Reflection Cards

Fifty-two cards, one hundred and four questions, for the conversation you keep almost having.

Some conversations stall at the weather and the weekend before they ever get anywhere real. Reflection Cards exists for the gap between small talk and the stuff you actually want to know about someone — a partner of twenty years, a cousin you see once a year, or yourself on a quiet night alone.

Every card carries two questions, a lighter one to ease in and a deeper one for whenever the moment's ready. You choose how far to go.

Twelve Ways In

The deck sorts into twelve mindful themes, including Adventure, Creativity, Resilience, Kinship, Gratitude, and Compassion, so there's always a card that fits the room you're in. Flip the deck over between rounds and the cardbacks assemble into one connected piece of art, a small reminder that the conversations add up to something bigger than any single question.

What Makes It Different

Holstee has these cards produced by the same manufacturer behind Bicycle® playing cards, so the deck holds up the way a good deck of cards should — shuffled hundreds of times, carried in bags and glove compartments, still intact years later.

How to Use

Pull a card when dinner-party conversation runs dry, or set aside an evening to work through a stack together. Use them with family to learn something new about people you thought you already knew. Bring them to work for an off-site or a less-awkward Zoom icebreaker. Keep one in your pocket for a slow date night, one card a week, as a standing ritual. Or sit with the deck alone when you're the person you most need to reconnect with — the questions work just as well as journal prompts.

Product Details

52 cards, 104 questions, pocket-sized box (about 3.7 x 2.87 x 0.94 inches), made in the USA on sustainably sourced paper with vegetable-based inks. Best suited for ages 10 and up.

Ideal For

Dinner parties that need a nudge past small talk. Long-married couples and once-a-year relatives alike. Team off-sites and Zoom meetings that could use a real icebreaker. Anyone who wants better questions for the people already in their life.

The people you know best still have more to tell you. You just have to ask better questions.

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