Questions & Answers

About the deck

The deck asks a person the questions they would never ask themselves, and gives answers they had not considered.

The deck holds 128 metaphorical associative cards: 64 questions and 64 answers, separated by color, so they are easy to use together or apart.

The strength of this deck is that the question comes from outside. Someone who has been turning a situation over in their head asks themselves the same thing in circles and gets the same answers back; a card breaks that circle and puts the question from a place the mind does not go on its own.

The half with answers works as a mirror: it does not predict the future, it shows which thought was already living inside and waiting to be said out loud.

The deck works as a predictive, diagnostic, deepening, resource and supporting tool in counseling, coaching and psychological transformation games.

What you can do with the “Questions & Answers” deck

• think about your situation more deeply and step out of the usual loop of reasoning
• hear from outside the questions a person could not put to themselves
• find an answer where it seemed there was none
• test a decision already made, before it turns into action
• see what an emotion or a rush had closed off in the situation
• measure the chosen path against what the person actually wants
• find the question you want to walk away from — that is the one that works
• separate your real doubts from other people’s voices and expectations
• see which question a person has been answering for years, while life is already asking something else
• phrase your own question more precisely — and a precise question almost always contains the answer

Questions to ask the deck

These are the questions the work starts from. Choose one — the one that resonates most strongly — and stay with it, because a single session opens up one question well and no more.

1. What do I need to understand in this situation?
2. What should I pay attention to first?
3. What am I not seeing in my question?
4. Am I moving in the right direction?
5. What will bring me to my goal?
6. Where do I need to start acting?
7. What will be my hint and my resource?
8. Where might I be mistaken?
9. Which theme do I need to work through?
10. Which insight will take me to a new level?
11. Which question have I been answering for years, though it no longer matters?
12. What am I afraid to ask myself?

The whole series

“Order in the Mind” is 10 decks that work as a single system, from actions and resources to beliefs, fears and life scripts.

See the whole series →