Brainstorming and ideation card decks contain prompts, questions, or images to facilitate creative thinking and generate new ideas. They are selected at random to provide a starting point for brainstorming sessions, and there are many different decks available with unique prompts and images.
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Brainstorming and ideation card decks contain prompts, questions, or images to facilitate creative thinking and generate new ideas. They are selected at random to provide a starting point for brainstorming sessions, and there are many different decks available with unique prompts and images.

High Vibe Card Deck

60 FUN AND SIMPLE ACTIVITIES TO RAISE YOUR VIBRATION FEEL BETTER FASTER AND EXPERIENCE MORE JOY

This empowering 60-card deck offers fun and simple activities to help you get out of your head, reconnect with your body and raise your energetic vibration. When you lift your vibration and 'feel good' you become energetically aligned to receive more joy and ease in your life.

Creator:

Becky Moore

Launch Deck

42 IDEAS TO INSPIRE YOUR DECK CREATION PROCESS

An ideation deck for deck lovers. 42 ideas to launch your Deckible experience.

If you are a creator or a deck lover, this deck is an inspiration. What kind of deck will you use? What kind of deck will you create?

Discover the value of card decks as a universal medium for short-form engagement and participation.

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BRAINSTORMING & IDEATION

Transform Deck

A PRACTICAL TOOL TO INSPIRE YOU TO TRANSFORM LEARNING CONTENT INTO ENGAGING ACTIVITIES.

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.

Creator:

Terry Pearce

A family game which brings charades into the digital age.

Creator:

Kevin Davidson

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

Creator:

Mathias Jakobsen

UnLurk Me!

24 SOCIAL LAWS OF LIVING IN THE SHADOWS. 1:9:90 THE PERCENT RULE

Brands and consumers lurk, but the big question is what makes us unlurk. What makes us feel safe to step out from the shadows. There is an art to participation.

The 1% rule was a wonderful start, but it did not go deep into the psychology of participation and community building.

1:9:90 - aka "the 1% rule" explains human interaction online and in real life.

We are all lurkers in some communities, participants in others and creators in one or two domains.

Going beyond 1:9:90 the book puts lurking in global context.

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Create Your Own Card Deck

A CARD DECK TO CREATE YOUR OWN CARD DECK

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

Leadership Hacks

MAXIMIZE YOUR LEADERSHIP POTENTIAL IN THE WORKPLACE!

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!

Creator:

Level Up Cards

Strategically building a winning organization culture can be as easy as sorting through a deck of cards.

The beautifully designed card deck outlines an integrated system of 81 values that is easy to comprehend, and it gives managers and team leaders a concrete tool they can use to begin crafting their team into a vibrant and attractive place to work.

The SHIFT card deck is an effective tool that helps Leaders & Managers take charge of and shape the organizational culture of their teams.

Go Green Hacks

HELPING YOU TO REDUCE YOUR ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ONE WEEKLY ACTION STEP AT A TIME!

GOING GREEN HAS NEVER BEEN EASIER! Every week, one card is randomly drawn from the 52 card deck. Each card assigns a fun, practical action step that will not only help you reduce your environmental impact, but will often deliver bonus benefits like better health and saving money!

Creator:

Level Up Cards

Angels, Peacocks & Butterflies: 100 Days of Miracles

INTUITION TRAINING FOR BUSINESS OWNERS & ENTREPRENEURS

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!

Creator:

Jean Berry

Heart Action Cards

INVITE MEANINGFUL ACTION

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

Creator:

Heidi Kalyani

The Meeting Spicer (EN)

SHAPING OUR MEETING CULTURE TOGETHER, ONE STEP AT A TIME

What if 30 seconds at the beginning of the meeting and 30 seconds at the end were enough to make them more efficient?

GoCreate

UNLOCK YOUR CREATIVE POTENTIAL

40 days of Creative Play!

You can unlock your creative potential with daily creative play challenges. Explore dance, music, games, storytelling and visual art! No skill or talent required. In fact, this deck will encourage you to let go of perfection and embrace play.
Creative Play is proven to reduce stress and anxiety and increase joy and connectedness.

Level Up Your Creativity!

Creator:

Nina Meehan

MIGHTY MIND CARDS

54 PROVOCATIVE COACHING CARDS FOR AMBITIOUS MINDS

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.

Creator:

STRENGTHWISE

Social Balance Planning Card Deck

FIND YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA ZEN

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

Random Acts of Nonsense - I

SIMLE | LAUGH | CREATE MEMORIES

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!

Creator:

Lesley Graney

The Deck of Ways

21 WAYS YOU USE CARD DECKS TO SOLVE PROBLEMS, ANSWER QUESTIONS AND LIVE A HAPPIER LIFE.

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.

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Wash-a-Pig Kickstarter Preview

A CREATIVE TRAINING GAME

Take the second edition of Wash-a-Pig for a test drive with this 24-card preview deck. Free during the Kickstarter campaign.
Use this code to get yours: https://www.deckible.com/redeem/?token=PENGUIN-161-257

Creator:

Todd Turner

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

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Creator:

Ted

SoulCards 1

POWERFUL IMAGES FOR CREATIVITY AND INSIGHT

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.

Cards for Clear Thinking

CARDS TO MAKE YOU THINK. DEEPEN YOUR THINKING AND YOUR CONVERSATIONS

Think for yourself and as yourself with a versatile deck of 53 cards that will prompt reflection, make you think and provide a framework that will enrich conversations with others, at work and in life.

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Business Meerkat

TAROT-INSPIRED CARDS TO SPARK CONVERSATIONS IN ORGANISATIONS.

The Business Meerkat deck is a set of cards to inspire conversations in organisations that would otherwise not happen. They allow people to lift themselves up out of the day-to-day and scan the horizon for opportunities and danger.

The cards consist of Character Archetypes, Forces and Multipliers. Tarot-inspired deals can be used, or the cards can spark ideas when used in more conventional business analysis models like SWOT or the 7-S Model.

Creator:

Matt Ballantine

HEART SPACE

CONNECTION. REIMAGINED.

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

Creative Thinking Cards: Zany Supplemental

BE WONDERFULLY INVENTIVE!

The zany supplemental to the Creative Thinking Cards, this deck offers new and exciting possibilities to push your creativity to new levels. Each card has an image, a quote, two emojis, and a made-up word that can be combined in multiple ways to spark new ideas.

Creator:

Charles Fischer

Leadership Story Deck

TELL THESE STORIES NOW TO LET THE WORLD KNOW WHO YOU ARE, WHAT YOU DO, AND WHY YOU DO IT.

The Leadership Story Deck contains dozens of cards with the stories that you should be telling now about your most important offerings. The cards will help you find, craft, and sequence your story-driven messages.

With the Story Deck, you can:

• Find your stories of leadership
• Work in teams to develop new stories
• Tell your stories with more impact

The Story Deck is an offering of The Storytelling Leader.

Creator:

David Hutchens

Indistractable

HOW TO CONTROL YOUR ATTENTION AND CHOOSE YOUR LIFE

In Indistractable, Eyal reveals the hidden psychology driving us to distraction. He describes why solving the problem is not as simple as swearing off our devices: Abstinence is impractical and often makes us want more.

Creator:

Nir Eyal

Decks to Dollars

GET YOUR CARD DECK SEEN AND SOLD

This card deck gives you 52 ways to get your card deck out into the world, so that people see it and buy it. Each one of the ideas is a great way to be seen.

The goal is to pick go thru the deck, give each strategy a try, and find the ones that you love doing and that produce the results you want!

Remember you don't have to do them all - it's about doing the ones you love with consistency and having fun!

Creator:

Rosie Battista

Creative Core Oracle Deck

CONNECT WITH YOUR CREATIVITY, CONNECT WITH YOURSELF

This 44 card oracle deck with bespoke watercolor illustrations helps you connect to your creativity while holding moments of uncertainty or doubt with radical self-compassion.

Pick-a-Postcard: Metaphors for Life Reflection Deck

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

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.

Manual Deck

54 HANDS-ON CREATIVE INSTRUCTIONS

Prompted

WRITING PROMPTS FOR CREATIVE THOUGHTS

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

Creator:

Mona

Supposing

REFLECTIONS FOR ACCESSING YOUR WISE INNER ARTIST

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, She 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.

Whether you're a student who is learning to concept like an advertising creative or an A-List freelancer trying to bang out that hundred-and-first idea, Adhouse Of Cards was built just for you. 35 proven techniques - tried and tested at Adhouse Advertising School - and ready to help you crack that award-winning campaign.

WISE WRITER WITHIN ORACLE DECK

WRITING IS YOUR BIRTHRIGHT

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

The Creativity Tarot is a pack of cards inspired by Jungian archetypes, branding archetypes, modern life – and of course traditional tarot decks. We hit on the idea after noticing that a lot of people (including us) have been feeling pretty stuck during the long, uncertain pandemic period. It’s harder to make decisions, harder to motivate ourselves and harder to trust our instincts when everything we thought we knew has been turned upside down.

But our instincts and intuition are still an excellent, and under-valued, starting point for decision-making. However you choose to use them, these cards supply intriguing answers to open-ended questions.

And if that sounds a bit too ‘woo’ for you, each card has a specific, enjoyable, quick challenge written on it. So if deep readings aren’t for you, just draw a card from the deck and commit to the task. Our easy, uplifting challenges are designed to help you connect with that inner child and get up to some mischief. We promise that after building a blanket fort, making a funny meal or writing a furious argument against the existence of a popular season, you’ll feel a whole lot better than you did before.

Creator:

Sarah & Leila

Kick Cards for Business

IDENTIFY RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES WITH SMART PROMPTS

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!

Creator:

James Rutherford

Another Door

WHEN A CAREER DOOR CLOSES...

See change as opportunity
Make it the best thing that ever happened to you.

Creator:

Eleanor Tweddell

SoulCards 2

POWERFUL IMAGES FOR CREATIVITY AND INSIGHT

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.

Modus Operandi

A DECK TO FIND YOUR HOW AND WHY.

The 72-card Modus Operandi Deck is designed to help people sit with life's big questions. Whether solo or with others, prepare for meaningful reflection.

This pandemic has forced us to reconsider/ question so many of the ideas, motivations, and historical circumstances (personal, familial, and cultural) that got us here. I think it's important we (re)consider what keeps us going and why.

Creator:

Rayshauna Gray

Creative Thinking Cards

EMBRACE YOUR CREATIVITY!

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.

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Creator:

Charles Fischer

Mindset Reset

SHUFFLE & SHIFT YOUR MINDSET

This deck is for a mindset reset, with a quick shuffle you can make a quick shift in your thinking and perspective. Pull one card from each category and create a new statement to consider.

Creator:

Rosie Battista

The Playful Facilitator Deck

70 IDEAS TO ADD CURIOSITY, CREATIVITY AND CONVERSATION TO YOUR WORKSHOPS.

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!

Creator:

Cat Hase

Sneakerfish Inspired by Nature

INSPIRATIONS & PROVOCATIONS FOR CREATIVE AND CRITICAL THINKING

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.

Creator:

Sneakerfish

Portals of Presence

FACES DRAWN FROM THE SUBTLE REALMS

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.

Earth Values for Living Regeneratively

DEVELOPING RESILIENT LEADERSHIP

Earth Values for Living Regeneratively provides an understanding of the ethics the Earth uses to keep life going so that we can do the same.

For us to successfully weather the changes and collapses all around us AND build a new, we must think and act just as Nature does. Combining systems thinking, science and indigenous wisdom, these cards allow the user to learn, reflect and change behavior to become a true partner to our beloved planet. We CAN follow the Prime Directive: All actions create the conditions that support LIFE.

By acting as the Earth does, making decisions that ensure all life thrives, we will recreate a new world, in harmony with nature.

Distant Early Warning Deck

AKA THE DEW DECK - THE PRE-CURSOR TO OBLIQUE STRATEGIES

Six years before Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt designed their first pack of Oblique Strategies cards—a set of random aphorisms meant to clear creative blocks—communication theorist and philosopher Marshall McLuhan had designed a very similar deck in 1969, this one with a more direct nod to the classic playing card deck.

Creator:

Marshall McLuhan