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The School of Life

 

Know Yourself

€14.50

Know Yourself Prompt Cards

60 prompt cards designed to help lead you through the important task of knowing yourself a little better in life.

It can be hard to understand who we really are: what we want, how we feel and why we react as we do. This lack of self-knowledge can lead us into unhappy relationships, unsatisfactory jobs, and unsustainable spending habits. No wonder Socrates summed up all the counsel of philosophy in just two words: 'Know Yourself'.

These Know Yourself Prompt Cards are designed to assist us in a journey of self-knowledge. They present us with a range of ideas and questions that encourage self-reflection, allowing us to become a little more aware of what we really need and what our priorities and potential might be. Each card carries an exercise on one side and a piece of analysis on the reverse to help you gain insight and clarity on that ever elusive subject: yourself.

60 cards in box | 104mm x 73mm x 36mm.

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The Therapy Game

€27.50

The Therapy Game

Learn to Talk. Learn to Listen.

When we end up in a really good conversation with a friend, we sometimes pay them a slightly unusual but sincere compliment: we say that chatting to them feels like talking to a good therapist.

What we tend to mean is that they’re giving us space to talk, they’re not interrupting us or pushing their own advice aggressively forward: they’re properly listening.

This game cannot turn us into real therapists (that would take years of training). But like many good games (ones about flying or being a detective for example), it gives us a chance to try out, entertainingly but safely, one of the most interesting sides of a great profession. The Therapy Game offers us a rare opportunity to listen and speak to one another at truly fulfilling length and depth.

The cards cover five categories:

- Work
- Sex
- Relationships
- Anxiety
- Self

Questions cover topics such as:

- Who do you need to impress?
- What did you learn about relationships from your parents?
- If you were a friend of yours, what would you tell yourself about the challenges you face?
- Around what features of your character does your self-hatred focus?

Contains adult content.

100 cards with timer | 100 x 90 x 60mm | Instruction booklet included View full product details
 

Dating Cards

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A set of 52 question cards to spark insightful and playful encounters.

Great dates are made up of great conversations: ones where we find out more about one another, discover what makes us both tick, share some of what we like and reveal how we see the world. This is a collection of cards that can be used on a date to help provoke the best kinds of discussion.

This pack includes 52 cards, each one posing an intriguing question or setting a challenge, designed to provoke, entertain and stimulate.

As a bonus, the cards are graded according to how probing they are (Easy, Medium and Hard) so that you can playfully match the discussion with the flow of an evening.

52 question cards with box | 90 x 65 x 20mm | instructions included View full product details

 

The Family Game

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The Family Game

Laugh & Reconnect With Those Who Matter Most

The idea of family lies close to the meaning of life, but in practice, families do not always come together, or chat about what matters, or laugh as much or as often as they should. Everyone gets too busy, or it can feel hard to get into certain topics – and without anyone meaning to, occasions keep slipping by. The Family Game is the solution; this is a game expressly designed to help family gatherings live up to our highest hopes. It consists of a host of questions (chosen randomly with a dice) that kick-start the best sorts of conversations: ones in which we reconnect, say things we always meant to, laugh warmly together – and remember why family counts.

The cards cover five categories:

- Gentle Teasing
- Gratitude
- Self
- Memories
- Regrets

Questions cover topics such as:

- What would the movie of your family be called?
- To whom have you been a bit too moody?
- How would you like to evolve?
- What was your favourite time of day when you were little?
- If you could be forgiven for something, what would it be?

100 playing cards with dice | 100 x 90 x 60mm | Instruction card included | Suitable for ages 12 + View full product details
 

Table Talk Card Game

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40 placecards with 80 questions for sparking meaningful and revealing conversations around the table.

A meal with friends is only ever as good as the questions we ask one another. Too often, we fall back on polite but not so inspired staples: 'Have you got anything special planned for the weekend?' 'What do you do?', and so on.

But there are better kinds of questions - questions that work like magic keys that open up our hearts, draw out our memories and prompt our latent reserves of generosity, fun and interest.

This pack collects 80 of these sorts of questions to ensure a meal together can be at once meaningful, entertaining and touching. Laid out on placecards, the questions gently and charmingly pull our fellow diners towards the sort of topics that matter most to our deeper selves - and help us get the most out of one another.

Instructions:

Use 1 card per place setting.
Fold each card in half and add your guest's name. Now you can select who sits next to whom.
Each card has 2 questions. Prompt your guests to use them over the meal as a way to get to know their neighbours and have more interesting and meaningful conversations.

Questions Include:

  • What do other people not understand about you?
  • What do you worry about in the middle of the night?
  • Which three adjectives capture important things about you?
  • When you feel upset, how - ideally - would you like to be comforted?
  • What's the best way to break up a relationship?
  • If you were braver, what would you be doing with your life?
  • In what ways is your family especially odd?
  • What have your learnt about yourself in the past year?
  • What do you look for in a very close friend?
  • What kind of character trait that you don't possess do you find attractive in others?

40x double sided placecards | 400gsm card | 102 x 92 x 27mm View full product details
 

Untranslatable Words

€20.00

Untranslatable Words Card Set

A set of 20 cards which explain the meaning behind untranslatable words from around the world.

We’re hugely dependent on language to express how we really feel, and yet words often feel curiously vague or frustratingly inaccurate. There are lots of moods, needs and feelings that our own language has not yet properly pinned down. The perfect word - even if it comes from abroad - helps us explain ourselves to other people, and its existence quietly reassures us (and everyone else) that a state of mind is not really rare, just rarely spoken of.

This set of cards define some of our favourite words from the world's languages and married them up with complementary images to create cards that bring some of our most important feelings into focus. We’ve created them to prompt greater reflection about the nature of language and the emotions.

Example Cards

DUENDE (Spanish): A heightened sense of emotion created by a moving piece of art.

FORELSKET (Norwegian): The euphoric feeling at the beginning of love. We can’t believe someone so perfect has wandered into our lives. They enhance and complete us. We might report: ‘I was overpowered by forelsket as our fingers interlaced…’

YŪGEN (Japanese): Gives a name to a mood in which one feels that the universe as a whole possesses a mysterious and elusive beauty. Moonlight, snow on distant mountains, birds flying very high in the evening sky, and watching the sun rise over the ocean all feed this sensibility.

20 cards in box | 159mm x 115mm x 20mm. View full product details

 

Dankbarkeit / Gratitude Cards

€20.00

A set of 60 cards to remind us of the many reasons we have to be thankful.

We are experts at focusing on what is missing from our lives. Our dissatisfaction often serves us well; it keeps us from complacency and boredom. But we are also dragged down by a pernicious inability to stop, take stock and recognise what isn't imperfect and appalling.

We are experts at focusing on what is missing from our lives. Our dissatisfaction often serves us well; it keeps us from complacency and boredom. But we are also dragged down by a pernicious inability to stop, take stock and recognize what isn't imperfect and appalling.

In our haste to secure the future, we omit to notice what is already very good. This pack of cards is designed to help us pause in our striving and, for a few moments, take on board some of what we have to be grateful for - a consoling, inspiring corrective to the lessons in cynicism and sourness that the world teaches every day.

Example cards:

  • There were no outright catastrophes today.
  • Others forget the stupid things we’ve done faster than we do.
  • We can reinvent ourselves – a bit.
  • Other people are usually shyer, sweeter and kinder than we’d anticipated.
  • We have managed to learn a few things down the years.
  • We don’t have to take ourselves seriously.
  • Many of the people we love are still alive.
  • We could disappear for a bit.
  • Many of the world’s most interesting people have written down their thoughts.


Content: 60 cards in box
Language: German

Language: English
Dimensions: 10x8x2 cm

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Everyday Adventures Card Game

€17.50

Re-Discover Wonder and Excitement

As grown-ups, one of our deepest urges is for life to be more adventurous: a little more excitement, novelty, interest and passion. Unfortunately, many adventures, especially the ‘big’ kinds, are too expensive, threaten to upturn everything and can upset those who rely on us. What we therefore badly need is access to smaller, more pocket-sized adventures.

We call these ‘Everyday Adventures’ – from something tiny like eating an unfamiliar fruit from the market to rereading your favourite book to asking a parent what they were like as a teenager. This is a suggestion box to spark the imagination, revive the spirit and motivate us towards the slightly more adventurous lives we long for.

Adventures include:

• Write down five questions you wish someone else would ask you; ask them of someone else.

• Set your alarm before sunrise and go for a walk.

• Complete the sentence: ‘If I wasn’t afraid of failure, I would…’ Tell a friend your answer.

• Make something nice out of beetroot.

60 cards containing prompts and suggestions | 71.5 x 102 x 34 mm

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