Brainstorming and ideation card decks contain prompts, questions, or images to facilitate creative thinking and generate new ideas. They are selected at random to provide a starting point for brainstorming sessions, and there are many different decks available with unique prompts and images.
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Brainstorming and ideation card decks contain prompts, questions, or images to facilitate creative thinking and generate new ideas. They are selected at random to provide a starting point for brainstorming sessions, and there are many different decks available with unique prompts and images.

25 Essay Writing Tips

SUPPORTING YOUR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE

25 Essay Writing Tips is a deck that is designed to support students in their pursuit of academic excellence. It is practical and user-friendly, and explains the essential steps to follow to write high-quality essays.

Each card contains key principles from the creator's Essay Writing Excellence Workshop, which teaches students how to raise their grades by mastering the art of essay writing.

This deck can be used as a reference during the paper writing process, and specific topics can be searched using the card titles.

All the best with your essay writing!

Creator:

Jennifer Snoxell

50 Ways to Use Your Card Deck

FABULOUS IDEAS TO BUILD YOUR BUSINESS, GROW YOUR COMMUNITY, SUPPORT YOUR CLIENTS AND CREATE AN INCOME STREAM

A Card Deck is quite the gem of a tool for coaches, authors, trainers, teachers, preachers, and anyone wanting to teach and share their message with their audience.

This 50-Card Deck shares 50 ways to use your card deck to get your message out there.
With ideas for building your business, growing your community, supporting your clients &
making more money.

Creator:

Rosie Battista

Whether you're a student who is learning to concept like an advertising creative or an A-List freelancer trying to bang out that hundred-and-first idea, Adhouse Of Cards was built just for you. 35 proven techniques - tried and tested at Adhouse Advertising School - and ready to help you crack that award-winning campaign.

Angels, Peacocks & Butterflies: 100 Days of Miracles

INTUITION TRAINING FOR BUSINESS OWNERS & ENTREPRENEURS

A transformational Game of Business Owners
Simple & Fun Daily Practice to provide consistent manifesting results in your business.

Tap into your Soul's Guidance system for clarity, inspired actions and grounding.

Start your 100 Days of Miracles now!

Creator:

Jean Berry

Another Door

WHEN A CAREER DOOR CLOSES...

See change as opportunity
Make it the best thing that ever happened to you.

Creator:

Eleanor Tweddell

Beautiful Trouble Strategy Cards

A REVOLUTION IN A BOX

The key strategies and tactics that have inspired centuries of people-powered victories now in a deck of 100+ cards YOU can play!

Business Meerkat

TAROT-INSPIRED CARDS TO SPARK CONVERSATIONS IN ORGANISATIONS.

The Business Meerkat deck is a set of cards to inspire conversations in organisations that would otherwise not happen. They allow people to lift themselves up out of the day-to-day and scan the horizon for opportunities and danger.

The cards consist of Character Archetypes, Forces and Multipliers. Tarot-inspired deals can be used, or the cards can spark ideas when used in more conventional business analysis models like SWOT or the 7-S Model.

Creator:

Matt Ballantine

Cards for Clear Thinking

CARDS TO MAKE YOU THINK. DEEPEN YOUR THINKING AND YOUR CONVERSATIONS

Think for yourself and as yourself with a versatile deck of 53 cards that will prompt reflection, make you think and provide a framework that will enrich conversations with others, at work and in life.

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Cognitize

52 CARDS OF LIMITLESS LEARNING

COGNITIZE is a people development-focused card deck that creates limitless opportunities for people to transfer their learning into cohesive action through the power of story and sharing. Develop ourselves and gift our knowledge to others.

COGNITIZE – to learn, share, grow and repeat.

Creator:

Scott Leiper

Create Your Own Card Deck

A CARD DECK TO CREATE YOUR OWN CARD DECK

Course in a Card Deck: Create your card deck from idea to design to print-ready and published. This card deck will help you understand every single step involved including card sizes, postal sizes, how to create your card deck designs, template sizes to use, pricing, printing, launching and designing. More information is available at www.carddeckpublishing.com

Creating Your Digital Deck

THIS CARD DECK IS REALLY A COURSE

Easy Steps for Successfully Creating your dynamic digital card deck. Learn from the talent and expertise of a strong creative team by your side.

The 5 characters in this deck represent the parts of the creation process that you'll want to access in order to successfully create an amazing card deck that will be useful, fun and impactful on the Deckible platform.

Creator:

Rosie Battista

Creative Core Oracle Deck

CONNECT WITH YOUR CREATIVITY, CONNECT WITH YOURSELF

This 44 card oracle deck with bespoke watercolor illustrations helps you connect to your creativity while holding moments of uncertainty or doubt with radical self-compassion.

Creative Thinking Cards

EMBRACE YOUR CREATIVITY!

This powerful deck of creative thinking cards will provide hours of inspiration. Learn new strategies for creative thinking and use the random elements to explore hundreds of ideas and combinations. Each card has an image, a quote, two icons, and a random word that can be combined in multiple ways for writing, daily journaling, and creative enterprises. Designed by an award-winning author and teacher, these cards will change the way you see everything.

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Creator:

Charles Fischer

Creative Thinking Cards: Zany Supplemental

BE WONDERFULLY INVENTIVE!

The zany supplemental to the Creative Thinking Cards, this deck offers new and exciting possibilities to push your creativity to new levels. Each card has an image, a quote, two emojis, and a made-up word that can be combined in multiple ways to spark new ideas.

Creator:

Charles Fischer

The Creativity Tarot is a pack of cards inspired by Jungian archetypes, branding archetypes, modern life – and of course traditional tarot decks. We hit on the idea after noticing that a lot of people (including us) have been feeling pretty stuck during the long, uncertain pandemic period. It’s harder to make decisions, harder to motivate ourselves and harder to trust our instincts when everything we thought we knew has been turned upside down.

But our instincts and intuition are still an excellent, and under-valued, starting point for decision-making. However you choose to use them, these cards supply intriguing answers to open-ended questions.

And if that sounds a bit too ‘woo’ for you, each card has a specific, enjoyable, quick challenge written on it. So if deep readings aren’t for you, just draw a card from the deck and commit to the task. Our easy, uplifting challenges are designed to help you connect with that inner child and get up to some mischief. We promise that after building a blanket fort, making a funny meal or writing a furious argument against the existence of a popular season, you’ll feel a whole lot better than you did before.

Creator:

Sarah & Leila

Decks to Dollars

GET YOUR CARD DECK SEEN AND SOLD

This card deck gives you 52 ways to get your card deck out into the world, so that people see it and buy it. Each one of the ideas is a great way to be seen.

The goal is to pick go thru the deck, give each strategy a try, and find the ones that you love doing and that produce the results you want!

Remember you don't have to do them all - it's about doing the ones you love with consistency and having fun!

Creator:

Rosie Battista

Distant Early Warning Deck

AKA THE DEW DECK - THE PRE-CURSOR TO OBLIQUE STRATEGIES

Six years before Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt designed their first pack of Oblique Strategies cards—a set of random aphorisms meant to clear creative blocks—communication theorist and philosopher Marshall McLuhan had designed a very similar deck in 1969, this one with a more direct nod to the classic playing card deck.

Creator:

Marshall McLuhan

Earth Values for Living Regeneratively

DEVELOPING RESILIENT LEADERSHIP

Earth Values for Living Regeneratively provides an understanding of the ethics the Earth uses to keep life going so that we can do the same.

For us to successfully weather the changes and collapses all around us AND build a new, we must think and act just as Nature does. Combining systems thinking, science and indigenous wisdom, these cards allow the user to learn, reflect and change behavior to become a true partner to our beloved planet. We CAN follow the Prime Directive: All actions create the conditions that support LIFE.

By acting as the Earth does, making decisions that ensure all life thrives, we will recreate a new world, in harmony with nature.

Embrace Your Muse (Deck)

A FICTION WRITER'S AID

Welcome to EMBRACE YOUR MUSE card deck, a seriously fun way to expand your story while writing within your current work in progress. By having one thought lead to another, which leads to another, and so on down a path of your own choosing, out to Left Field, if you will, these cards will inspire your unique imagination.

GoCreate

UNLOCK YOUR CREATIVE POTENTIAL

40 days of Creative Play!

You can unlock your creative potential with daily creative play challenges. Explore dance, music, games, storytelling and visual art! No skill or talent required. In fact, this deck will encourage you to let go of perfection and embrace play.
Creative Play is proven to reduce stress and anxiety and increase joy and connectedness.

Level Up Your Creativity!

Creator:

Nina Meehan

Go Green Hacks

HELPING YOU TO REDUCE YOUR ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ONE WEEKLY ACTION STEP AT A TIME!

GOING GREEN HAS NEVER BEEN EASIER! Every week, one card is randomly drawn from the 52 card deck. Each card assigns a fun, practical action step that will not only help you reduce your environmental impact, but will often deliver bonus benefits like better health and saving money!

Creator:

Level Up Cards

Heart Action Cards

INVITE MEANINGFUL ACTION

Invite meaningful action in your morning practice, yoga class, meeting, 1:1 sessions, group gatherings, or any time you yearn for connection!

For this deck, I have lovingly chosen words that inspire us to take action that aligns with our vision and values (or what matters deep in our hearts) and helps us engage with everyday life in authentic and meaningful ways.

The kind of action we take shapes everything!

How will you engage with your day? With yourself? With the people around you?

Will you Collaborate? Create? Receive? Dream?
Listen? Explore? Rest?

The artwork for this deck is hand printed (by me!) with gold ink on beautiful handmade recycled paper with a printing block I designed and carved by hand, and a set of custom made rubber stamps.

24 square cards. Shimmery gold on black.

Heidi Kalyani is an architect of HEART•SPACE.
She lives in a small house with lots of sunlight in rural Nova Scotia, Canada.

Copyright © Heidi Kalyani, 2022
heartwideopen.ca

Creator:

Heidi Kalyani

Heart Reflection Cards

INVITE INSPIRING REFLECTION

Invite inspiring reflection in your morning practice, yoga class, meeting, 1:1 sessions, group gatherings, or any time you yearn for connection!

For this deck, I have lovingly chosen a collection of words to help you illuminate your vision and values (or what matters deep in your heart), so that you can engage with everyday life — at home, work or play — in empowering, authentic and meaningful ways.

Take some time to reflect and connect!

How will you inspire your connection with life? With yourself? With the people around you?

With Compassion? Laughter? Patience? Humility?
Stillness? Courage? Love?

The artwork for this deck is hand printed (by me!) with gold ink on beautiful handmade recycled paper with a printing block I designed and carved by hand, and a set of custom made rubber stamps.

24 square cards. Shimmery gold on black.

Heidi Kalyani is an architect of HEART•SPACE.
She lives in a small house with lots of sunlight in rural Nova Scotia, Canada.

Copyright © Heidi Kalyani, 2022
heartwideopen.ca

Creator:

Heidi Kalyani

HEART SPACE

CONNECTION. REIMAGINED.

HEART SPACE

Connection. Reimagined.

Deepen and demystify the art of creating safer spaces - one card at a time!

This deck puts the six foundational essences of heart space, plus thirty-six empowering embodiment practices, at your fingertips so you can begin to harness their transformative power in the work you do to support others.

This deck can help you:
- boost engagement and participation
- minimize conflict, anxiety and boredom
- amplify trust and respect
- strengthen flexibility and resilience
- increase empathy
- foster a deep sense of being seen and heard

Use the deck to gain confidence with simple yet powerful practices that foster authentic, meaningful connection for you and the people you serve. Draw a single card for inspiration, select a handful of cards to increase your comfort level and proficiency, create a full hex-shaped layout to explore a specific challenge, or choose a card to share as an opening circle, journal prompt or discussion topic with your clients, staff, students or participants.

This deck is ideal for:

coaches, counsellors, yoga instructors, healers, teachers, facilitators, event organizers, leaders, managers, caregivers, mentors, change-makers or anyone else who is passionate about building safer spaces

48 cards (with detailed descriptions and journal prompts).

Enjoy the deck on your own or share the experience with others.


Designed and created by Heidi Kalyani
heartwideopen.ca/heartspace
Copyright © Heidi Kalyani, 2022

Heidi Kalyani is an architect of HEART SPACE who is passionate about building spaces that foster authentic, nourishing, meaningful connection. She also loves singing, writing, designing, hiking, cooking, and drinking hot steamy tea. She lives in a small house with lots of sunlight in rural Nova Scotia, Canada.

Creator:

Heidi Kalyani

High Vibe Card Deck

60 FUN AND SIMPLE ACTIVITIES TO RAISE YOUR VIBRATION FEEL BETTER FASTER AND EXPERIENCE MORE JOY

This empowering 60-card deck offers fun and simple activities to help you get out of your head, reconnect with your body and raise your energetic vibration. When you lift your vibration and 'feel good' you become energetically aligned to receive more joy and ease in your life.

Creator:

Becky Moore

Hooked

HOW TO BUILD HABIT-FORMING PRODUCTS

Nir Eyal answers these questions (and many more) by explaining the "Hooked Model" -- a four steps process embedded  into the products of many successful companies to subtly encourage customer behavior.

Creator:

Nir Eyal

Contemplate, connect & commit to the awesome power inside you. These cards are at the prefect addition to angel and oracle card readings for deeper thought and self reflection. More than just powerful affirmations they connect you to the power within yourself. As you say "I Am" and contemplate on the prayer on the back- you commit and connect to a power greater than yourself. Randomly select a card each day that will help you look at life in a whole new light.

Creator:

Rosie Battista

Indistractable

HOW TO CONTROL YOUR ATTENTION AND CHOOSE YOUR LIFE

In Indistractable, Eyal reveals the hidden psychology driving us to distraction. He describes why solving the problem is not as simple as swearing off our devices: Abstinence is impractical and often makes us want more.

Creator:

Nir Eyal

Inspiration Wild Cards

A SET OF 50 INSPIRATIONAL CARDS TO STIMULATE YOUR CREATIVITY.

Inspiration Wild Cards is a set of 50 inspirational cards out of 5 categories. Every card is a stimulation for your creativity. The categories are: super forces, fiction laws, super heroes, stereotypes and nightmares.
This is an inspirational tool for brainstorming, containing 50 wild cards with food for thought. Give your ideation inspiration and boost your innovation with sparks of craziness. The cards bring unexpected solution spaces in every design workshop and disrupt common thought patterns for any product. You want rad product ideas? Here you have 5x10 wild directions you didn't think of.

Creator:

Jens Mühlstedt

IT Priorities

50 THINGS ON THE CIO'S MIND

A deck of 50 cards that represent 50 things that might be on a CIO's priority list.

Creator:

Matt Ballantine

Kick Cards for Business

IDENTIFY RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES WITH SMART PROMPTS

Kick Cards are guided prompts, presenting discussions for teams and introspection topics for solo entrepreneurs.
They're suitable for idea sessions and to sharpen thinking - and also as a facilitation, mentoring, and educational tool.
Take a card, explore and build within your team, or pick one just for yourself to consider for the day.

I've tried, tested, iterated and improved them over years of conversations with teams and business owners.
They bring you the topics that should be discussed but often aren't.

What are you not seeing?.. Unlock your business potential!

Creator:

James Rutherford

Launch Deck

42 IDEA TO INSPIRE YOUR DECK CREATION PROCESS

An ideation deck for deck lovers. 42 ideas to launch your Deckible experience.

If you are a creator or a deck lover, this deck is an inspiration.

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Card Deck Genres:

Brainstorming & ideation

Leadership Hacks

MAXIMIZE YOUR LEADERSHIP POTENTIAL IN THE WORKPLACE!

LEADERSHIP TRAINING PROGRAM THAT WILL HAVE YOU HITTING THE GROUND RUNNING! Goals are broken down into powerful but manageable weekly action steps that encourage developing leaders to practice winning behaviors, integrate powerful information, and focus on thoroughly developing a wide range of leadership skills. With only 2 minutes of reading a week, you will have all the time in the world to implement new behaviors that can result in big changes!

Creator:

Level Up Cards

Leadership Story Deck

TELL THESE STORIES NOW TO LET THE WORLD KNOW WHO YOU ARE, WHAT YOU DO, AND WHY YOU DO IT.

The Leadership Story Deck contains dozens of cards with the stories that you should be telling now about your most important offerings. The cards will help you find, craft, and sequence your story-driven messages.

With the Story Deck, you can:

• Find your stories of leadership
• Work in teams to develop new stories
• Tell your stories with more impact

The Story Deck is an offering of The Storytelling Leader.

Creator:

David Hutchens

Manual Deck

54 HANDS-ON CREATIVE INSTRUCTIONS

A family game which brings charades into the digital age.

Creator:

Kevin Davidson

Mindset Hacks

HEALTHY MINDSET, HAPPY LIFE!

Level UP Your Life With Mindset Hacks! This Deck Will Guide You Through Weekly Action Steps That Will Turn Your Mindset Into A Powerful Manifesting Machine That Will Help You Realize Your Potential And Life The Life You've Always Dreamed!

Creator:

Level Up Cards

Mindset Reset

SHUFFLE & SHIFT YOUR MINDSET

This deck is for a mindset reset, with a quick shuffle you can make a quick shift in your thinking and perspective. Pull one card from each category and create a new statement to consider.

Creator:

Rosie Battista

Modus Operandi

A DECK TO FIND YOUR HOW AND WHY.

The 72-card Modus Operandi Deck is designed to help people sit with life's big questions. Whether solo or with others, prepare for meaningful reflection.

This pandemic has forced us to reconsider/ question so many of the ideas, motivations, and historical circumstances (personal, familial, and cultural) that got us here. I think it's important we (re)consider what keeps us going and why.

Creator:

Rayshauna Gray

Over One Hundred Worthwhile Dilemmas by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt

The Oblique Strategies deck is a creative tool designed to help artists, musicians, writers, and other creative individuals overcome creative blocks or to stimulate new ideas.

It was created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt in the 1970s and consists of a deck of cards, each with a unique phrase or suggestion to help users approach a problem or challenge from a different perspective.

The phrases on the cards are intentionally vague and open-ended, allowing users to interpret them in their own way and apply them to their specific situation. The goal is to encourage users to think outside the box and explore new avenues of creative expression.

The deck has become popular among artists and creatives and has been used by a wide range of individuals, including musicians like David Bowie and Radiohead.

Photography Ideas - Volume 1 (Deck)

TAKE CREATIVITY WHEREVER YOU GO WITH THIS PHOTOGRAPHY DECK FULL OF IDEAS!

Includes 50 theme / challenge photography idea cards.

Pick-a-Postcard: Metaphors for Life Reflection Deck

METAPHORIC REFLECTION CARDS TO INSPIRE MEANINGFUL ENGAGEMENT, CONVERSATION, GROUP FACILITATION, COACHING, TEACHING AND GOAL SETTING

Transcend the traditional sharing circle and reflection conversation with the power of metaphoric imagery. People often find it easier to express themselves through a picture or symbol rather than through verbal means. Because participants can talk about the object or image rather than about themselves directly, they express thoughts that would otherwise be left unsaid. The thoughts, ideas and connections inspired by the imagery lead to broader and deeper reflection sessions because metaphors and symbols stimulate multiple areas of the brain and involve all senses. This approach can be especially helpful for more introverted or reluctant group members.

This tool is useful for both individual and collaborative reflection and is used in restorative circles and appreciations, group norms conversations, and goal setting.

• Facilitate strong beginnings and optimistic endings to group work or coaching sessions.
• Inspire meaningful engagement, reflection and dialogue that goes beyond traditional verbal techniques.
• Spark creative writing, exploration of personal or group strengths or goals.

PlayCards

BUILD SKILLS TO INNOVATE

PlayCards distil six years of research into the skills and capabilities organisations need to be able to innovate into a simple tool that helps individuals, small groups and teams.

In his work, Matt Ballantine has spoken with people in traditional businesses, the arts, government, consulting and more to create a straightforward model that helps people to understand what they need to be able to do to do things differently.

PlayCards enable you to play with those concepts, and take clear actions to build up the attributes you and your organisation need to innovate in our ever-changing world.

They are a 52-card deck that can be used solo, with groups or by facilitators to help people to explore their Play Skills. Designed by Matt Ballantine after many years of research, the cards have been beautifully illustrated by Ellie Dallison from Studio KT1.

Creator:

Matt Ballantine

Portals of Presence

FACES DRAWN FROM THE SUBTLE REALMS

Enter a deeper relationship with yourself and the world through the universal language of the human face. The images in this deck were selected from 20 years of work created in the presence of ancient trees, mountains, standing stones, temples, cathedrals, and human wisdom carriers from many lineages. Each face radiates a unique presence. Think of them as allies, nature spirits, beloveds, or visitors from subtle realms. Gaze deeply and explore your relationship with these beings.
Rather than offer written meanings, the guidebook supports you to cultivate your own experience of the cards. It offers ways to select them, lay them out, and enliven them through creative processes. It also includes digital access to a guided meditation with original music. Use it to hold sacred space while you work with the cards. Portals of Presence can be combined with SoulCards 1&2, each deck bringing a new dimension to the other.

“A gift to everyone who will look into infinity through these eyes.” Vicki Robin

“The deck has sacred assignments, for they are instruments of attunement that bridge us to sacred relationships and co-creation with the most intimate forces in life.” Orion Foxwood

“Wonderful windows into the worlds beyond…where wisdom can be sought and exchanged.” Caitlin Matthews
MORE INFORMATION FROM THE GUIDEBOOK

Approach this deck with an open mind and heart. It is not an oracle in the usual sense. It is an invitation to develop relationship with the great community of life. May these faces, drawn from the heart of the world, open portals to the subtle worlds, reminding us of the wholeness within which we reside. Gaze at these beings and allow your experience to unfold.

The Vision for this Deck

The 72 faces in Portals of Presence were selected from among thousands of Touch Drawings I created over twenty years. Each face was drawn in a particular setting: beneath an ancient tree, on a mountaintop, in a sacred temple, before a standing stone, or in the presence of a human soul. As I sat with each of them, I used the process of Touch Drawing https://touchdrawing.com to translate my subtle impressions into the form of a human face. Each face radiates a presence that is both unique and universal.
The face is the most familiar visual pattern in the human psyche. From the moment we are born, we center our world on the faces of the people close to us. As we gaze into their eyes, they gaze back. In mirroring each other, we communicate on a level beyond words. There is mutuality in this meeting.
Can we use this primal visual language to open portals of communion with our own deeper psyche and realms of consciousness beyond our familiar human world? A face in a printed photograph is only ink on paper. Yet we can attune to the presence of the person represented through focusing on the image. The faces on these cards can be used as focal points through which to attune to a more expansive range of consciousness. Think of them as personifications of elemental life forms, ancient wisdom lineages, spiritual allies, or visitors from unfamiliar realms.
There is a mystery that fuels this deck; a sense that unseen beings want to engage with it as a point of contact with our human-centric world. In this time of accelerating challenge on the planet, the possibility of expanding our range of connection can offer hope that we do not have to face our challenges alone. Rather, we are in this predicament because we have lost our sense of communion with life. Use this deck to expand your awareness to your deeper self, subtle realms beyond the familiar human world, and the sentience in all life.

A Larger Context

I have been involved with the teachings of David Spangler for many years. He offers a spiritual perspective that is deeply affirming of the experience of being human. His articulation of the sacredness of life, which he calls Incarnational Spirituality, encompasses an ecological understanding of the subtle realms. This worldview has provided a larger context in which I hold my life and work. Here are some of his thoughts. I hope it will enhance your understanding of this deck:
What is important in working with the subtle dimensions and with subtle allies is a deepening of your sense of being part of a living universe. Although contact and collaboration with the subtle worlds serve an important purpose — and increasingly so as we move into the future —what is equally important is that you re-envision and re-experience who you are.
You are a citizen, a participant, in a community of life, unfolding and thriving in a cosmos that is itself alive. One of the vital lessons arising from taking the time and attention to seek communion with the subtle life around you, is that you can discover yourself deepening into this community. And not only deepening, but being welcomed home. You are discovering the family you are part of, and with it, discovering the power you possess arising from this relationship.
One of the unfortunate consequences of life in our incarnate realms is that conditions of separation and alienation have developed. This is certainly true within the human experience, but it extends into the experiences of other forms of life as well. Barriers come into being that were never intended, but which are the result when different members of the same family forget how to talk to each other. To ignore the life around you or assume, because you cannot see it, that it does not exist is to confine yourselves to an echo chamber in which you only talk with others of your kind. Your world shrinks and you shrink with it.
The world you live in is expansive, and you are expansive as part of it. Achieving communication with a specific subtle being is less important than achieving communion with the community of all life, physical and non-physical, that embraces and holds you. This is a deepening and an opening of the heart to the life in the world around you. Just a simple acknowledgement, with love, of this life is enough to start the key turning that unlocks the door to the wider universe.
—David Spangler, Lorian.org

Sources

The faces in this deck were selected from among many drawings created in many settings. I do not identify the situation in which Portal drawings were created. This allows the user to experience them directly, without mental associations. But to give a sense of the depth and breadth of this body of work, below is a list of places, events and people whose spirit inspired one or more of the faces in this deck. Over time I will offer stories behind some of the faces in this deck as blog posts. Find these plus more images at touchdrawing.com.

Places

Isle of Iona, Rosslyn Chapel and the Callenais Stones in Scotland, Chartres Cathedral in France, Mayan Temples Tikal & Uaxactun in Guatemala, Llanfeugan Yew Circle in Wales, Avebury Stone Circle in England, Singing Hill in California, La Push Quilute Reservation, Whidbey Institute, Mount Pilchuck, Skalitude, and my island studio in the Pacific Northwest US.

Events

Parliament of the Worlds Religions, Global Earth Repair, Fairy and Human Relations Congress, Women of Wisdom, Seeds of Compassion, Dawn of Interspirituality, Findhorn Co-Creative Spirituality, Engaging the Other, Whidbey Winter Gathering, Gather the Women, New Stories, One the Event, Systemic Constellations Conference, Wisdom University’s Wisdom and Civilization, Mevlevi Whirling Dervish Sema, Indigenous Grandmothers Gathering, and Lorian Association classes.

Humans

His Holiness the Dalai Lama, David Spangler, James Twyman, Jim Garrison, Junko Kurata (Japan), Sister Lucy Kurien (India), Kai Fleming-Snow, Elias Lonsdale, Leland Kaiser, Mayan elder Tata Pedro Cruz Garcia (Guatemala), Lomilomi Kahuna Aunty Angeline Locey (Kauai), Maori Chieftess Dell Wihongi (New Zealand), Shaman Don Alverto Taxo (Equador), Abuela Margarita (Mexico), and the spirit of George Floyd & BLM.

Prompted

WRITING PROMPTS FOR CREATIVE THOUGHTS

Thought-provoking prompts, designed by a poetry workshop facilitator, for whenever you need journaling or daily writing practice inspiration.

Creator:

Mona

The Question Cards have a set of self-reflection prompts that you can use for journaling or in conversation

Creator:

Mathias Jakobsen

Quotables

INSPIRING QUOTATION CARDS TO SPARK CREATIVITY, CONVERSATION & REFLECTION

40 quote cards with a brief biography of each quote’s author. It includes quotes about teaching, leadership, and learning, plus suggestions for use.

The Quotables are an engaging tool for individual reflection, team building, education, training, coaching, counseling, and personal enrichment programs. Quotables stimulate personal reflection, initiate conversation, spark creative thought, help group members build connections, find common ground, or understand different perspectives.

Use Quotables to facilitate strong beginnings or optimistic endings, create a context for upcoming learning experiences, or celebrate, reflect, and carry learning forward at the end of experiences.

Random Acts of Nonsense - I

SIMLE | LAUGH | CREATE MEMORIES

52 acts in a pack of playing cards. Two years in the making, now available from the shop, and all designed to let you get a little bit of RAON in your life whilst at home with the family! Choose an act which offers a little Dazzle, Dance & Dare, or Words, Whizz & Wonder, or Songs, Snap & Sizzle, or just pick something at random!

Creator:

Lesley Graney