Bring the power of Artful Inquiry digital cards into your facilitation, coaching and conversations.
Images invite curiosity, conversation and new perspectives. Some conversations and ideas flow more easily when supported by images.
Working with images changes the quality of conversations. People slow down, listen differently, express ideas that can be difficult to put into words and discover insights that may never have emerged through words alone.
This is Artful Inquiry: an approach that invites people to see, think and connect in new ways through images.
Whether you’re facilitating a workshop, coaching an individual, leading a team or creating space for reflection, Artful Inquiry Cards offer a simple and flexible way to bring this approach into your work, whether you’re working online, face to face or in hybrid settings.
What becomes possible with Artful Inquiry Cards?
Images can be used for introductions and conversation starters, as provocations for creative thinking, visualisation, When people are invited to respond using images rather than answering a direct question, conversations often become richer, more thoughtful and more inclusive.
Images help us notice what we might otherwise overlook. They interrupt habitual thinking, encourage curiosity and make it easier to explore different perspectives. Because there is no single right interpretation, every image becomes an invitation to reflect, learn and discover something new together.
Bring Artful Inquiry into …
- Introductions and connection
- Coaching conversations
- Leadership development
- Team reflection
- Creative thinking
- Navigating change
- Conflict conversations
- Planning and strategy
- Learning reviews
- Storytelling
- Wellbeing conversations
- Personal reflection
These are just a few of the possibilities. You’ll soon discover many more.
The Artful Inquiry Collection
Every Artful Inquiry Collection includes two complementary sets of cards, giving you different ways to work with the same collection of images.
Artful Inquiry Image Cards (Pack 1)
Work with images on their own, allowing participants’ observations, interpretations and experiences to shape the conversation.
Artful Inquiry Image + Prompt Cards (Pack 2)
The same collection of images, paired with simple inquiry prompts that gently invite people to begin, explore different perspectives and deepen the conversation. The prompts are designed as invitations rather than directions, offering another way into a the images while allowing participants to make their own meaning.
Together, the two sets give you the flexibility to adapt your approach to different groups, contexts and conversations.
Ready to bring Artful Inquiry into your conversations?
Add the power of Artful Inquiry to your facilitation, coaching and conversations, anywhere, anytime.
Artful Inquiry Cards are available through Communicarda, making them easy to use virtually, face to face and hybrid sessions.
Simply create your free Communicarda account, purchase the Artful Inquiry Collection, and you’ll have access to both the Image Cards and the Image + Prompt Cards, ready to use in your own facilitation, coaching and learning experiences.
Just follow these 3 easy steps to get your Artful Inquiry digital cards:
- Pop over to the Communicarda.com
- Sign up for your free Communicarda account (by adding it to your shopping cart)
- Add the Artful Inquiry digital cards pack to your shopping cart and check out.
The Communicarda team will take care of everything else for you and have you up and running in no time.
Everything you need to know about how to run sessions is readily available on the site.
Bonus digital cards pack: Your FREE account comes preloaded with the classic CCS Vision Pack 2017ed Digital Cards Pack. So, you will have this pack to use as well.
Get started today.
If you would like to discuss anything about the cards, please get in touch.