What are Think, Feel, Act Cards?

一个米ost powerful and simple tools we’ve created, TFA Cards support you to increase self-awareness and emotional intelligence. The set includes 66 cards with different thoughts, feelings and actions, plus an instruction booklet in a display box. This hands-on tool increases awareness about choices and is ideal for coaching, small group instruction, or personal development. The cards help people understand the differences between thoughts, feelings, and action by providing examples — and there are blank cards. With a dry-erase marker, the blank cards can be turned into any other thought, feeling, or action.

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How Do You Use Think, Feel, Act Cards?

There are many exercises you can do with TFA Cards that are foundational for building emotional intelligence. For example, you can assess a recent decision to identify the patterns you followed in your reaction. You simply select cards that match your thoughts, feelings, and actions during the decision, and then follow a process to examine those choices. The tool helps clarify the components of decision-making, shows the links between thought, feeling, and action, and increases awareness of patterns.

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应用程序:

• recognize patterns – observe typical responses
• evaluate a decision / apply consequential thinking – identify the costs & benefits of a reaction; create sequences of cards to show how an event unfolds.
• enhance emotional literacy – learn more feeling vocabulary, see what might trigger feelings; identify various sets of feelings and how different feelings motivate people differently.
• conflict resolution – identify each person’s reactions and wants
• communication – gain insight into what triggers reactions
• coaching – zoom into a reaction and distill the incident into component parts that can be addressed

Testimonials

改变本·“简单但非常强大的技术avior. Personally, I’ve found TFA cards incredibly useful in improving my relationships. It’s practical and works instantly: You change your thinking, and you get the intended results. And by repetition you can the patterns.”
Tauqir Ahmad

“Very simple, easily applicable and powerful tool.”
Saranya Devanathan

More resources

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