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.

We've carefully curated 50 incredibly useful principles, laws, and tools from the realms of design and user experience and reimagined them with a fresh focus tailored specifically to the world of tabletop games. While user experience is often associated with digital applications, its impact extends far beyond screens. By applying the timeless and effective concepts in this deck to the tabletop games we create, we have the opportunity to transform every aspect of the player's journey.

These principles enable us to elevate the overall experience by ensuring gameplay is not only more intuitive but also more engaging. They streamline interactions, making the process of learning rules and mechanics smoother and more enjoyable, even for new players. Beyond the functional, these principles enhance thematic elements, allowing the core narrative and aesthetic of a game to shine through, enriching the fun and immersion. Whether you're a designer looking to refine your craft or a game enthusiast curious about the design process, this deck serves as an essential toolkit for crafting truly memorable tabletop experiences.

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!

SoulCards help you to access wisdom, intuition and creativity. When a card is chosen in association with a question, the image often evokes immediate insight. The guidebook supports you to use your creative resources to delve into the images through journal writing, storytelling, visualization, movement, dream incubation and other expressive modalities. When used in relationships and groups, SoulCards catalyze refreshing responses and authentic communication. Children are fascinated with the images, and often verbalize with unexpected wisdom and maturity. The uses of SoulCards are endless!

"Mysterious and revealing…these images help us to understand our own souls."
Isabel Allende Author, The House of the Spirits

Through her years of Touch Drawing, Deborah has tapped into a universal level of the human soul. Out of thousands of drawings, she selected 60 to share with the world in the best selling SoulCards 1&2. Each deck is complete unto itself. Used together, they offer a richer range of imagery.

Elevate your facilitation game with a card deck that unlocks deep, thoughtful engagement in every session. Our exclusive card deck, born from the collective wisdom of a vibrant facilitator community on LinkedIn, is your new secret weapon for creating memorable, reflective discussions that resonate long after the workshop ends.

50 fantastic questions to get your participants thinking differently.

Also available for purchase as a white label product you can add your own brand to.

A family game which brings charades into the digital age.

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

Shorts Shots provides 30+ cards (and videos!) with ideas and inspiration for creating short form videos. Just pick a card. Talk on the topic for 60 seconds or less. And upload to YouTube and TikTok!

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.

Take the magic of the museum's collection home with you, with this deck of some of the star exhibits. A game for a storytelling session, to generate ideas for speculative fiction, or to think about some of life's ethical dilemmas through a weird fiction lens. Think 'Scruples' but with added Lovecraft.

Play just for fun, or use for facilitated sessions and workshops.

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.

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.

The Deck of 21 Ways is a unique deck of cards that teaches you how to use cards in new and creative ways.

It's not a deck for playing games with; it is a tool for exploration, discovery, and self-expression.

It show you how people use decks for decision making, ideation and prioritization.

These cards are like your trusty sidekick for those brainstorming sessions that need a little extra oomph. Whether you're a design guru, word wizard, or snapshot savant, these cards are here to shake things up and get those creative juices flowing. With 52 fun cards packed with creative gems, you'll dive into brainstorming sessions and hatch those ideas like never before. From quirky design challenges to offbeat copy prompts, each card is a little slice of inspiration designed to spark ideas and amp up the fun. So grab your team, shuffle the deck, and let the creative sparks fly! There's no telling where your next big idea might come from with these Daily Creative Habit Cards.

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!

Beautiful Trouble exists to make nonviolent revolution irresistible by providing an ever-growing suite of strategic tools and trainings that inspire movements for a more just, healthy, and equitable world.

Beautiful Trouble is a strategy deck that is made up of key strategies and tactics that have inspired centuries of people-powered victories. It’s full of mini-games and inspiration.

Use this deck to get creatively unstuck, design an action that pops, flashcard your way through social movement history, learn and teach organizing, win grassroots victories, or just have fun staying up late with friends playing Radical Charades.

The Poetry LAB was a youth poetry group program developed by Mary Tinucci, who was a social worker in St. Paul Public Schools in St. Paul, MN. The Poetry LAB existed from 2004-2014. This deck emerged and evolved from that program.

The first 6 cards in this deck provide an overview of the mission of The Poetry LAB group model & instructions/guidance for Poetry LAB group facilitators. The remaining 44 cards are writing prompts for the beginning, middle, & ending stages of The Poetry LAB group experience.

A facilitator could use this digital Poetry LAB Prompt Deck (or the physical version of this Poetry LAB Prompt Deck) to guide the writing focus for each group. Allow youth participants to choose writing prompts from the Prompt Deck!

Unleash Your Inner Power: Your Path to Prosperity

Discover the magic within you with our empowering Prosperity Card Deck. Designed specifically for women, this deck is your personal guide to unlocking your full potential and manifesting a life of abundance.

Through daily reflections and insightful prompts, you'll embark on a transformative journey of self-discovery, financial empowerment, and spiritual growth. Each card offers a unique perspective, inspiring you to embrace your strengths, overcome challenges, and create a life you love.

With our Prosperity Card Deck, you'll:

• Ignite Your Inner Power: Tap into your innate wisdom and creativity.
• Cultivate a Positive Mindset: Shift your perspective and attract abundance.
• Achieve Financial Freedom: Learn practical strategies for financial success.
• Nurture Your Relationships: Strengthen your bonds with loved ones.
• Prioritize Self-Care: Embrace self-love and wellness.

Ready to unlock your limitless potential? Begin your journey to prosperity today.

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

Who's responsibility is it to write the document? to do the dishes? to handle the case? here is the perfect way to define it!

Visual frameworks are simple sketches and diagrams that you can use to think more creatively about life and work.

Each card has a title and a simple sketch. There are no "right" descriptions. What's important is what you see, and what thoughts and ideas the card conjures for you.

We have included a few games for you to try, but that's just to get you started.

There is an infinite number of ways you can use the cards / framework. The only limit is your imagination.

The Wise Writer Within Oracle Deck is for those ready to unleash their voice and share the message in their heart.

Wise Writers channel their creativity into positive change. They want to leave a legacy of thoughtful writing because they know their words will change the world. Whether you are writing for your business, for a book, or in your own private journal, this deck will open up your brilliant creative flow.

54 beautifully illustrated cards containing powerful statements, prayers, and archetypes will inspire and support you through writing blocks. The guidebook provides you with in-depth meanings of the cards, as well as writing prompts to liberate your Wise Writer Within.

Deck Features

• 54 oracle cards, original artwork
• 140-page guidebook with instructions, in-depth card descriptions, and journaling prompts to inspire you

A practical tool to inspire you to transform learning content into engaging activities, curated from twenty years of learning design experience. Each of the 45 activity cards represents a way to turn content into engaging activities. Plus, seven method cards give you ways to combine, lay out, and play. Whatever sort of learning you create, the transform deck will help you make memorable, enjoyable and effective experiences.

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.

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

Look to Nature to develop ideas and inspirations for problem solving and innovating. This creative thinking card deck helps you link processes, behaviours and systems existing in nature to apply or adapt to your own area for improvement or ideation.

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!

54 MIGHTY MIND CARDS TO UNLOCK YOUR STRENGTH

Explore original self-development and leadership themes through concise descriptions and powerful questions for personal, professional, and relationship growth, all beautifully complemented by unique conceptual artwork.

Designed for coaches, managers, leaders and ambitious individuals, the 54 Mighty Mind Cards ignite fresh insights and empower your journey of self-discovery and business excellence. Included are instructions for personal or group engagement.

Transform challenges into opportunities, enhance your coaching practice, elevate your leadership and achieve personal mastery with the 54 Mighty Mind Cards.

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The most popular TED Talks of all time. this decks is video sampler to showcase videos playing in Deckible.

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.

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.

Staying connected to your audience requires a steady stream of content—blog posts, videos, social posts. The Blog Post Inspiration Deck's three categories of 20 cards each—20 TYPE cards, 20 TOPIC cards, and 20 VIBE cards—will feed your creativity and spark your inspiration with 20 x 20 x 20 (or 8,000!) unique content ideas, enough to create a new piece of content each day for the next 22 years! Get started right away with an integrated guidebook, which provides detailed descriptions of each TYPE, TOPIC, and VIBE, plus examples of how to use each one to dream up content ideas your audience will love.

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.

Unleash Your Inner Power: Your Path to Prosperity

Discover the magic within you with our empowering Prosperity Card Deck. Designed specifically for women, this deck is your personal guide to unlocking your full potential and manifesting a life of abundance.

Through daily reflections and insightful prompts, you'll embark on a transformative journey of self-discovery, financial empowerment, and spiritual growth. Each card offers a unique perspective, inspiring you to embrace your strengths, overcome challenges, and create a life you love.

With our Prosperity Card Deck, you'll:

• Ignite Your Inner Power: Tap into your innate wisdom and creativity.
• Cultivate a Positive Mindset: Shift your perspective and attract abundance.
• Achieve Financial Freedom: Learn practical strategies for financial success.
• Nurture Your Relationships: Strengthen your bonds with loved ones.
• Prioritize Self-Care: Embrace self-love and wellness.

Ready to unlock your limitless potential? Begin your journey to prosperity today.

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.

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

A deck of 50 priorities that might be being considered by an organisation's security team.

Wash-a-Pig cards contain prompts for products, services, target audiences, and writing styles. Mix and match What cards with Who or How cards to generate your "Creative Brief." Then write. Forget work for a minute and let your brain play. You'll be a faster, more productive, and a more creative person for it.

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.

Your social media solved!
The Social Balance Planning Card Deck was created to help you strategically plan your content to improve your social presence and grow your target audience relationship. Using 6 proven categories your week, month, and year of the right content to educate and engage is a no-brainer.

One deck of 50 cards
⭐ Six unique suites
⭐ 48 strategies
⭐ A million possibilities to plan your social media content and have fun doing it!
⭐ Includes 14 days free trial of our complimentary social media management platform SOCIAL BALANCE where you put your plan into ACTION! www.socialbalance.co

Dive into a collection of 70 unique cards, each bursting with fresh ideas inspired by all sorts of games and creative twists on traditional concepts.

Explore 3 categories:

Add CURIOSITY to build anticipation and excitement.

Introduce CREATIVITY to your activities that helps participants discover new thoughts and ideas.

Encourage CONVERSATION that leads to insights, aha moments and action.

Transform your workshops today!