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FAQ: Digital Detox Toolkits card decks

Digital Detox Toolkit Card Decks are designed to help individuals take a break from digital devices and social media, promoting healthier, more mindful interactions with technology. Each card provides a prompt, exercise, or challenge aimed at reducing screen time, fostering real-world connections, and encouraging mental and emotional well-being away from digital distractions.

These decks are used by individuals seeking to improve their relationship with technology, reduce digital overwhelm, or regain focus and balance in their daily lives. They are popular among people who feel the negative effects of constant digital engagement, such as stress, anxiety, or attention difficulties. Wellness practitioners, coaches, and therapists may also use these decks to guide clients in digital detox practices.

You use these decks to break habits of excessive screen time, regain control over your attention, and improve your mental and emotional health. The cards offer structured, actionable steps for reducing reliance on technology, encouraging real-world engagement, and promoting mindfulness. They help create intentional boundaries with digital devices, allowing you to refocus on offline activities and personal well-being.

To use the deck, you select a card each day or during specific moments when you want to disconnect from technology. The card will provide a suggestion such as spending time outdoors, engaging in a tech-free activity, or setting screen time limits. You can follow these prompts as part of a daily detox routine, incorporate them into longer tech breaks, or use them in moments of overwhelm to regain balance. The cards can be used individually, with friends, or in group settings to encourage accountability and foster healthier digital habits.

Return to Mindfulness

EIGHT SKILLS TO LIVE, LOVE, AND LEAD FROM A PLACE OF CLARITY AND CONNECTION

SINGLE DECK

Life is messy. And it’s beautiful. The Return deck offers a mindful lens for everyday life, to find beauty even in the messiness. You can draw cards to gain clarity about what’s happening and what’s important in the middle of a challenging day. You can also practice with the cards when life is good—to deepen your connection with all of life in that moment and make meaningful choices that benefit you, your loved ones, and the world.

Like a mindful friend, these cards are designed to be there for you when you need them.

Practice and play with the mindfulness cards to:

  1. Start your day intentionally
  2. Find clarity about a situation or relationship
  3. Make choices that are personally and collectively fulfilling
  4. Share a meaningful experience with a loved one
  5. Return to your present moment experience, possibilities, and creative insight

These cards are a work of love combining many hours of meditation, contemplative discussions, research, and a human centered approach to address the question:

What would help meditators integrate mindfulness into their everyday life?

The answers, we discovered, are relevant to everyone—whether you’ve been meditating for years or you’re not interested in meditation. Here’s the thing. Our minds enable us to see clearly, connect deeply, and find creative solutions. The same mind can also cloud our thinking, create divisiveness, and cause harm to ourselves and others.

While we may not have control over our circumstances, we can systematically and playfully strengthen habits of the mind that enable us to return to our innate capacity to know, feel, love, and connect with what’s important while staying open to possibilities.

More specifically, there are eight habits of the mind that empower us to be mindful in the real world:
1. Awareness
2. Compassion
3. Curiosity
4. Energy
5. Appreciative Joy
6. Inner Calm
7. Focus
8. Equanimity

Yup, based on the original mindfulness teachings and modern science, we can strengthen these eight habits that disrupt our default tendencies to rush and react and be mindful. This deck was designed to help you do that!

ABOUT THE CREATORS
Each card in this deck has been lovingly created by Dr. Shalini Bahl and Max Alaghband to meet you wherever you are on your journey.

Dr. Bahl brings her lifelong commitment to mindfulness backed by her trainings, award-winning research, and experience of teaching thousands of people around the world.

Max Alaghband brings his training and expertise in yoga and human-centered design, which informed the development, testing, and trying of this product.

Most importantly, we brought our full selves to the project and hope that everyone benefits from these cards as much as we did in the process of creation and continue to do so as a part of our daily practice.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We'd like to acknowledge the mindful energy and creative contributions of the following team members.

Dr. Ankrish Milne ~ Creative OG Team Member
Laureen Andalib ~ Our talented designer for the cards
Jason Garvale ~ Mindful designer of the icons

HOW TO USE THE RETURN DECK

There are many ways to engage with this deck on your own, with a partner, or with a group:

  1. Go through the entire deck, picking one card each day and using it as a reminder to practice and play throughout your day, and/or

  2. Pick a card from a mindful habit you feel you need most in that moment and let it guide you to return to your place of inner knowing, and/or

  3. Pick a random card and trust that that's the mindful habit you most need in that moment to see clearly and act intentionally

If you like, take the free mindfulness assessment to reflect on which mindful habits need your loving attention and which habits you're already strong in: https://knowyourmind.training/take-the-mindfulness-quiz/

Together Equal - Conversation Cards for Kids

CHANGING THE WORLD, ONE CONVERSATION AT A TIME.

SINGLE DECK

We've developed a set of conversation cards which are designed to get kids away from their devices and talking to each other, their families and their friends. The questions are designed to challenge social norms, bring down unconscious bias and tear down the invisible barriers of societal expectations. These products are for parents who want to find different ways to engage with their kids, and start thoughtful conversations about equality.

The questions on our conversation cards are focused on resetting social values. This is our opportunity to rewrite the narrative, build a new base with no unconscious bias, and create a world where kids are kids and their potential has no invisible boundaries.

With 52 different questions such as:

If a man and a woman do the same job should they be paid the same?

What makes a person clever?

These conversation cards help kids develop key soft skills including debate, discussion and persuasion, whilst giving parents new ways to engage their family.

Together Equal is a profit with purpose social enterprise running programmes aimed at giving all children and young adults an equal start in life. Our mission is to promote equality for everyone. We believe this can be achieved by owning the conversation at every level.

To fund our activities we created Conversation Cards for families with kids age 7+ to encourage conversation and debate about equality. We sell these directly to raise money to subsidise our school work, but we work with a number of charities who sell them directly keeping all the profits raised to enable them to continue supporting victims of domestic abuse.

Creator:

Sarah Aird-Mash

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

Richual - Your Relationship Ritual

CONNECTION CARDS TO ENRICH YOUR RELATIONSHIP

SINGLE DECK

Richual is your intimacy wing wo/man, facilitating conscious conversations between you and your beloved to deepen and grow your understanding of yourselves and each other.

This card deck consists of 108 question cards designed to foster a practice of creating regular moments of deeper connection and intimacy in romantic relationships with fun and ease.

Open, loving and curious inquiry is key to living in a healthy and fulfilling relationship. Sometimes we just need a prompt to get going.

Richual is for you & your beloved if you desire to:

• Bring more presence and purpose to your relationship
• Have fun while discovering fresh new ways of relating to your beloved
• Build deeper levels of trust and emotional intimacy
• Get clear on where you’re headed in your relationship
• Uncover what each person needs and values in relationship
• Explore sacred rituals to inspire heart centred sharing.

5 Categories to suit your date & mood:

• Fun - Warm up questions to ease into things
• Open - Find out how they really feel about you & important things in life
• Deeper - More intimate questions to really get to know them
• Closer - Open your hearts to each other
• Desire - Increase play and pleasure.

Who is Richual for?

This card deck is designed for couples at various stages - from those forming a new relationship to those seeking to rekindle the spark, and for anyone committed to continuous growth.

To begin your journey, all you need to do is open your heart to the magic!

HEART SPACE

CONNECTION. REIMAGINED.

SINGLE DECK

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