Check-ins
Please select a picture card that reflects for you "something nice that happened this weekend".
SIM Picture Cards
A powerful facilitation and coaching tool for creating metaphors with individuals and groups. Like stories, picture cards simplify the complex, make the abstract concrete — and give everyone a voice.
Everything you need to facilitate
Designed to help facilitators and coaches run effective sessions that create meaningful connections and insights.
- Powerful embodiment tool
- The beautiful images combined with a carefully worded question enable every participant to make a connection to the topic, and to release their voice.
- Professionally curated images
- High-quality images have been carefully selected to connect with a wide range of emotions and experiences. Chosen with consideration for the diversity of people who will participate in the activities.
- Easy to use
- Easy for hosts and participants alike. As a facilitator or coach, set up a new session in less than a minute. Participants engage immediately.
- Limitless
- Randomised card layouts and infinite ways to use them ensure that this tool can be used every day.
How a session works
- 1
Write your questions
Create a session and add the questions you want to ask. For each one, choose how many cards people pick and whether they can add a note.
- 2
Share one link
Send the link or put it on screen. People join from a phone, tablet or laptop with just their name. No downloads, no accounts.
- 3
Everyone picks, then shares
Each person picks the cards that speak to them. You bring each pick up on screen, and they tell the group what they see in it.
Try it yourself
This is what participants see on their phone or laptop. Tap a card to pick it. Nothing here is saved.
Demo session4 people
Question 1 of 1
Pick a picture card that shows how you're arriving today.
Tap the card that speaks to you.
What you see as the facilitator
Ask and pause questions, watch picks come in, and bring anyone's cards up on the shared screen when it's their turn to talk.
As coaches or facilitators, we have all experienced the times when we ask a question and participants or coachees struggle to connect with their response or to find the words to express that response. The images bridge this gap by enabling authentic, conscious and subconscious connections and helping the internal awareness to be made visible externally.
The uses for these SIM Picture Cards are as varied as the facilitator or coach can imagine.
Ways to use the cards
Discover how facilitators and coaches around the world use SIM Picture Cards to create breakthrough moments in their sessions.
Introductions
Please select a picture card that communicates something about who you are.
Setting up for success
Please select a picture card that reflects what you want to leave at the door for this session.
Introducing the intention
Please select a picture card that in some way for you connects with "great customer service".
Connecting to experiences
Please select a picture card that reflects for you a time that you felt heard.
Team building
Please select a picture card that reflects for you how you'd love this team to be.
Retrospectives
Please select a picture card that represents what our last Sprint looked like. And then please select a second card for how you'd like the next Sprint to be. After sharing what they saw expressed in each card, ask the person to reflect on what we need to do to get from one state to the other.
Connecting with ourselves
We are going to explore what would bring you pleasure. Please pick a picture card that attracts your attention. Tell me what you notice in the picture. Then ask questions that enquire deeper into what was shared to see what insights emerge.
Easing into storytelling
We are going to share stories. Please pick a picture card that attracts your attention. Tell us what you see taking place in the picture. What may have taken place before the picture was taken? And after?
Pricing
Choose the perfect plan for your needs
Online Plans
Run live sessions online — start free, upgrade when your groups grow
Free
Everything you need to try it out
Free
no card required
- 3 active sessions
- Up to 8 participants per session
- Sessions up to 24 hours
- 30-card Lite deck
Starter
For regular facilitation
Contact us
activated for your account
- Unlimited active sessions
- Up to 20 participants per session
- Sessions up to 7 days
- 30-card Lite deck
Full Deck
Premium
For professional practices
Contact us
activated for your account
- Unlimited active sessions
- Up to 30 participants per session
- No session duration limit
- Full 80-card Classic deck
- Priority support
Paid plans are activated on your account by our team — get in touch and we'll set you up.
Physical Products
Tangible card sets for offline facilitation
Physical Cards
Tangible cards for offline use
R500
one-time purchase
- Physical Card Set
- Offline Use
- Unlimited Participants
These picture cards are used by us as part of the Stori Improv Mapping™ (SIM) model.
We teach this model to coaches and facilitators so that you can move your people. The SIM Essentials course is accredited through the University of the Witwatersrand.
For more information on this courseContact Us
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