WFH means Wellness From Home
One year later and here we are again. While offices have given a mandate to WFH, it’s just as relevant for all of us right now to be prioritizing Wellness From Home programs amongst our teams. But how can do this when we are all far apart?
Something we have all had to face in this pandemic is ourselves - the mental battle of every day life, in routines we never used to have when a disease like COVID-19 was not present. Not only are we up against a virus, we are up against ourselves. It is so easy to lose ourselves and feel like we’ve lost our energy, power, and sanity with everything that’s going on in our inner and outer world. And in times of fluctuating uncertainty, we need to become conscious of how and where we are using our energy.
My Soul Brief-Case is a self-help therapy card deck that is meant to help you deal with the challenges of everyday life, so you can learn to develop your skills in introspection while opening up your mind to possibility, change, and solutions. Developed in the Philippines over the pandemic, the sole intention of the cards are to help individuals and teams explore their challenges by using a card deck to help guide reflection.
How do the cards work?
My Soul Brief-Case has 50 cards with 4 different colors. Each color is meant to help guide you through a challenge or issue that you may be facing.
Green cards (10) are sentence prompts or questions that help you identify what’s going on
Yellow cards (20) help you unpack what’s truly in your heart
Red cards (10) are meant to help close the process and move you towards planning or action.
Blue cards (10) contain images that can be used flexibly and are best interpreted by the imagination.
The cards use sentence prompts and questions taken from therapeutic techniques such as Solution Focused Brief Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Choice Theory / Reality Therapy, and Gestalt Theory.
Why Use a Card Deck?
With a card deck, you can shuffle, re-arrange, and approach your challenge in more than 100 different ways. It allows you a flexibility to move items around, go back and forth from one color to the next, and allow you to explore your situation with the lens of non-judgment, scientific thinking.
The cards also work as a great team bonding activity to help members process what they are going through and how they can become responsible for their own well-being.
Wellness From Home for Teams
Studies show that more and more teams are finding it harder to collaborate given the working conditions and various time zones. We are also seeing that many struggle with organizing themselves, having strong boundaries between work and personal space, and having to keep up with company demands. My Soul Brief-Case is a useful tool for team leaders to encourage discussions around the challenges they are facing, or debriefing from difficult situations.
As leaders, many of us may feel like our skills are being stretched in this pandemic - with so many more hats to wear, we are now being asked to counsel and coach. And for those of us who struggle in this department, the cards were made for you!
Does this mean I don’t need to see a professional?
NO. These cards are not meant to replace therapy. In fact, if you are seeing a therapist, you can use these cards in between sessions to derive insight. You can also introduce these cards to your therapist and work on the insight together.
Self-help therapy cards are meant to help guide us on whatever we are going through wherever we might be. If we need further assistance in sorting through the problem, then we highly recommend that you visit our mental health directory on BreakYourStigma.com
Who can use these cards?
We recommend these cards to adults age 19 and above. For teenagers age 15 - 18, or below, it is highly recommended that these are used with adult supervision.
Anybody who wants to dig deep and seek insight into what they are facing can use these cards regularly. Whether you are facing challenges in identity, relationships at work, in the home, or romantically, the roles you play, and facing things beyond your control (like the pandemic!!), My Soul Brief-Case can be here to guide you.
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We are now open for ORDERS in the Philippines.
Click here to purchase your own deck for Php 1,200.00.
Cards are also available in Hong Kong, Europe, Australia, and USA. For international orders, PayPal link shall be sent via email with shipping fee to be calculated based on customer's address. (Global Shipping starts at Php 500.00/ USD 10).
For advocacy collaborations, send us a message through mysoulcollabs@gmail.com