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FAQ: Brainstorming & Ideation card decks

Brainstorming & Ideation decks are tools designed to spark creativity, generate new ideas, and encourage innovative thinking. Each card typically contains prompts, questions, or exercises that challenge users to think outside the box, explore different perspectives, or combine concepts in new ways. These decks are characterized by their ability to disrupt habitual thinking patterns, inspire creative problem-solving, and guide users through structured or unstructured ideation processes. They are flexible tools that can be used individually or in group settings for team collaboration.

Brainstorming & Ideation decks are used by creative professionals, entrepreneurs, designers, teams, and anyone seeking to generate fresh ideas or solve problems creatively. Accessing the decks on your phone makes them more accessible, allowing users to engage with creativity prompts anytime, whether during a brainstorming session, in the middle of a meeting, or when inspiration strikes. The digital format also allows for spontaneous, on-the-go use, making it easier to capture and develop ideas during free moments or collaborate with others remotely.

Brainstorming & Ideation decks are valuable because they provide structured ways to break through creative blocks, inspire new ways of thinking, and encourage ideation in both individual and team settings. They help users approach problems with fresh perspectives, leading to more innovative solutions. As a mobile app, they become even more valuable because users can engage with ideation prompts anytime, anywhere. The app format enhances the experience by offering features like shuffle options, digital note-taking, sharing ideas with collaborators, and reminders to revisit or build on ideas over time, thus fostering continuous creativity.

Brainstorming & Ideation decks are used by drawing cards that offer specific prompts, challenges, or techniques to stimulate new ideas. Users can pull a card to start a creative session, solve a specific problem, or break out of a creative rut. When these decks are available on your phone, they become a portable, always-accessible tool that allows for creativity whenever inspiration strikes. Being digital also makes it easier to share insights with others, store ideas, and revisit them later, enhancing both individual and group ideation processes. The app format encourages ongoing engagement and creative exploration, even during short breaks or in unexpected moments.

9 Problems Digital Card-Decks Solve (Why Decks Series)

CARD-DECKS ARE A MEDIUM FOR MODERN LIFE

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Unleash the Power in Your Pocket: The All-New Card Deck

Forget bulky books and unreliable apps. This isn't your grandma's deck of cards. This is a pocket-sized portal to endless possibility.

Here's why you'll love it:

  • Works Offline: No Wi-Fi, no problem. Pull out your deck anywhere, anytime for inspiration on the go.
  • Never Forgets a Reading: Unlike fleeting digital insights, your cards hold the wisdom you discover, ready to be revisited whenever you need it.
  • Designed for the Digital Age: Scannable QR codes unlock a world of bonus content, multimedia resources, and online communities to deepen your learning.
  • Daily Practice Made Easy: Shuffling and drawing a card becomes a daily ritual, keeping you focused and inspired.
  • Mix, Match & Inspire: Combine multiple decks for unique insights and cross-disciplinary connections.
  • The Marketplace Awaits: Discover a whole new world of curated decks on a thriving digital marketplace. Find decks on any topic imaginable, from self-improvement to creativity to business strategy.
  • Digital Decks = Bite-sized Books: Get the essence of a book in a concise, easy-to-digest format. Perfect for the busy modern mind. The Ultimate Short-Form Media: Ditch information overload. Get powerful insights in a quick, engaging way.
  • This isn't just a deck of cards. It's a pocket-sized library, a daily ritual, and a gateway to a vibrant online community. Invest in your potential, one card at a time.

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Creator:

Nick Kellet.

Fairy Tales metaphoric cards

JOURNEY THROUGH THE ENCHANTING WORLD OF FAIRY TALES WITH SYMBOLIC WISDOM AND INSIGHT.

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Fairy tale metaphoric cards are a tool that uses images and symbols from fairy tales to provide insights into a person's life, emotions, and future. Fairy tale metaphoric cards can be used for a variety of purposes, including self-reflection, decision-making, problem-solving, and spiritual growth. They offer a unique and imaginative way to explore the deeper aspects of our psyche and tap into the collective wisdom of traditional folklore and mythology. They can be an excellent tool for working with both children and adults, providing a creative and engaging activity that can be presented in a game format.
Each of us has an inner child - we were all once children, spontaneous, creative, joyful, curious, and well aware of our desires. However, contact with our inner child can be lost, causing us to miss out on many strong characteristics and joyful opportunities. Fairy tale metaphoric cards can help restore our connection with our inner child and provide a deeper understanding of our desires and motivations. But of course, the benefits of fairy tale metaphoric cards go beyond restoring contact with our inner child. There are lots of articles about the benefits of fairy tale therapy, and the main specific of those cards is that fairytale is a natural, comprehensible and ecological format that does not scare us.
Fairy Tales Deck includes characters, locations, different items (like letter, sword, money chest etc.), animals and other mythical creatures.

Creator:

Yulia Niaguseva

CX Enabler Cards - Part of the CX Fundamentals Tool Kit

SIXTEEN CORE PRINCIPLES TO ELEVATE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

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Elevate your Customer Experience strategy with the CX Enabler Deck, a foundational resource introducing 16 core principles designed to strengthen your CX explorations. Each card spotlights a key CX element, offering both positive actions and cautionary insights to foster balanced, impactful discussions.

  • Foundational Elements: Every Enabler is a cornerstone of effective CX, providing your team with essential guidance for shaping strategy and decision-making.

  • Balanced Perspective: Gain clarity on best practices while staying alert to potential pitfalls, ensuring your approach remains focused and sustainable.

  • Versatile Use: Whether in a workshop or individual review, these insights help you identify key CX priorities and unify your team around meaningful goals.

Though the CX Enabler Deck excels as a standalone resource, it integrates seamlessly with the CX Challenge Deck, which offers 96 targeted prompts for addressing specific CX challenges. Each Enabler is linked to multiple Challenge Cards, bridging the gap between high-level strategic thinking and hands-on execution.

Together, these decks form the CX Fundamentals toolkit—a comprehensive framework for diagnosing, analysing, and transforming your customer journey. Use the CX Enabler Deck to guide conversations, pinpoint focus areas, and align your team on the principles that power exceptional Customer Experiences.

Creator:

Werner Puchert

Rewrite Your Money Story 2

YOUR PATH TO A RICH LIFE

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Open Your Money Creating Potential. Find your unique money story and create a bright and prosperous future. This deck guides you to gently uncover limiting beliefs, cultivate a mindset of abundance, and uplevel - and reach - your money goals. Embrace your money journey and nurture your potential to full bloom.

Miia Pollanen is a money mentor, bestselling author, and dream coach.

Your journey to a richer life starts here.

Your Unique Money Journey

Every woman carries a unique money story, woven with threads of experiences, emotions, and beliefs. This deck invites you to gently unravel the tapestry of your money story, to uncover the hidden patterns and limiting beliefs that may be holding you back.

Through a series of heartfelt prompts, we'll embark on a journey of self-discovery and transformation. Together, we'll explore your past, present, and future money experiences, shedding light on the stories that shape your relationship with money.

As you journey through these cards, you'll cultivate a deeper understanding of your prosperous self, releasing limiting beliefs and embracing a mindset of abundance and prosperity. You'll learn to honor your past, embrace the present, and envision a future filled with money freedom and fulfillment.

Remember, your money story is a work in progress, a beautiful and evolving narrative. Embrace this opportunity to rewrite your story, one uplifting reflection at a time.

Creator:

Miia Pollanen

Quality and Efficiency Expert

WORKSHOPS STRATEGIES TACTICS QUALITY AND BUSINESS EFFICIENCY FRAMEWORKS

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Welcome to the Quality and Efficiency Expert Section of our Essential Business Skills CARD DECKS.

Quality in business is not only crucial for providing superior products and services but also for enhancing the bottom line.

Studies show that on average, 20% of a company's annual turnover is wasted on correcting mistakes and redoing tasks.

As business is fundamentally about people, and people can make mistakes, it becomes imperative to address and mitigate these errors effectively.

Our Operational Quality modules are designed to raise awareness among your staff about the significant implications of poor quality.

By emphasising the importance of doing jobs '100% Right First Time,' we provide the tools and knowledge necessary to reduce errors and increase efficiency.

This proactive approach helps in minimising waste, saving valuable resources, and ultimately boosting the overall profitability of your organisation.

The modules in our Quality and Business Efficiency section offer some of the most effective tools and techniques proven to improve operational quality and streamline business processes.

From Lean methodologies to Six Sigma principles, each card is crafted to deliver actionable insights and practical strategies that can be implemented immediately.

Equip your team with the skills to enhance operational quality and business efficiency.

Our card decks are designed to foster a culture of excellence, where high standards are consistently met, and continuous improvement is a shared objective.

By integrating these practices into your daily operations, you can ensure that your business not only meets but exceeds industry benchmarks for quality and efficiency.

A Practical MBA In Your Pocket.

Creator:

Mike Hardcastle

Team And Group Coaching Superpower Deck

EXPAND YOUR RANGE AS A COACH FOR GREATER IMPACT AND CONNECTION

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Coaching mastery, especially with group and team coaching, is about expanding your range as a coach. It’s about growing your repertoire of questions you can ask, as well as expanding your range of techniques.
Explore questions, techniques and the five coaching superpowers grounded in two decades experience of training group and team coaches by thought leader and group coaching expert, Jennifer Britton. This deck is based on the popular Group and Team Coaching Superpower Quiz™, launched in mid-2021, now taken by thousands of coaches around the world.
Designed for coaches (team coaches, group coaches, leader as coach, peer coaches), the ACTIVATE Your Coaching Superpower Card Deck are geared to spark new ideas. They can be used daily to expand your range, or serve as an inquiry for reflection, or a go-to before a coaching conversation.
The 14 CCE ACTIVATE Your Group and Team Coaching Superpower program is offered three to four times a year to support coaches in learning more about the 5 superpowers, and to put them into play.
In addition to exploring the five superpowers you’ll also explore questions, techniques, and inquiries for each of the five coaching styles.
Expand your range, enhance your co-coaching engagements with the co-coaching alchemy, activate your superpowers, and enhance your conversations with coaching clients in individual, group and team contexts.

Creator:

Jennifer Britton

Portals of Presence

FACES DRAWN FROM THE SUBTLE REALMS

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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
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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.

Breakout and Role Play Expert

WORKSHOPS STRATEGIES TACTICS INNOVATIVE FRAMEWORKS BREAKOUT SESSIONS AND ROLE PLAY

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Welcome to the Breakout and Role Play Expert Section of our Essential Business Skills CARD DECKS.

Research consistently shows that people gain skills more quickly and effectively by actively doing rather than passively listening or reading.

Our breakout and role play sessions are specifically designed to immerse trainees in practical, hands-on experiences, ensuring they acquire the tools and skills necessary for success in a dynamic business environment.

This section covers a wide range of business areas, from sales and leadership to communication, research, and brainstorming techniques.

By engaging in realistic scenarios and interactive exercises, trainees can develop and refine their abilities in real-time, gaining invaluable insights and practical know-how that can be immediately applied in the workplace.

Our approach emphasises experiential learning, where participants actively participate in simulations that mirror real-world challenges.

These sessions foster critical thinking, problem-solving and collaboration, equipping trainees with the confidence and competence needed to excel in their respective roles.

Whether you are looking to enhance your sales strategies, improve leadership capabilities, or boost communication skills, our Breakout and Role Play Sessions provide a comprehensive, immersive learning experience.

Additionally, our card decks facilitate microlearning during meetings, offering concise, targeted learning moments that can be seamlessly integrated into your team's regular interactions making it easy to incorporate skill-building exercises into any meeting agenda.

Empower yourself and your team with the practical skills required to thrive in today’s fast-paced business landscape.

A Practical MBA In Your Pocket.

Creator:

Mike Hardcastle

Pick-a-Postcard: Metaphors for Life Reflection Deck

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