Distillery Cards: Family

distilling fun and insight in every card!

Requirements

30-60 minute | 1-10 players | 12+ minimum age

Description

Dive into a deck of 52 cards designed to help you explore, observe, ask, and apply complex concepts with empathy, compassion, and critical thinking. Each card invites you to engage in activities that build confidence, strengthen relationships, solidify knowledge, and gain soul-nourishing insights. Get ready to transform your way of thinking!

How to Use Distillery Cards: Family

These cards contain 52 thoughtful prompts based on years of experience in education, counseling, and family therapy. They include questions and activities to help families:

1. Develop loving relationships
2. Show consistent affection
3. Provide a safe environment through supervision
4. Instill discipline through accountability

Game Rules:

• Assign the order of players who will pick up the cards (skip if only one player).
• Keep an open mind and respect each player's response or action.
• Consider health, safety, privacy, and dignity of players at all times.
• Maintain a nonjudgmental, relaxed, and enjoyable atmosphere.
• Players can skip or return to a card later.

Focus Areas:

The questions in the game have 4 categories

1. Love: explore how to say or write, "I Love You" explicitly.
2. Affection: consistently display loving feelings associated with saying/reading/writing "I Love You."
3. Supervision: discover how to provide a safe, caring, and healthy environment for well-roundedness.
4. Discipline: help people become accountable for their actions by creating safe boundaries and choosing behaviors that support love, respect, and safety.

Card Prompts:

Take a deeper dive in the game by reading the notes and explanations

• Explore: Dig deep/broaden the conversation.
• Observe: where did you witness/notice the action; count or measure?
• Ask: Think, reflect and wonder about the responses.
• Apply: Do, practice, and try out the suggestion.

Suggested Game Play:

1. Set aside time to play.
2. Shuffle the cards, then pick one from the deck and read the content.
3. Discuss and/or respond to the questions and prompts.
4. Take turns picking up new cards.
5. Go through as many cards as time allows.

Variation:

• Focus on a single topic to discuss: Love, Affection, Supervision, or Discipline.
• Choose one card from each topic to discuss per game play.
• Use cards during car rides; conversation starters during meals; ice breakers during gatherings; or as reflections during therapy or coaching sessions.

Who are the players?

Everyone in the family unit is invited to take part in this thoughtful and conversational game!

Challenge: play once a week and see how many new things you can learn about each other. Celebrate your discoveries with a fun family activity at the end of the week.