Discover the Selves universe
Working with the Selves cards is a process of inner team-building designed to align your strengths.
The Selves cards highlight the variety of inner voices familiar to all of us, influencing our behavior and relationships.
With the help of the cards, you can identify the defining, dominant internal voices as well as the shy, silent ones, and together with your client, explore their dialogues and conflicts.
All of this invites you on an exciting adventure and provides deeper levels of guidance, support and insight in your work as a coach, trainer, psychologist, mentor or other development professional.
Individual and group exercises
With three individual and four group exercise recommendations, the Selves basic package helps you achieve a breakthrough with your clients during coaching processes and trainings.
Selves is a tool for coaches, trainers, psychologists, and professionals dealing with personal and organizational development. By using the cards, you can help your clients achieve their goals in a profound and simultaneously playful way.
What does the basic Selves package include?
The Selves card deck
54 artistically designed cards with unique characters that were born at the intersections of the enneagram and spiral dynamics systems.
The icons on the cards indicate the enneagram type of the given character, and the color codes indicate the spiral dynamic level.
Handbook
A 200-page handbook containing a guide to using the cards with a detailed description of individual and group exercises, a summary of the methodological background, a description of each card, and related coaching questions for further in-depth exploration.
Card pouch and bag
A unique hand-crafted pouch and bag made in Hungary, designed for frequent use, sustainability and durability, in which you can take the cards and the manual with you everywhere – together or separately.
Community membership
Exclusive membership of the Selves cards international professional community. Every month, you will receive valuable inspirations and ideas for using the cards. You are also invited to share your experience and ideas with members of the community.
Unique methodology
What makes Selves special?
Each character of the Selves card deck was born at the intersection of two key systems focusing on human development and fulfillment:
- the enneagram describes and analyzes nine personality types of human nature,
- and spiral dynamics, a developmental model of the human psyche, values and worldviews
Selves combines these two systems in a unique and innovative way, and put them at the service of your own professional or personal development work.
Frequently asked questions
We have collected the 5 most common questions asked by coaches, trainers and mental health professionals about the cards:
The Selves cards highlight the variety of inner voices familiar to all of us, that influence our daily behavior and relationships. With the help of the cards, in the context of individual or group processes, you can identify the defining voices and explore the dialogues that the various internal voices have with each other. This is not only crucial for personal and professional development, but it can also help teams to uncover conflicts and get to know each other more deeply.
The session time with Selves cards can vary, depending on the depth and intensity of the process. In general, it is worth taking 30-60 minutes for a session.
You can use the Selves cards as often as you want, depending on the process in which you consider it beneficial. Using the Selves cards is particularly effective in detecting inner conflicts, dilemmas and identifying inner resources.
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During the use of Selves cards participants’ self-awareness deepens, their empathy for themselves and their relationships strengthens, they improve their communication, and make decisions easier.
Those who have already tried it
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"The Selves cards are an excellent coaching tool for individual sessions. They help the client to see their current challenge from a different perspective. It propels one from their current stagnation towards their solutions and goals. It is also great for awareness-raising and self-reflection in self-coaching. The colorful, intriguing illustrations make the cards interesting and invite a deeper exploration."
Ágnes Mogyoróssy
Tünde Zakor
"The Selves cards make the coaching work a far richer, more expansive journey for both coach and client. The basic card package itself can be used in a very intuitive way, both for the coach and the client. My clients are happy to immerse themselves in the wonderful, meticulously structured visual world, discovering new and new meanings. The inner anxiety, the visual projection of conflicts and their actors is a special value for them. Always a big "Aha!" experience is the spatial location of the cards/characters, their relation to each other, and the possibilities that can be revealed by the blindly drawn character. very special depths and connections are revealed by the complex systems of the Enneagram and spiral dynamics."
"I consider it my profession to support young people, especially teenage students, not only in terms of their performance but also in terms of their well-being. That is why I am constantly looking for tools that help facilitate various individual and group sessions with professionally based guidelines, and at the same time give them enough freedom during use. In the Selves cards, I found a tool that gives something new every time it is used, adds a valuable layer to our processes. It is great to see that the exciting world of cards captivates even those who otherwise find it difficult to talk. It's like the characters always give us an actual advocate, a friend, on whose behalf we can hear voices that we otherwise often silence. I strongly recommend everyone to use this wonderfully drawn, carefully crafted, and useful tool!"
Viktória Vígh
Environmental and social responsibility
It is important to me to produce Selves tools in a green and socially responsible way, says Réka, the creator of the cards.
Every single element of the Selves basic package was produced locally in Hungary.
The manual was made with carbon-neutral technology, environmentally friendly paint, and is printed on FSC-certified paper.
The card pouches were designed and hand-crafted by Emese Dömösi.
With Selves, our mission is not only to support personal and professional development, but we also strive to support local, sustainable businesses and eco-friendly initiatives.
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