Conversation Decks

Designed to spark meaningful conversations with the kids in your life, the Little Talk Deck is your perfect companion for creating lasting family memories. This unique card game for kids helps children express their thoughts, fosters self-confidence, and strengthens family bonds.

Now includes an envelope with special cards for Reflect and Connect at the end of the game. Plus, you can use it to take your favorite cards wherever you go!

Categories:

• Life
• Deep
• If You Could
• Random
• Experiences
• Would You Rather
• Reflect & Connect

You don't have to believe in Tarot to use it — and neither do your participants. Set aside the fortune-telling and what you're left with is 78 cards of rich, evocative imagery — images that have sparked stories and meaning since the first cave paintings.

That's the whole idea. People look at a card, say what they notice, and use it to reflect on a challenge, a decision, or how they're showing up. There are no right or wrong interpretations. The cards aren't the lesson — they're the catalyst. Because it's so different from training-as-usual, Tarot naturally captures attention and gets people seeing familiar problems through a fresh lens.

The Tarot for Training Facilitation Set includes:

• Tarot Deck with beautiful, evocative imagery, plus an "Easy Tarot" guidebook. The guidebook isn't necessary for the activities, but it's an interesting resource for anyone who's curious. The full 78-card deck consists of 22 big-theme cards (The Tower, The Star, Strength) plus four elemental suits covering energy, relationships, thinking, and results.
• Facilitation Notes — a 6-page guide that includes:
  • Tips for introducing the use of Tarot in your training
  • A handful of ready-to-run activities, discussion prompts, and card-selection tips
  • Delivered as both a printed booklet and an instant download, so you can start designing before your deck ships

Put the cards to work to:

For 3 to 30 participants, try one of these activities:

• Open with a check-in — "Pick a card that reflects how you're showing up today"
• Debrief a session, project, or retrospective
• Weigh a choice with a two-card pull — the path taken vs. not taken
• Explore past/present/future with a three-card spread
• Deepen coaching and one-on-one conversations

Why Tarot for Training?

When people think differently, they learn differently. And when they think in images, they remember more.

45 science-backed practices to move a room from stressed to steady

Your learners walk in carrying whatever the morning handed them — the tense commute, the hard conversation, challenges at home, the inbox they didn't finish. Before any real learning lands, their nervous systems have to feel settled enough to engage. Calm Cards give you a fast, credible way to help them get there.

Developed by Holstee with nervous-system specialist Jonny Miller, each of the 45 cards distills one evidence-based practice — breathwork, somatic techniques, mindfulness, reflection — into something a person can actually do in two to five minutes. The through-line is real physiology: these practices help activate the parasympathetic "rest-and-digest" response, ease the cortisol surge that comes with fight-flight-freeze, and bring the thinking brain back online. Which is exactly the state you want people in before you ask them to learn, collaborate, or lead.

The deck sorts into five entry points — Body, Awareness, Emotions, Connection, and Reflection — so you can match the practice to the moment instead of hoping one generic "take a breath" works for everyone.

What's in the box

• 45 practices on oversized 4" × 6" cards
• Five categories: Body, Awareness, Emotions, Connection, Reflection
• Soft-touch box that travels well and lives easily on a desk
• Folded guide with five core principles and a plain-language glossary
• Bonus access to Jonny Miller's guided-audio app for practices you can extend beyond the room

Put them to work

Resilience training. Resilience isn't the absence of stress — it's how fast you recover from it. Have participants use the Awareness cards to name their own early warning signs, then build a personal "reset kit" of three or four Body or Emotion cards they'll genuinely reach for. In a multi-session program, revisit the kit each time: what did they actually use, what worked, what do they swap in? You're teaching recovery as a trainable skill, not a mindset poster.

Stress management. Skip the lecture on the amygdala and let them feel it instead. Deal a Body or Awareness card to each table, give everyone three minutes to try the practice, then debrief: what shifted, what didn't, what surprised you? The physiology teaches itself. Leave cards on the tables as between-session resets, or send people home with one to test-drive before the next module.

Team building & leadership. The Connection cards are built for co-regulation — and a team that can down-shift together handles conflict and pressure far better than one that can't. Use a draw-and-share card as a meeting or workshop check-in ritual. For leaders, the move is modeling: open a high-stakes conversation with a grounding practice, and coach them to read their own state before they react. A leader who can catch their own fight-flight-freeze is a leader people stay calm around.

One facilitation note: these practices are trauma-informed by design, so keep participation invitational. Offer the practice, never require it — and let people opt out of body-based or sharing exercises without explanation. That "you choose" framing is what keeps the room feeling safe enough to actually try.

104 questions for building trust, connection, and real conversation in a group

Every facilitator knows the opener that dies on the vine — the forced icebreaker nobody wanted, the round-robin that stays firmly at "fine, thanks." Reflection Cards fix that by giving people a way in that never feels like an interrogation.

Each of the 52 cards carries two questions: a light, easy icebreaker on top and a deeper reflection underneath. That structure is the whole trick. You — or your participants — decide how far to go: ease in with something playful, then drop a layer when the room is ready. No one gets ambushed into vulnerability, which is exactly why people actually open up.

The questions are grounded in mindfulness and positive-psychology research: thoughtful, personal questions engage the brain's empathy circuitry and help people genuinely tune in to one another — the neural version of getting on the same wavelength. For a trainer, that's the raw material of psychological safety, and it's what has to exist before a group will risk a hard conversation, honest feedback, or a new idea.

The deck is color-coded across twelve themes — Intention, Kinship, Wellness, Compassion, Simplicity, Adventure, Creativity, Passion, Resilience, Integrity, Gratitude, and Reflection — plus a Wildcard category. That color-coding is a quiet facilitation gift: you can pre-sort the deck to match your learning objective and deal only the cards that fit the session in front of you.

What's in the box

• 52 cards, 104 questions (an icebreaker plus a deeper reflection on each)
• 12 color-coded themes — Intention, Kinship, Wellness, Compassion, Simplicity, Adventure, Creativity, Passion, Resilience, Integrity, Gratitude, and Reflection — plus a Wildcard category
• Pocket-sized and durable — made by the makers of Bicycle® cards
• Five suggested ways to play
• Abstract card backs that assemble into a single connected artwork
• Sustainably made in the USA on forest-friendly paper

Put them to work

• Session openers that actually land. Skip the tired icebreaker. Deal one card per person or per table and run the top question as a two-minute round to warm the room. When you want more, have people flip to the deeper question — same card, more depth — so the opener doubles as a bridge into your content. Pull the theme that matches your topic: Resilience to open a change-management or stress session, Creativity before an innovation workshop, Intention to kick off goal-setting or a new program, Adventure for a risk-taking or growth-mindset module.
• Team building & psychological safety. "I never knew that about you" is the sound of a team getting safer. Give each pair or small group a different card and use the layering move Holstee's own facilitators favor: answer at the surface, go a layer deeper, then deeper still. In twenty minutes, colleagues who've worked side by side for years surface something real about each other — the foundation everything else in your program is built on. Reach for Kinship and Compassion cards to build belonging on new or cross-functional teams, and Integrity cards when you're doing values or trust work.
• Coaching, 1:1s & self-reflection. The same cards work one-on-one and solo. Use them to open a coaching conversation when a client is stuck, seed a manager's 1:1s so they move past status updates, or hand them out as journal prompts for a self-awareness or leadership module. Match the theme to the growth edge: Reflection and Gratitude for end-of-program integration or a year-in-review, Wellness for burnout and well-being conversations, Passion and Intention for career and purpose coaching. A single card a week makes a simple, repeatable reflection ritual between sessions.
• Working the Wildcard. The Wildcard cards are the facilitator's improvisation slot — a built-in prompt to ask your own question, tuned to the room in front of you. Use them to pose something tied directly to your session ("What's one thing you want to be different by the time we finish today?"), to let a participant author the question for their group, or as a debrief bridge that carries a general reflection straight into your specific content. When a discussion opens a door you didn't plan for, the Wildcard is your permission to walk through it.

One facilitation note: keep it invitational — always let people pass on a question, no explanation needed. Start with the lighter prompts and let depth build on its own. Paradoxically, giving people a clean way out is what makes them willing to go in.

52 illustrated symbols for metaphor-driven reflection and review

Ask a group "what did you take away today?" and you'll get the tidy, rational answer everyone thinks they're supposed to give. Hand them an image and ask "which one captures it?" — and you'll get the real thing.

That's the move this deck makes possible. It's sold as an affirmation deck, but its quieter superpower is the other side of every card: 52 hand-illustrated symbols drawn from nature and human creativity — a lighthouse, a phoenix, a compass, a vine, an hourglass, an ocean. Set the words aside and each image becomes a projective prompt: open enough that people read their own experience into it, specific enough to draw out a story they wouldn't have volunteered on their own.

Why it works

Metaphor does an end-run around the analytical brain. Ask a direct question and people reach for the answer they think is expected. Ask them to choose an image and explain it, and there's no "right" answer to perform — so what surfaces is honest, particular, and often surprising. The picture gives people a little distance to say the true thing — "this was the phoenix: we crashed in week two and had to rebuild" — and it hands the rest of the room a vivid shared reference. It's the same principle behind our Tarot for Training kit and the Climer Cards: the image carries what plain words won't.

What's in the box

• 52 illustrated symbol cards (plus tips cards; 56 total), playing-card size (2.5" × 3.5") — easy to shuffle, deal, and spread across a table
• Bold, modern, one-of-a-kind artwork on every card — no two alike
• A first-person affirmation on the reverse of each card, for an optional second layer (more on that below)
• Durable coated stock, sustainably made in the USA and recyclable at end of life

Put them to work

Opening check-ins. Spread the deck image-side up and have each person grab the card that matches how they're walking in. Quick, revealing, and a far better temperature read than "so, how's everyone doing?"

Learning reviews & debriefs. Close a session by asking each participant to pick the image that captures what they're taking away — or two cards for "where I started / where I am now." You'll hear insights a verbal go-round never surfaces.

Project retrospectives. Deal a card per team member and ask them to choose the metaphor for how the project actually felt. It's a fast, honest way to get real sentiment on the table without anyone having to be the first to say the hard part out loud.

Closing & commitment. End with "find the image for what you'll carry forward," and let people name a next step through the metaphor. The picture makes the intention stick.

The words on the back — your call. Because each card also carries an affirmation, you get a choice most image decks don't offer. Keep the deck image-side up for pure projective work, so no one's led by the text. Or use the words as a reveal: have people interpret the image first, then flip the card to see whether the affirmation echoes or challenges what they saw. In coaching or solo reflection, that second layer can be a gift; in a group debrief, you'll usually want it face-down. Either way, you decide how much the words are in the room.

One facilitation note: keep it invitational. Let people pass, and resist interpreting anyone's card for them — the meaning belongs to whoever chose it. Your only real job is to ask "what made you pick that one?" and give them room to answer.