Card Game
The Social Worker's Deck
52 Questions for People Holding Everyone's Story Except Their Own
Each question helps the social worker name what they are holding — and what it actually costs.
For social workers and community service professionals.
The Name It First Experience
You have been holding everyone's story — this deck is where you hold your own. The Social Worker's Deck delivers 52 questions for community service professionals who carry other people's crises, traumas, and needs all day and have rarely been asked to name what that costs them — what they absorb, what they cannot put down, and what they need that no one has structured space to provide. It is for the social worker, community organizer, and human services professional who gives everything and has never been asked what they are actually carrying. You work through it and leave with the cost named — which is the first step to not paying it alone.
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Sample questions
- Whose story are you carrying today that is not yours — and what does that weight feel like?
- What made you choose this work — and is that reason still alive in how you show up?
- What would staying in this field sustainably require from you that you have not yet built?
Research basis
Grounded in Figley (1995) compassion fatigue and the cost of caring in helping professions / Maslach burnout inventory applied to social workers / Bride (2007) secondary traumatic stress in social work.
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The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.
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We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.
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The keepsake edition — sewn, ribboned, made to sit on a shelf and be returned to.
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Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.
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Hands-Free Interactive + membership+membership
Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.
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The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.
Essential path
Shorter sessions. The questions that go directly to the document.
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Every question. Every scenario, every angle.
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