Speak Life Cards

Use With: Teens, Adults, Parents, Couples, Families

Setting: Individual or group sessions

Purpose: Encourage reflection on messages that influence personal growth and resilience.

How They’re Used: Clients choose phrases that resonate with their experience and explore the deeper meaning in the context of their lives.

Benefits: Helps clients process life’s struggles through memorable and thought-provoking language, promotes new ways of thinking, and opens space for encouragement, hope, and honest dialogue.

Individual Use

Daily Draw – Client selects one card at the start of session and reflects on how it connects to their current life circumstances.

Journaling Prompt – Assign one card as a journaling reflection between sessions.
Reframe Practice – Use a card to help client reframe a negative thought into a more empowering perspective. Life Story Connection – Have client choose a card and share a story from their life that illustrates its truth. Challenge Setting – Pick a card and create a small, practical challenge related to its theme for the week. Strengths Exploration – Have client choose a card that reflects a strength they already embody. Perspective Shift – Ask client to pick a card they initially resist and explore why.
Decision-Making Aid – Use cards to help weigh choices: “Which card feels aligned with my next step?”

Group Use

Opening Circle – Each group member draws a card and shares what it means to them.

Closing Reflection – Use cards at the end of group to summarize a takeaway or encouragement.

Pass the Card – One member picks a card for another, explaining why they think it fits.

Group Journaling – Everyone writes for 5 minutes about the same card, then shares insights.

Silent Reflection Walk – Participants each take a card and walk silently outdoors, reflecting, then regroup to discuss.

Seasons of Change – Place several cards in the middle and have members choose the one that resonates most with their current season.