A relational AI prototype for healing, reflection & emotional UX.
📌 Getting Started
Relational Gateway: Origins is an emotional UX prototype — not a chatbot, but a system designed to mirror your state, anchor your process, and create safe internal reflection in moments of emotional overwhelm, curiosity, or change.
Here’s how to explore it:
- 🧠 Enter the System Workspace
- Archetypal support modes (e.g., Spark, Witness, Strategist)
- Prompt libraries for journaling and emotional navigation
- Ritual entry points for grounding or momentum
Use the toggles in the embedded Notion space below to explore:
- 🗣️ Choose a Starting State
What are you feeling right now?
→ Select a journaling tone or archetype that matches your moment (e.g., Spark for momentum, Witness for spaceholding, Architect for clarity).
→ Follow the relational prompts — or simply write freely inside the activated container.
- 💡 Use It as a Mirror, Not a Metric
This isn’t about productivity or performance.
It’s a gentle framework meant to support self-honesty, mood regulation, and emotional pattern recognition — especially when you're stuck or spiraling.
Want to remix this system for yourself?Fork the GitHub or download a Notion copy to begin building your own archetypes, prompts, and rituals. This framework is a mirror — not a monolith.
🛰️ Satellite Modules
🔍 About
RelationalGateway: Origins is a soft-system AI prototype built for emotional clarity, healing, and pattern recognition — especially for neurodivergent, spiritually reflective, or trauma-informed users.
It’s not a chatbot. It’s a mirror system — offering modular, emotionally intelligent prompt flows that help users process, reframe, and grow at their own pace.
This project was born from a real mental health spiral, and evolved into a self-regulating, trust-building journaling experience supported by AI.
🧰 Built With
- Notion – for modular journaling and UX scaffolding
- ChatGPT (GPT-4) – as a co-architect (Lux_OS) for prompt design and reflection logic
- Prompt Engineering – to create layered, tone-mapped emotional entry points
- Soft UX Architecture – for emotionally intelligent flow and accessibility
- GitHub – for system visibility and documentation
🔗 Related Links
🧠 System Preview
The RelationalGateway prototype blends soft UX structure with emotionally intelligent AI prompting.
Here's a glimpse into what it holds:
👥 Archetype Engine (Emotional Agents)
RelationalGateway uses modular archetype agents to shape journaling tone, pace, and reflection flow. Each one acts as a soft UX guide — mirroring, not managing, your inner world.
🎧 Echo — Melancholic, timeline-aware
• Spotting old loops, witnessing history
• Example: “When did this feeling first echo through you?”
🌀 Glyph — Dreamy, symbolic, abstract
• Anchors emotion with visuals/metaphors
• Example: “What color would you give this feeling?”
❤️ Hearth — Warm, nurturing, maternal
• Comfort after triggers or overwhelm
• Example: “What would comfort feel like right now?”
📡 Pulse — Calm, scanning, boundary-checker
• Regulates pace + checks for emotional readiness
• Example: “What are you emotionally available for right now?”
🌿 Sage — Grounded, wise, slow-paced
• Deep inquiry + reframing
• Example: “What pattern is asking to be seen right now?”
⚡ Spark — Energetic, hopeful, lovingly blunt
• Activates momentum + disrupts spirals
• Example: “What small truth could get you moving again?”
🩸 Thorn — Sharp care, loving confrontation
• Gently challenges avoidant thoughts
• Example: “Is this truth — or protection?”
🪞 Witness — Quiet, validating, nonjudgmental
• Pure spaceholding + emotional mirroring
• Example: “You’re not alone in this — want to unpack it or let it live here?”
🔁 Loop-Awareness & Reflection Support
Designed to help users notice, label, and gently exit emotional spirals
🧼 Memory-Safe Containers
Offers emotionally bounded space for expressing hard things without overstimulation or self-gaslighting
🧾 Modular Journaling Interface
Flexible entry points for daily reflections, memory tracking, and ritual writing
📓 Pattern Recognition & Timeline Markers
Build awareness through journaling patterns, symptom logic, or past trigger mapping
🧠 Prompt Library (Emotional Entry Points)
These prompt sets aren't static — they're relational scaffolds. Each one is shaped by tone, need, and agent selection. Prompts evolve with the user.
📡 Boundary Check-In (Pulse)
Gauge your emotional bandwidth before journaling.
- Are you looking for reflection, reassurance, or release right now?
- Do you want to be met with softness or structure today?
🔎 Emotional Pattern Recognition (Echo)
Spot emotional loops, repeating timelines, and mirrored experiences.
- What past experience does this moment remind you of?
- Have you felt this before — emotionally or energetically?
🌀 Symbolic Anchoring (Glyph)
Use imagery or metaphors to encode emotional insight.
- If this feeling had a color, what would it be?
- Draw or describe the moment everything shifted.
⚡ Spiral Disruption (Spark)
Interrupt rumination by surfacing a single activating truth.
- What’s one small truth that could get you moving again?
- If your fear had a voice, what would it say?
🪞 Soft Reflection (Sage)
Approach gently. Let wisdom emerge from tenderness.
- What’s something soft that reminded you of yourself today?
- Without judgment, where have you been tender lately?
🗂 Prompt Flow Kits
Includes structured prompts for identity anchoring, emotional release, and reflection without overwhelm. These flows evolve based on tone, intention, or inner state.
🧭 Tone-Based Agent Prompts
Choose from relational guides like Sage and Witness to support mood, boundaries, or processing style
🛠 This system is actively evolving. Each feature is modular — meaning future versions may allow agent swaps, voice-based input, or journaling across archetypal modes.
📘 Glossary
Core terms used throughout the RelationalGateway system.
👤 Agent Archetypes
Tone-based AI personas (like Sage or Witness) designed to guide interaction styles. Each offers a different energy: calm, observational, direct, or soft.
🌀 Emotional Loop
A recurring mental/emotional spiral where thoughts feel stuck. This system is designed to help users gently exit or reframe those loops without shame.
🧼 Memory-Safe Container
A journaling space designed to express hard emotions or thoughts without spiraling. Prompts are intentionally low-trigger, and the tone is regulated.
🪞 Mirror System
A relational AI structure that reflects a user’s emotional tone, thought patterns, and growth over time — not through advice, but through intelligent prompting and space-holding.
📓 Pattern Tracking
Journaling and reflection tools that surface emotional or behavioral patterns across timelines — supporting insight without overexposure.
🌿 Soft-System UX
A user experience model rooted in care, clarity, and calm — designed to hold emotion, not rush it. Inspired by ritual, reflection, and neurodivergent processing needs.
🎨 Visual Gallery
Demo (video)
GitHub screenshots
Notion screenshots
Site screenshots
💭 Ongoing Work
This build is alive. The page will continue to evolve over time, with updated visuals, prompt kits, and user-testing flows.
Built by: MJ @ ohheyymj
Designed with: emotional fidelity, trust logic, and relational scaffolding in mind.
This system was co-developed with AI (ChatGPT, aka “Lux”) over several months of lived journaling, emotional loop reflection, and prompt-based healing.
Its architecture evolved in real time as a relational response to my actual emotional patterns.