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Understanding and identifying our strengths can be transformational for anyone. It can build resilience, confidence, and hope in times of struggle.
Strengths Cards® is a beloved resource and hands-on conversation-building tool for people of any age. This resource includes 54 beautifully illustrated cards showing playful animals in various emotional states. Interacting with the cards and characters encourages users to find solutions, achieve goals, enhance self-esteem and build strength.
These cards are inspiring, self-esteem boosting; in fact, for many people they've been life-changing which is why the cards are used by thousands of family workers, teachers, counsellors, trainers and parents world-wide. The gentle humour and simplicity of the Strengths Cards® finds them used for a whole range of purposes that include helping people identify their strengths and skills, goal setting, exploring values, ice-breaking and even as a prompt for discussion during job interviews. Grounded in strengths-based theory, these cards are capable of opening up conversations about the hard stuff in life as well as nurturing new ways of thinking about life's possibilities.
We all have strengths that we use every day to make decisions and solve problems. However, in some situations, it is easy for us to forget what our strengths are and solutions can become harder to find. Strengths Cards® remind each of us of the strengths that we can use or develop to deal with those situations and bring about positive change.
Easy to use and flexible, these cards are ideal for multiple activities and environments. Along with the cards, a 38 page booklet is provided to offer helpful suggestions on how to spark life-changing conversations about our strengths.
Grounded in strengths-based theory, Strength Cards® can open up conversations about the hard stuff in life and nurture new ways of thinking about life’s possibilities.
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Each card pack comes with free access to an online toolbox of extras. The Digital Toolbox includes:
54 laminated, full-colour cards, 150 x 120mm
41-page booklet with text by Russell Deal
polypropylene box.
"I love the Strength Cards and often use them in incredibly simple ways. In psychotherapy sessions I ask a client to pull out from the pack any strengths they recognise in themselves—there's always far more than they imagine. We then spread them out over the floor and I ask them ‘How often do you think of yourself in this way?’ The answer is often 'never', with a certain amount of amazement. It is always an extremely powerful exercise. Afterwards, I give them an A4 poster and a credit card sized laminated copy of the list of strengths they have identified so they can carry always them and celebrate these strengths.
In couple therapy, I ask couples to choose from the pack five or so strengths of their relationship. These become the resources that they can draw upon to strengthen their union. I find this helps to refocus couples on the positive aspects of their relationship and primes them for interacting in strengths-based ways."
- Tiffany Rochester, Clinical Psychologist read the full review
"I frequently use the Strength Cards as a means of engaging with the child at a first session. The simple exercise of asking the child to select four or five cards out of the pack that say something special about them (and the ensuing discussion) can elicit a lot of information about what is important to them; their interests, skills, hobbies and so on. This information can be used later to develop interventions (comfort strategies, for example) when the sad feelings overwhelm them."
- Anne Vranisan, Agency Coordinator, Reach Out for Kids Foundation
"When I first saw the Strength Cards, I realised how versatile and useful they could be in assessment work, and I've been using the cards now for at least six years in foster and adoption assessments.
I use them when assessing self-esteem in marital partners, and in gauging the degree of reciprocity in appreciating and in valuing each other's strengths. I also use the cards for partners to talk about their own and the other's 'areas that need to be strengthened', which then can be cross referenced against previous answers on conflict resolution to test for consistency.
Inevitably, the children in the family spy the cards and enjoy talking about their own strengths, which has encouraged me to leave the cards with some families, in between interviews, for their own use."
- Bavali Hill, Social Work Consultant
