Resource and Motivation

About the deck

A deck about where to find strength and what will remind you of it at the right moment.

The deck holds 254 metaphorical associative cards. A hundred and twenty-eight photographs show resources from life, nature, work and everyday things: everything that gives support and inspiration.

The remaining cards are strips with motivating phrases: what is worth paying attention to, what the time has come to do, and what will help you move further.

The task of the deck is to give inspiration and bring back a forgotten source of strength, and to nudge you toward the action you keep putting off.

The strength of the deck is in the pairing: the image gives the state and the phrase turns it into a decision. Separately they work more weakly than together.

The deck can be used as a resourcing, deepening, transformational and supporting tool in counseling, therapy, training and psychological transformation games.

With the “Resource and Motivation” deck you can

• find a source of resource a person does not notice
• get support through a hard stretch
• understand what to pay attention to in life and in the question at hand
• bring back a forgotten activity or state that gives strength
• get the motivation for an action long put off
• see where the energy lies when it is not obvious at once
• join the state and the decision in one step
• understand what exactly the time has come to do
• gather a personal set of sources of strength
• stop waiting for inspiration and learn to create 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 resource is taken in well in a single session.

1. Which resource do I need right now?
2. What will inspire me to act?
3. Where do I find the strength for this task?
4. What have I forgotten that used to fill me?
5. What is it time for me to do?
6. What should I pay attention to in my situation?
7. What will help me move further?
8. Which thought will support me in a hard moment?
9. What keeps me from starting?
10. What gives me strength the fastest?
11. Which resource lies right beside me?
12. What will become my support over the coming month?

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 →