Set of decks of metaphorical cards “Family Circle”

Author of the idea and illustrator: Svetlana Rudenko, candidate of psychological sciences, clinical psychologist, expert, gaming practitioner.
The set of “Family Circle” decks includes:

• MAK deck (58 hand-drawn cards with instructions);
• Deck of phrases from the context (50 text cards);
• The number of cards in a set of 2 decks is 108 pcs. (63.5×89 mm, 300 g/m²).
  Each deck is packed in a separate cardboard box. MAC with instructions are additionally wrapped in shrink film.
  

The “Family Circle” deck set is intended for psychologists and psychotherapists of all possible specializations! After all, the importance of the family context in helping practice can hardly be overestimated.
An effective tool for professionals! It will help to delicately explore mutual influences within the family. Based on the clues of the unconscious, find the client’s resources and plan specific steps to achieve results.
It is also suitable for beginners, on its basis it is easy to set the outline of any consultation and clearly see the possibilities of getting out of current situations.
Cards allow you to reveal and solve the following problems:

• Marital conflicts
• Tense parent-child relationships
• Failure of older children to accept younger ones
• Perinatal choice
• Life in a situation where one of the family members is ill
• Chronic loneliness of older people
• Anxiety, depression
• Suicidal tendencies
• Sexual anomalies
• Addictions and codependencies
• Negative money scenarios, etc.

The main goal of working with the “Family Circle” deck set is to identify the current mental state of the individual as a unit of the family system and provide assistance on this basis in achieving internal harmony, and therefore stabilization and development of the family. Includes 11 techniques that are applicable both in individual and group work.
Family Casket Technique
Purpose: to provide support in the experience of grief of loss.
1. Blindly select 3 cards.
2. Turn them over so that their plot sides are facing up. The first will symbolize life in the past. The second is in the present. The third is in the future.
3. Based on the cards, make up stories about each stage.
4. Select a card openly that will reflect the changes that have occurred in your life. What is shown in the picture? What changes do these events bring to your way of life?
5. Describe the emotions that permeate the image. Which states are obvious to everyone, and which are hidden by cartoon characters? Are the experiences that the characters experience close to you?
6. Select 5 cards at random.
7. Place one in the center directly in front of you, the rest around at different distances. The central card will represent you. Surrounding drawn scenes – your relatives, friends, colleagues and other people (neighbors, acquaintances).
8. After the cards have been designated, turn them over. Taking into account the distance of the cards in relation to yours, determine how connections with people around you will now change. Who can become closer to you, who risks moving away. How can key roles and responsibilities be redistributed?
9. What changes would be desirable? Move the cards accordingly.
10. Open up, choose a card that will symbolize you today, at this stage of life. Place it on a blank sheet of paper.
11. On the left and right, draw the things that have been passed down in your family from generation to generation. This could be orders, watches, jewelry, etc. Under each picture, write who they belonged to.
12. Determine what power of the first owners these relics carry? Label the listed qualities.
13. Connect the pictures and your map with green lines. The result was a kind of network. This is the support that your ancestors invisibly provide to you. They give you their best qualities for perseverance in the current situation.
14. On top, draw the thing that you associate with the departed person. What strength and best qualities does it carry within itself? Label them.
15. Connect this thing and your card with a red line. This will be a symbol of accepting the “treasures” of a dear person. It will give you a feeling of connection on a subtle level, gives you the strength to move on, the opportunity to enter into new emotionally rich relationships.