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Guidelines

A few words about the attitude with which we use the Gefühlsmonster® Cards:

"Well, let's analyze it," said a seminar participant in a consultation with the person who selected Gefühlsmonster® Cards for her current situation. His words inspired me to formulate the following guidelines, which have proven themselves over the years in our work:

• The guiding question is: What does this card mean for you? In this way you will receive open answers and invite the other to say more about the card.

• Whoever looks at the cards decides what they see in the pictures.

• Own words about the cards are more helpful than attributions by another person.

• Each figure can and should be understood differently. You can expect to be surprised which figure your conversation partner assigns which meaning.

• If necessary, the conversation partner can add some feedback to these descriptions.

• The quality of the accompanying person’s work with the Gefühlsmonsters® Cards corresponds to her openness, flexibility and empathy.

• The word monster or Gefühlsmonsters should only be used if the person looking at it understands that it is meant playfully.

• In a business context, we like to use the word "emotion cards" as an introduction, in order to soften the initially unusual use of comic illustrations. As soon as people have experienced the cards in action, they like the name Gefühlsmonsters, because it makes the intensity of the experienced feelings tangible and combines it with humour.