Conversation-starter playing cards to get young people thinking and talking about their mental and emotional wellbeing: recognising, communicating, responding to and reflecting on emotions.

It is so important to encourage young people to talk about their mental health but sometimes it can be hard to know what to ask or how to bring it up. We’ve designed these cards to help get those conversations started!
Each of the four card suits explores a different element of emotional wellbeing:

• Recognising emotions
• Communicating emotions
• Responding to emotions
• Reflecting on emotions
  

Some questions are quite light-hearted, others offer the chance to go a bit deeper. This resource is ideal for all kinds of relational youth work, from mentoring to group work, from school to church settings. They probably work best with you people aged 11-16.

Our new Talking About Emotions playing cards are inspired by an older pack of the same name. Those original cards were one of our most popular resources, and now we’ve given them a major revamp. We’ve rewritten around 90% of the content (keeping 1 or 2 of our favourite questions) to make the new pack fun, engaging and relevant for young people today.

Alongside the colourful designs they’re also a full 52-card, four-suit, Ace-King set, so you can integrate them with your favourite card games, or, if you’re feeling talked out, just play cards! For more ideas on how to use the cards check out https://www.youthscape.co.uk/p....

We hope these cards bring about some great conversations with the young people you work with and help create a space young people feel listened to and supported in regards to their mental and emotional wellbeing.