Angels with Attitude

Duration: 15+ min
Number of players: 1+ player/s
Materials/ Tools needed: Metaphoric cards “Angels with Attitude”
Publisher: Innovative Resources
Language: Language independent
Links https://innovativeresources.org/resources/digital-resources/digital-card-sets/angels-digital-version/

Short description

“Angels with Attitude” is a set of 52 exquisitely-illustrated, heart-warming digital cards featuring ‘everyday’ angels. Each card represents an important quality or skill that we may want to celebrate or invite into our family, workplace, classroom and community, such as contentment, peace, assertiveness, clarity, openness, balance or adventure.

Educational value/ Learning Objectives

Angels is based on the understanding that by strengthening our capacity to notice and name the strengths and blessings that come into our day, we strengthen our own capacity to develop and communicate them. In this way we become a more abundant source of those strengths for others and for ourselves.

Recommendations for use

  • Counsellors, social workers, teachers, trainers, managers and motivators can use these cards to build conversations, encourage storytelling, and help people of all ages think differently about who they are, what is important, and how to navigate life’s ups and downs.
  • Is there are card that reminds you of someone  you know?
  • Can you choose a card that represents something you have received or given today? (It could be a quality, a feeling, a virtue, or an act of kindness.)
  • Think of someone who could really use some  support right now: What card represents a quality  you would want to ‘visit’ them?
  • Is there a card that represents a strength you would like to develop more?
  • What is one step you could take towards this?
  • For something you are about to undertake, which two cards represent the strengths you will need most?

Tips and Tricks for Facilitators 

How to adapt game for different groups, topics, occasions/needs

Cards can be used also as icebreakers, for example, put one card on each chair and let participants find a place to sit according to their mood. Then explain the mood they chose. Instead of mood, there can be any other question connected to the topic. 

For increasing creativity. Tell your own stories or fairy tales, by choosing 3 cards. Next person can continue the story with another 3 cars. 

You can also draw the story, by putting a card in the center of a big paper. Continue to draw to the right, left, up and down. 

Feedback questions

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What was the most challenging?
What did you enjoy the most?


Further discussion topics

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