A few months ago I posted a deck of cards pattern to get unstuck from a disempowering pattern of thinking.
Here’s another one that I’ve learned from Danie Beaulieu.
Context of use: Client is struggling with a personal issue and needs to access resources to overcome it.
Timing: No specific timing.
Equipment needed: Deck of cards and a black felt tip marker
Pattern:
- Ask your client: “Remember a time when you felt successful in an area of your life.”
- Ask your client: “Tell me about one of your qualities that you used to create that success for yourself.”
- Listen to the client’s answer. Let’s suppose your client says: “Courage”.
- Open your deck of cards in front of the client.
- Ask your client: “Did you use an ace, a king, a queen or a jack of courage to achieve success in that situation?”
- Pick your client’s answer out of the deck and write “COURAGE” in capital, bold letters on the card.
- Go back to step 2 and repeat steps 2 to 6 for all the qualities that came into play in that situation.
- Once your client has selected at least five strong cards, present them to your client one by one.
- Tell your client: “Look how powerful this hand of cards is. All you have to do now is play it strategically in the situation you’re facing. Take some time to feel the power of your hand.”
- Give the cards to the client to take home and serve as a reminder of his/her resources.
The cards then serve as powerful anchors that assist the client to access his/her resources. In addition, they serve as references for powerful identity beliefs such as: “I am powerful and can do anything I choose.”
Use it and let us know what happened in the comments.
