The Weather Inside Me

About the deck

A deck about the weather inside: what is going on within when the day outside is an ordinary one.

The deck holds 256 metaphorical associative cards. A hundred and twenty-eight of them are photographs of weather and climate states that carry a person’s feelings and sensations in particular situations.

The other 128 cards hold word descriptions of states: 64 pleasant and 64 heavy. This lets you join the image to the precise name, and it is exactly where those two meet that understanding happens.

The deck works with the inner state: it diagnoses how things feel in a particular situation and beside particular people, and then helps change the reaction to one that fits better and gives resource.

Weather is a convenient metaphor because it carries no judgement. It is hard for a person to admit that they are in despair, but easy to choose a card with a storm and talk about it.

The deck can be used as a deep diagnostic, clarifying, deepening, resourcing and supporting tool in counseling, therapy and psychological transformation games. It works within the series and on its own.

With “The Weather Inside Me” deck you can

• diagnose a person’s current state
• understand the reasons a particular emotion arises
• see which event or person provokes this state
• understand your feelings more deeply
• see yourself as in a mirror and acknowledge your true reaction
• find the resource for change inside the image itself
• replace an unwanted state with an acceptable one
• notice how the weather changes through the day and because of what
• understand how to change your dealings with people by changing your state
• learn to influence your state instead of enduring it

Questions to ask the deck

Work starts from these questions. Choose one, the one that speaks to you more strongly than the rest, and work with it, because only one state is opened up well in a single session.

1. What am I feeling right now?
2. What do I feel beside this person?
3. What do I feel when I end up in this situation?
4. What will I feel once the question is settled?
5. How do I correct my state?
6. Which state would suit me here?
7. What should I change to make it easier?
8. Which three heavy states do I need to remove?
9. Which three good states should I grow first?
10. What is my weather at work and what is it at home?
11. What changes my weather the fastest?
12. Which weather would be the very best for me?

The whole series

“Inner World” is 10 decks that work as a single system: the weather inside, states, boundaries, needs, spaces, relationships, resource and motivation, supports, opportunities and freedom.

See the whole series →