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FAQ: Mindfulness card decks

Mindfulness decks are tools designed to help individuals cultivate present-moment awareness, self-reflection, and mental clarity. Each card typically contains prompts, exercises, or reflections aimed at grounding the user in the present, enhancing focus, or reducing stress. They often encourage breathing exercises, mindful observation, or reflections on emotions and thoughts. The key characteristic of mindfulness decks is their ability to provide quick, digestible content that supports a regular mindfulness practice, reinforcing calm, balance, and awareness.

Mindfulness decks are tools designed to help individuals cultivate present-moment awareness, self-reflection, and mental clarity. Each card typically contains prompts, exercises, or reflections aimed at grounding the user in the present, enhancing focus, or reducing stress. They often encourage breathing exercises, mindful observation, or reflections on emotions and thoughts. The key characteristic of mindfulness decks is their ability to provide quick, digestible content that supports a regular mindfulness practice, reinforcing calm, balance, and awareness.

Mindfulness decks are valuable because they provide structure and guidance for cultivating regular mindfulness habits, which are essential for mental health and well-being. The prompts and exercises offer immediate ways to focus attention, reduce stress, and encourage present-moment awareness. As a mobile app, mindfulness decks become even more valuable because they allow users to access these calming practices anytime, anywhere. Notifications, reminders, and easy access to the decks encourage consistent engagement, helping to build a sustainable mindfulness practice that fits into daily life.

Mindfulness decks are used by drawing cards that prompt specific mindfulness activities, such as breathing exercises, body scans, or mindful observation. Being on your phone changes this by making mindfulness practice more accessible and portable. You can pull up a card during moments of stress, on a break, or even while commuting, ensuring mindfulness is integrated seamlessly into daily routines. The digital format allows users to engage with the content instantly, and app features like guided audio, reminders, and tracking progress can further deepen the mindfulness experience.

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The Empathy Edge

HARNESSING THE VALUE OF COMPASSION AS AN ENGINE FOR SUCCESS: A PLAYBOOK FOR BRANDS, LEADERS, AND TEAMS

SINGLE DECK

Furious customers? Missed deadlines? Failed products? The problems your business faces may stem from a single issue: lack of empathy.

Being empathetic at work means seeing the situation from another’s perspective, and using that vantage point to shape your leadership style, workplace culture, and branding strategy. Pairing her knowledge as a branding expert with proven research and fascinating stories from executives, change-makers and community leaders, Maria Ross reveals exactly how empathy makes brands and organizations stronger and more successful.

Ross shows why your business needs to cultivate more empathy now, and shares the habits and traits of empathetic leaders who foster more productivity and loyalty. She gives practical tips, big and small, for how to align your mission and values and hire the right people, cultivating a more empathetic—and innovative—workplace culture. Finally, she gives you the goods on building your empathetic brand in an authentic and proactive way, and shows how doing so results in happier customers, innovative work cultures and increased profits.

In this card deck version of the acclaimed playbook for businesses of all types, Maria Ross proves that empathy is not just good for society—it’s great for business, and may transform you at a personal level, too.

Creator:

Maria Ross

Communications Expert

WORKSHOPS STRATEGIES TACTICS AND COMMUNICATIONS FRAMEWORKS

SINGLE DECK

Welcome to the Communication Expert section of our Essential Business Skills CARD DECKS.

Effective communication is fundamental to any business interaction, and mastering this skill is crucial for professional success.

Our comprehensive communication section delves into all aspects of interpersonal and organisational communication, providing you with the workshops, tools, strategies and tactics to enhance your interaction skills across various scenarios.

This section covers essential topics such as eye contact, Body Language, and Micro-expressions, helping you understand and leverage non-verbal cues to convey confidence and empathy.

We also explore Personality Awareness and Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP), offering strategies to tailor your communication style to different personalities and enhance your persuasive abilities.

Building trust is a cornerstone of effective communication. Our card decks include techniques like Isopraxism and rapport-building, enabling you to create strong, trust-based relationships with colleagues, clients, and stakeholders. These skills are vital for fostering a collaborative and supportive business environment.

Additionally, our communication section provides practical guidance on presentation skills, ensuring you can deliver clear, compelling messages to any audience.

We also cover the essentials of crafting effective press releases, helping you communicate your organisation's news and achievements with clarity and impact.

Whether you are looking to improve your daily interactions, enhance your public speaking abilities, or master the art of written communication, our

Essential Business Skills CARD DECKS offer a comprehensive, practical approach to developing your communication skills.

Equip yourself with the expertise needed to excel in any business setting.

A Practical MBA In Your Pocket.

Creator:

Mike Hardcastle

Discover Card Deck's Why (Why Decks Series)

28 FUN WAYS TO INTEGRATE CARDS IN YOUR DAILY ROUTINE

SINGLE DECK

Exploring the many way card decks help us life happier lives

Let's Explore 28 Types of Card Deck Usage.

Coaching & Education

  • Learn a new skill: Use cards as flashcards for language learning, coding, or other subjects.
  • Get mentally & physically fit: Create card games to exercise the mind and body.
  • Dare to create something: Use cards as prompts for writing, drawing, or crafting.
  • Test & refresh your memory: Play card games to improve memory and cognitive function.

Creativity & Ideation

  • Get inspired: Use cards as a source of inspiration for creative projects or problem-solving.
  • Get creative & brainstorm: Use cards for brainstorming, mind mapping, or idea generation.
  • Combine options in new ways: Use cards to create unique combinations and explore possibilities.
  • Creative writing: Use cards as prompts for writing exercises or stories.

Workplace Facilitation

  • Plan your future: Use cards for goal setting, vision boarding, or time management.
  • Nurture culture in the workplace: Use cards for team-building activities or icebreakers.
  • Give and get feedback: Use cards for anonymous feedback or appreciation sharing.

Wellness & therapy

  • Reflect deeply on life: Use cards for journaling prompts or meditation.
  • Nurture your focus & concentration: Use card games or solitaire to improve focus.
  • Practice a therapeutic modality: Use cards for art therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, or other modalities.
  • Build rituals & healthy habits: Use cards to create daily or weekly routines.

Prompts & Choices

  • To check in with your values: Use cards for value clarification or alignment exercises.
  • Get mentally unstuck: Use cards for problem-solving or decision-making.
  • Evaluate your life priorities: Use cards for life assessment or goal setting.
  • To put things in sequence: Use cards for planning or organizing tasks.

Challenges & Entertainment

  • To get social and join others in a challenge: Create card-based challenges or competitions.
  • Play games & join challenges: Enjoy classic or innovative card games.
  • Have fun building healthy habits: Use cards for gamified habit tracking.
  • Fend off depression or sadness: Use cards for mood boosting activities or distractions.

Spirituality, Oracle & Tarot

  • To get spiritual: Use cards for tarot readings, oracle card readings, or meditation.
  • To create a vision board: Use cards as visual representations of goals and dreams.
  • To ask a question: Use cards for divination or seeking guidance.
  • To manifest dreams: Use cards for visualization or intention setting.

Additional Ideas

  • Explore the 28 ways we can use card decks: This list itself can be a starting point for further exploration and creativity.

Creator:

Nick Kellet

Mental Toughness

SELF-EFFICACY / COMMITMENT / ATTITUDE / RESILIENCE / FOCUS / EMOTIONAL AGILITY

SINGLE DECK

Have you ever wondered how do some people continually strive towards their personal and professional goals year after year while others give up on them? How do those people stay strong and persevere when there is so much stacked against them? So how did they do it? They were simply not deterred by the uncertainties and difficulties they faced, but they embraced them and learn from them. Adversities are an inherent part of our existence. Consequently, our ability to overcome hardships and take action against unpredicted challenges has always been crucial for the survival of our species, as well as for the development of modern society.
The Mental Toughness cards are designed to help you navigate challenges and obstacles and become more confident in the face of adversity. Grounded in research, the MT cards follow the SCARFE™ Model for MT and are themed on 6 domains: Self-efficacy, Commitment, Attitude, Resilience, Focus, and Emotional Agility.
The MT cards help individual to identify the resilience they already have in their lives and recognise why building MT is vital to coping with difficulties.
The MT cards give information, questions, action points, and tips that can be used in a wide range of conversations and activities.
You can use the cards in teams, pairs, and individually. A MUST tool for individuals, coaches, managers.

With photos by Mandy Seligman

Inner Wonder Cards

WATERCOLORS AND MINI CONTEMPLATIONS & ENCOURAGEMENTS TO CENTER YOURSELF IN SACREDPLAY

SINGLE DECK

Card Deck Genres:

MINDFULNESS

Creator:

Ginger Fung

Sacred Blessings Oracle Cards

AWARD WINNING ORACLE CARDS

SINGLE DECK

The Sacred Blessings Oracle Cards are an award-winning deck of 44 cards and stories. Beautifully illustrated by a collection of artists, they encourage you to live in the richest, deepest, most productive way you can.

The cards yearn to become friends and counselors in the relationship between you and the universe. They have no other goal than to guide you on your path toward fulfillment and bliss. If you give them permission to assist you in what you need right now, you can simply open yourself to the love that the universe showers so freely upon you. The cards can become a benevolent influence in your life, not telling you what to do, but instead, providing you with missing information, so that you can make better life choices. You can use the card messages to discover fully who you are, or find new ways towards spiritual growth and useful remedies for your daily life.

The Sacred Blessings Oracle Cards take you on a journey through your past, present and future that is inspirational, enlightening and awesome. Let the oracle become a light in dark places, strengthening your soul and encouraging change, bringing peace to conflicts and hope to your heart. But before all, may it become a trusted friend, always there when needed most.

The deck includes 18 card spreads.


The Sacred Blessings Oracle Cards are illustrated by a collection of artists around the world, including Catrin Welz-Stein, Holly Sierra, Sundara Fawn, Dominique Hurley, Tatiana Boiko, Eve Andrew, and Carol Herzer. The printed oracle deck includes 44 full color 3 ¾ X 5 ½ cards, a printed guidebook with upright and reverse messages, and a beautiful double printed box. Explore all cards, 47 free card spreads, practices and guided meditations on www.eveningstaronline.com.

Creator:

Eveningstar

Life Cards

DEAL YOURSELF A NEW HAND.

SINGLE DECK

Your brain is a powerful tool. Play LIFE CARDS to program your brain with new software. Think better, faster and more creatively.

Entirely an original concept, designed, developed and successfully play tested over many years, now presented in a handy deck of cards.

Our way of thinking is a habit. A groove in the brain if you like, that is the brain’s preferred route.
Imaging a thought being like running water that creates a course. It always takes the same path, and the longer you think the same way, the deeper the channel gets.

Eventually the thought cannot escape and becomes a habit.

However studies have shown that our brains are actually quite malleable and that there are ways of creating new pathways.

Life cards give you the opportunity to turn the Current View of the Situation into a Better View of the Situation.

CVS 2 BVS
“Hewitt-Gleeson referred to CVS 2 BVS as the “universal software.” What does this term mean? Simply put: Whatever the current view of the situation (CVS), there is always a better view of the situation (BVS) — if one only looks for it. “The universal brain software allows the brain user to switch from one parallel universe to another,” or from the current view to a better view.”

Basically meaning that if you always do what you’ve always done, don’t expect the outcome to be any different and that a new or better view can often deliver a better outcome.

Playing life cards, you will soon discover that with practice, your brain can adapt and begin to look for new pathways all by itself.

Playing life cards will encourage your brain to do what you want it to by deliberately distracting it with a new task or idea.

Life cards are easy and fun to play, loaded with positive intent and motivational concepts.

Card Deck Genres:

MINDFULNESS , SOCIAL GAME

Creator:

Osca Armstrong

ORA+CLE

DIVINATION FOR HUMANS LIKE YOU

SINGLE DECK

Relationships are at the core of our experience: personal, inter-personal and professional. In fact, they are the building blocks that create our lives. How to purify and make these unions more perfect is rich with opportunity.

ORA+CLE is a vehicle for finding meaning & magic in the quotidian. 50 cards of wisdom gained through my decades-long design practice—illuminating ways to reframe, recharge and reflect.

What’s an ORA+CLE Deck?

An oracle deck is similar to Tarot; an object of meditation that encourages its participant to explore and uncover truths about themselves. It holds the promise of a dynamic, positive, spiritual transformation via understanding our essential selves.

Where ORA+CLE differs from an oracle deck or Tarot is that it’s a looser, more utilitarian exploration. Its scope encompasses the emotional experiences we have as designers. ORA+CLE was developed pragmatically, intuitively, and yes, sacredly.

ORA+CLE is meant to be used on its own — as a way of deepening inquiry — or as a compliment to a Tarot practice. Oh! And it encourages you to use your critical thinking skills, too.

While ORA+CLE is a divination tool created with the needs of designers in mind, it works for anyone who interfaces professionally or personally with humans. So, pretty much everyone.

Why an Oracle Deck?

The designer/client relationship is at the core of my professional and artist practice. How to purify and make these unions more perfect is rich with opportunity. The inquiry lights me up.

Cultivating the intimacy necessary for a rewarding designer/client rapport is often avoided under the guise of being ‘professional.’ This fiction results in distrust, disinterest, dissatisfaction. On both sides. My stance is more emotional investment, not less, is the only way to conduct business. ORA+CLE is a tool to harness a paradigm shift.

Why the name ORA+CLE?

The name ORA+CLE began as a typo, and I liked it. The typesetting is an aesthetic composition that also clearly identifies the nature of the object.

Done.

Card Deck Genres:

ORACLE , MINDFULNESS , DAILY PRACTICE

Creator:

Jennifer Elsner