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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.

HEART SPACE

CONNECTION. REIMAGINED.

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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

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
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.

Positive Infusion - Question of the Day - Clarity Series

FIND CLARITY, ONE QUESTION AT A TIME

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Discover a fun, tactile, and visual way to gain clarity on any subject that matters to you. Everything begins with asking meaningful questions, whether you're aiming to earn more money, start a new business, build or enhance a relationship, or solve a challenge. Spark curiosity, inspire self-reflection, and unlock insights that boost confidence, empower decisions, and ignite excitement for the path ahead.

What You'll Find Inside

Inside this delightful deck, you'll find 26 thoughtfully crafted questions, each flanked by four additional card faces —definitions, author's perspectives, action prompts, and inspirational quotes—designed to guide you toward greater clarity. Whether you read them to yourself or speak the questions aloud, shuffle the cards, draw one or more, and let the experience ignite your creativity. Additionally, capture your insights in a convenient journal and revisit them whenever you seek inspiration, using these multiple facets to enrich your reflection.

Carry your motivation and inspiration wherever you go with these powerful cards. Experience the transformative effect as you connect with the extraordinary person you are!

You are magnificent and worthy of the very best—seize this chance to unlock your full potential and embrace a journey of self-discovery.

Creator:

Victoria Winters

Dissolving Imposter Syndrome

UNCOVER YOUR BRILLIANCE AND SHINE BRIGHTLY

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Welcome to the Dissolving Imposter Syndrome Card Deck.

My intention is for this deck to be used to dismantle and dissolve fears, limiting beliefs, patterns, programs, repeating patterns, unworthiness, self-doubt and anything else standing in the way of you showcasing your Particular skills and gifts. Each of us has a gift or gifts that we have come here to share with others. Sometimes a negative experience, a negative comment, a run of bad luck, low self-esteem, anxiety and regular old fear can get in the way of us Shining our Light, shining and sharing our Gifts with the World.

This deck is here to support you as you navigate the dismantling and dissolving of all the things that stand in your way.

The deck has four categories and several bonus cards. Each category is color coded with a theme.

The first category is the dissolving piece. These cards are yellow. Yellow, like the third chakra to access your Power. These cards provide information and prompts to get you thinking about where Imposter Syndrome may have originated for you.

The second category is called Questions to Support You. These cards are Purple. Another powerful and strong color to lift you up as you contemplate each question meant to support you on your journey.

The third section is called, Inspiration. These cards are pink. The beach scene with a pink background is intended to drop you into a relaxed state and provide a sense of inspiration. As you feel the warmth of the ocean water and air, feel your feet in the sand, the intention here is to feel inspired by the information on these cards.

And lastly, the blue cards are the Take Action cards. This is where I prompt you to take some action each time these cards are pulled. Be gentle with yourself with these and be sure to have fun taking one small step towards your goals and dreams.

A Dissolving Imposter Syndrome workshop will be offered throughout the year. The deck will be a support to the workshop. Rest assured, if you can't take the workshop with me, the card deck will serve as a helpful companion on your journey towards stepping forward with your gifts with more confidence and certainty.

Wishing you so much love and success on your journey and remember to be gentle with yourself and curious about the process.

I look forward to hearing about all your successes and seeing you Shine brightly as the stars in the night sky.

Much love,
Anastasia

Productivity Expert

WORKSHOPS STRATEGIES TACTICS AND PRODUCTIVITY FRAMEWORKS

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

It is widely recognised that action is the key to success. However, as Pareto's principle illustrates, taking the right actions can yield exponential results.

Our productivity expert section is meticulously crafted to equip you with the essential tools to maximise your productivity and achieve outstanding outcomes.

Our workshop cards provide comprehensive coverage of over 40 of the most effective and proven frameworks, strategies and tactics tailored for business leaders. This includes setting SMART goals to ensure your objectives are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound.

The Eisenhower Matrix helps you prioritise tasks based on their urgency and importance, allowing you to focus on what truly matters.

Additionally, our card decks introduce Kanban, a visual workflow management method that enhances efficiency and productivity.

Visualisation techniques are included to help you maintain clarity and focus on your goals. Implementing

Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) will align your team’s efforts with the organisation's strategic vision, driving performance and accountability.

Whether you are aiming to enhance your personal productivity or improve your team's efficiency, our

Productivity Section offers an extensive array of tools and techniques. Each card provides practical, actionable insights designed to optimise your time and resources effectively.

Empower yourself with a toolkit of strategies needed to excel in a fast-paced business environment. Our card decks deliver a structured yet flexible approach to productivity, ensuring you can implement these powerful methods seamlessly into your daily routine.

Achieve more with the right actions and drive your success forward with our Essential Business Skills CARD DECKS.

A Practical MBA In Your Pocket.

Creator:

Mike Hardcastle

Supposing

REFLECTIONS FOR ACCESSING YOUR WISE INNER ARTIST

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Supposing you believed that your best advice comes from within? Not just advice but creative courage for/from your wise Inner Artist. You’ve likely seen rigid art manikins posing on shelves. Have you ever seen this scarf-clad Emotikin living life fully? It's the Inner Artist personified. Go with us and within to explore magical inner landscapes from seashore to mountains and regular places too. These genuine photographs will transport you into soulful encounters with nature and serendipity. A few questions posed on each card point you toward imagining new possibilities. You also get an -ing word for living into the answers, as Rilke once told a young poet. Diving deep into the heart of your creativity has never been so curiously delightful!

When the soul wishes to experience something, she throws an image of the experience out before her and enters into her own image.

~MEISTER ECKHART

Thanks for playing! Be sure to check out the Guidebook, swiping to see all 7 pages, including the origin Story of a Life Before Fully Living and Care of Your Own Emotikin.

ABOUT THE MAKER

Shelly L. Francis is an author and creativity coach, speaker, and metaphortographer, who created her first Emotikin in 2003. She’d forgotten how to play and feel carefree, but the Emotikin brought her back to life. She began enjoying photoshoots and blogging for soul sustenance and fun, and is now happy to share the Supposing cards in print and digitally on the Deckible app. Author of The Courage Way and Eleven Brave Pinecones, Shelly is publisher at Creative Courage Press in Colorado, where she is collaborating with other authors to create more courage for the complexity of being human. Visit CreativeCouragePress.com and Emotikin.com.

Discover Card Deck's Why (Why Decks Series)

28 FUN WAYS TO INTEGRATE CARDS IN YOUR DAILY ROUTINE

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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

THE CHILD PROPHET LOVING KINDNESSES ICONIC DECK

IS YOUR INNER CHILD TRYING TO TELL YOU SOMETHING

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Welcome to this very special intuitive deck of LOVINGKINDNESSES — companion to the award-winning illustrated book, THE CHILD PROPHET — and to the experiences and truths, this tool reveals.

The iconic symbols and energies from spirit and science come through love and serve listening to Source and your intuition. They are a holistic means with which to illuminate your inner voice. Each symbol is rooted in time and space, so each has a powerful vibration familiar to your spiritual essence, and each is easy to wield.

While this deck contains many symbols, the title word LOVINGKINDNESSES is also rich meaning: affection, mercy, reverence, grace, and behavior that expresses love. In Buddhism, it signifies unconditional benevolence to all beings.

LOVINGKINDNESSES has 16 letters. The number 16 symbolizes introspection, wholeness, and completion; it is double purity, kindness, and luck. The esoteric meaning of 16 is that new knowledge is acquired, and there will be opportunities to use it. Sixteen is also the symbol of love and loving in the Bible, and it is the “duality of true love.” In numerology, 1+6=7 and seven convey the responsibility to listen to your inner voice.

There are 67 symbol cards in the deck. 67 is a magical number meaning that your angels are near and ready to help you realize your higher purpose in this earthly life experience.

About the LOVINGKINDNESSES cards and how to use them:

Your intuition is the key to using this deck. First, have a clear intention. Shuffle. Then draw and lay out the cards and interpret them and the message each offers. The symbol on each card is ancient and full of energy and meaning that transcends. Each is innate and speaks on a deeper level with the soul. Each came from Source through meditation and journeying. And messages from Sources come with each symbol to help translate them.

There are four faces on each card:
1) in gold - the symbol, with the name of the card and a few keywords
2) in rose - a deeper derivation of the symbol, a direct message from the inner child – Source
3) in silver - the divination
4/ in blue - related actions you can take

Creator:

Renee Topper

Manual Deck

54 HANDS-ON CREATIVE INSTRUCTIONS