Teachers use Blob Trees to check the "emotional register" of a classroom. In the morning, a student circles a crying Blob hanging upside down. The teacher knows to check in on that student before math class begins. It is a silent, non-disruptive way to do a mental health check.
The genius of Wilson’s lies in its universality. Because the figures are genderless, race-neutral, and ageless, they strip away the biases that often complicate communication. They are purely "beings," making the tool applicable to a CEO in a boardroom, a child in a nursery, or a patient in a therapy session.