Card packs

The Bears

Innovative Resources is proud to announce the release of a brand new edition of this iconic card set that has already found a home in the tool kits of thousands of human service workers.

Our new Bear cards have even more charm, express a greater range of emotions and lookeven more human! Perfect for social workers, [...]

Can-Do Dinosaurs

Ideal for: Early Childhood/Preschool Teachers, Counsellors, Therapists, Primary Teachers, Social Workers and Parents.
Its never too soon to begin nurturing life skills and building self-esteem. These engaging, easy-to-use skill-building cards are aimed at 3 to 7-year-olds. The bright, quirky cartoons will inspire great conversations and an I can attitude in little people. Minimal text builds literacy [...]

Cars R Us

Inspired by Choice Theory, Reality Therapy and incorporating strengths-based ideas, Cars R Us is a conversation-building tool ideal for exploring feelings, responses and articulating goals.
Perfect for anyone wanting to engage boys or men in important conversations. For those familiar with Glasser’s work this is a hands-on tool that includes all the [...]

Change by Design

By Kevin Vallence

Consultants, Leaders, Managers and Trainers, this one’s for you!
As autocratic and heirarchical management styles are challenged, how do staff participate meaningfully and usefully in new structures and step up in ways that are positive for both the organisation and individual?
Change by Design uses questions to challenge us to [...]

Deep Speak

By Geoff Barker and Michelle Lane Jenner
Anyone who spends time with young people can use Deep Speak to build rich conversations about some of life’s big questions–and some of the little quirky ones as well. This is an engaging and thought-provoking resource for educators, mental health workers, chaplains, youth workers and [...]

Everyday Goddess

If you work with women here is a resource designed specifically to create conversations that will engage, empower, encourage them. Each of the 36 cards contain a simple statement accompanied by a reproduction of a painting by internationally acclaimed artist, Katharina Rapp.
With a delicious and slightly wicked sense of humor these [...]

Age of Adventure

Generate meaningful, therapeutic conversations with older clients or family members.
Age of Adventure is a photograpy-based set of cards depicting adventurous older Australians living their lives to the full. It is versatile and clever enough to operate as a speech therapy tool, a conversation prompt, a challenge to sterotyping of older community [...]

Growing Well

Mental Health Professionals, Therapists, Psychologists and Social Workers: here is a mental health monitoring tool suitable for use with all ages.
Growing Well cards are built around key statements that research has shown are important indicators of mental health and balance. Accompanying each statement is a ’scale’ using simple illustrations of [...]

Inside Out

…a journalling kit.
By Deb Western
Creative writing teachers, counsellors, educators and personal journal keepers: here is a wonderful tool for creative self-development and self-expression.
A wide range of topics, comments, thought-provoking ideas and illustrations are suitable for application across a wide range of journalling styles.
Published by Innovative Resources 2003, 32 laminated, full-colour [...]

Koala Company

Need some really good company? Meet Australia’s favourite marsupial in every kind of mood.
A great bunch of 50 cartoon koala characters for talking about feelings. Each circle-shaped card brings us up close and personal with a very expressive koala face. Which koala are you today? The mad, glad or just plain [...]

Mates Traits

Attention teachers, chaplains, social welfare coordinators and anyone wanting to build insight into the vital role friendship plays in the maintenance of good mental health.
This engaging resource is ideal for: identifying and developing positive social skills; naming the characteristics of real friendship; building positive communication and celebrating individuality and [...]

My Feelings

Created specifically for Child Psychologists, Counsellors, School Welfare Officers, Social Workers, CASA staff and International Social Workers, My Feelings is a set of cards for assisting children to identify, talk about and understand the importance of emotions and body signals in building protective behaviours.
Delightful watercolour illustrations are the main aspect [...]

Name the Frame

By Wayne McCashen
Human Resources Managers, Community Leaders, Social Workers, Team Leaders: here is a unique kit of cards for inspiring exploration of the insidious nature of prejudice; identifying and naming the strengths and weaknesses of an organisation (or team) and insight about socially-just decision-making.
Published by Innovative Resources 2001, 32 full-colour, [...]

Note to Self

By Gena McLean
Many of us surround ourselves with sticky notes, scraps of paper, or lists of things we want to remind ourselves to do on a day-to-day basis. Note to Self is a set of 24 stunning cards created by local author, Gena McLean, and designed by Castlemaine artist, Robyn Spicer. [...]

Optimism Boosters

Attention Psychologists, Social Workers, Counsellors and Educators. Each of the 30 cards in this elegant little set creates a window into change, new possibilities and fresh ways of thinking. Key questions focus on goals, possibilities or strategies.
Published by Innovative Resources 2004. Author: Selina Byrne, Designer: Tim Lane 30 laminated, full-colour [...]

Our Scrapbook of Strengths

By Russell Deal & Simone Silberberg
Our Scrapbook of Strengths can be used with families, community groups, work teams, support groups, school children, and pretty much any other gathering of people.
It provides an opportunity to acknowledge and recognise the existing strengths and to identify ways in which these strengths can contribute to [...]

Picture This

Looking for inspiring, evocative, high – quality, text – free images?
These 75 original, diverse and eclectic photographs offer opportunities for people of all ages to reflect on their experiences. Here is a powerful conversation – stimulant for oiling the juice of imagination, memory and emotions.
Some of these full – [...]

Reflexions

Here is a resource for educators, youth workers, mental health professionals, social workers, juvenile justice counsellors and anyone involved with young people.
Reflexions is a set of cards that use contemporary street and techno style photo collage and graphics to deepen conversations on the issues that concern young people. A single [...]

Respect and Justice Cards

If you are serious about working towards a more just society here is a set of cards to inspire discussion and debate.
Topics and questions address personal and corporate responsibility in the face of constraint, discrimination and disadvantage. They also challenge us to create conditions that build hope, respect and fairness.
Published by [...]

Shadows and Deeper Shadows

Psychologists, social workers, counsellors and adult educators will find this powerful set of watercolour images can invite their clients or students to reflect on their experiences and explore the meaning of ’shadows’ in their lives.
This resource acknowledges that pain and suffering (such as grief, loneliness, depression, loss and violence) often [...]

Signposts

Chaplains, Psychologists, Social Workers, Counsellors: how do you build conversations about meaning? Spirituality? Connectedness? Transformation?
Here is a set of cards based on original photographs that will inspire exploration of the importance of purpose and belonging in our everyday lives. This tool is not based on a particular theology or philosophy [...]

Sometimes Magic

For Teachers, Tutors, Mentors and Trainers. Sometimes Magic is a set of 32 thought-provoking cards designed to explore the fascinating variety of ways individuals learn. Sometimes, magic does happen when we understand what works for us and can articulate our needs more clearly.
Published by Innovative Resources 2001. 32 laminated, full-colour cards, [...]

Stones… have feelings too!

Describing feelings is at the heart of emotional literacy and therapeutic work.
Meet 52 quirky, engaging, happy, sad, afraid, shy, joyful and just plain outrageous “stone” characters – characters who wear their feelings all over their not-so-stony faces. On the back of each card are three possible words to help build a [...]

Storycatching

Attention teachers, counsellors, youth workers and creative writing coordinators.
Here are 80 full-colour storytelling prompts for people of all ages. From classrooms to discussion groups; a family game to a therapeutic tool. Perfect for anyone who works with people who have a story to tell. Whatever the application, Storycatching provides opportunities [...]

Strength Cards

Inspiring. Self-esteem boosting. Life-changing.
Used by thousands of family workers, teachers, counsellors, trainers and parents worldwide, welcome to a set of cards using both pictures and text to inspire insight and transformation. Grounded in the Strengths model these cards are capable of generating conversations about the hard stuff as well as [...]

Strength Cards for Kids

Psychologists, social workers, teachers, student welfare coordinators, chaplains and counsellors: here is a product perfect for identifying, naming and celebrating inherent strengths, qualities and abilities. Using vibrant illustration and gentle humour, this clever but simple card set is a strengths-based resource designed specifically for primary school aged children with the intention of nurturing emotional intelligence [...]

Strengths in Teams

Most of us spend a great deal of our lives being part of one team or another: at school, in the community, in clubs, in sport and at work.
‘Strengths in Teams’ is a set of 30 lavishly illustrated, full-colour cards depicting a zany and delightfully whacky circus. Except this circus looks very [...]

Symbols

Symbols is a box of 100 evocative images that work as poems for the soul.
A symbol is a metaphor–something that means something else. Metaphors and symbols work as short cuts–cosmic ‘worm holes’ to understanding and feelings. Symbols is a set of simple, free-hand line drawings of everyday objects that can suggest [...]

Talking Up Our Strengths

Talking Up Our Strengths is a set of 22 stunning photomontage cards that celebrate the strengths and resilience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
As well as being a visual feast, Talking Up Our Strengths is a catalyst for inspiring conversations and storytelling in schools, communities, groups, social work settings, board [...]

Views from the Verandah

Ideal for career and relationship counsellors, social workers, educators and anyone who works with people considering new directions.
The serious task of identifying values, setting goals and planning for the future can be enriched with these engaging, thought-provoking cards. Here is an opportunity to build positive, practical conversations about priorities and [...]

What Works?

If you were searching for ways to describe the possible strengths of any organisation, what would you notice?
Firstly, that organisations vary tremendously in a wide variety of ways! And at the same time, the most successful, creative and dynamic of them also have many strengths in common. This conversation-building card set [...]

Wonderful You

Teachers, parents, kids’ clubs: here is a set of 26 colourful, alphabet-based cards providing creative and fun ways of saying, ‘Well done!’ to the children you live or work with.
Author: Mundy Fox. Published by Innovative Resources 2005. 26 Full-colour, laminated cards 160mm x 160mm with 28-page booklet presented in a full-colour [...]

Words

Educators, Counsellors, Psychologists, Trainers and Social Workers–here are 100 cards, each featuring a single word.
They are designed to open up conversations about meaning, significance, thoughts, feelings and experiences. Some speak of difficulty and challenge; some speak of possibilities and dreams.
Published by Innovative Resources 2007. Booklet authors: Linda Espie & Russell [...]