilt Dissection
Write about a time when you felt guilty, identifying what caused this guilt and how you addressed it.
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Expressive Vocabulary
Pen down a list of all the feelings or emotions you’ve felt during the past week. Pick three and elaborate…
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Empathy Exploration
Choose a person in your life and try to empathize with their current situation or struggles. Write from their perspective.
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Love Languages
Write about your personal love languages and how you can use them to show love to yourself.
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Tete-a-Tete with Emotions
Pick one emotion you’ve experienced recently and explore it in detail. What triggered it? How did you react?
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Emotional Examination
Describe an emotion you’ve recently experienced and delve into why you believe it surfaced.
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Relating to Your Emotions
Write about a recent emotion you’ve felt strongly post-recovery, and describe it as if it were a person.
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The Journey of Emotions
Describe the most intense emotions you’ve ever experienced and elaborate on how they have shaped you.
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Appreciating Your Influences
Reflect upon the people who have positively influenced your life and how they have shaped you.
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Pursuit of Passion
Describe an instance where you pursued something you were passionate about and what you learned from that experience.
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Emotional Identification Exercise
Select three emotions you have felt intensely in the past week and write about the situations that elicited these feelings.
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Exploring Emotions
Write down one journal prompt that caused a strong emotional response and delve deeper on why.
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Personal Growth through Anxiety
Write about a time when anxiety actually led to personal development.
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Crosstalk Collision
Craft a difficult conversation between your character and someone they have a conflict with.
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Unrequited Love
Describe a situation when you were deeply in love with someone who didn’t reciprocate.
