Join the Global Creative Relay: Co-Create a Tarot for Social Transformation
We are living in times of great shifts, and context collapse. Many of these changes are challenging, but within them lies the potential for profound transformation. It’s time for us to come together in joy, art, and co-creation to plant the seeds of change. To light our own candles in the dark, to share what works, and seed it in our own conscious and our communities.
Many futures exist at every moment, what are the seeds of the one’s we wish to grow!
Why a Tarot?
The tarot is a mirror that helps you see what is, it provides you with images and symbols that allow you to reflect on your reality and offer provocations, opportunities and possibilities. These symbols work at both the conscious and subconscious level bringing to the surface stories, ideas and a web of personal connections. Stories change how we see a situation, how we feel about it and in doing so shape how we act and the states of being we exist within.
Cards for Change is a crowd-created Tarot for Social Transformation. This unique deck is about envisioning a better world for all, about imagining together and collecting and sharing what works. From March 21st to 24th, we invite you to join 78+ people from around the globe in a creative relay to expand an existing deck developed in previous workshops.
Why Participate?
- Global Impact: Be part of a worldwide movement to create a tool for social transformation.
- Community Connection: Share insights, ideas, and possibilities with a diverse group of changemakers. Join sharing sessions, connect in grief, in hope, in longing.
- Creative Expression: No artistic skill required — just your unique perspective and creativity.
- A Light in the Dark: When everything feels hopeless, it’s exactly the right time to light up our imaginations with love and optimism. Feel what you are feeling, it’s ok to be in and create from that space.
How it works:
Pick an hour to create your card/s: Each card can represent an event, technology, archetype/character, or pattern of consciousness that triggers reflection and represents social transformation. Reflect on something that you think is critical for social transformation and draw it. We aim to create at least 1 card an hour for 78 hours.
Collaborate and Share: Join virtual gatherings, live streams, and social media challenges to connect with other participants. Witness the creations of others at the start of your slot, and share your own at the end. If you wish you can even gather friends and family and generate multiple cards together in this period, and use it to stimulate local discussions.
Receive Your Deck: Every participant will receive a compiled PDF to print their own deck at home, after the event.
Spread the Word: Share this event with your network using #CardsForChange.
Together, we can create a powerful tool that inspires and guides us through these transformative times. Your creativity can light the way for a brighter future.
Cards for Change is by donation – so you will be invited to pay what you feel is fair. The more greatly this is valued, the more attention we will give it and evolve and play with these ideas in the future.
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About the Facilitators:
Jay Cousins is an inventor, entrepreneur and catalyst for community and change.
He has facilitated workshops at various scales from the Makerlabs – Festivals of Making and Sharing, to small scale workshops ranging from Forecasting Future Responses to crisis, to building domes from waste and trashformational toys. He has witnessed the power of storytelling, even co-founding a maker-space in Berlin with a story of sharing. He blogs/podcasts at Make Kindness Easier and can be seen here in conversation with Dougald Hine.
Zeinab Kamal is a Tarot creatrix, reader for 20 years, storyteller and Tarot teacher. Currently pursuing an academic degree in psychology. Held over 20 Tarot Learning Journeys incorporating Ancient Egyptian mythology and archetypes e.g. Heru/Horus’s, inspired by the work of Joseph Campbell and Moreen Morduck’s “The Heru-ine’s Journey with a 1000 Faces”.
Find out more about her work here.
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