Beating anxiety quickly and effectively without pills.
reduce stress
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overcome blocks to progress
improve well-being and vitality
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help you identify exactly what you need
identify your next step towards health
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What you get with your cards
12 Needs cards ~ illustrating the innate needs common to all human beings – so that you can help your clients identify any sources of anxiety.
8 Resource cards ~ illustrating the innate resources / skills / capabilities that we all share – so that you can remind your clients of their own innate abilities.
7 Information cards ~ a “what else?” card and others that can be used to teach the “Needs Model of Well-being” and “Black and White Thinking” so that you can help your clients to understand their own reactions. Plus an extra card with scan-able links to download your 80 page reference book as a PDF file so that you can quickly get up to speed using the cards.
Guide book ~ A printed copy of the 80 page Anxiety Freedom Cards book. The book gives a full explanation of how to use the cards with your clients, and a full explanation for each and every card complete with examples and stories. It includes a summary of the needs model of well-being, suggestions for different ways of using the cards personally, with individuals and with groups.
Anxiety Survival Guide ~ The Anxiety Survival Guide provides a comprehensive introduction to understanding and resolving anxiety. It includes a link to a fantastic web-based resource which will guide you through a series of questions to help you overcome anxiety.
Free Introductory Videos ~ This is a series of three videos that gives plenty of suggestions for getting started with the cards so that you can start using them straight away.
Suitable for...
Suitable for Individuals
Suitable for Coaches / Therapists
Suitable for Groups
Why Anxiety Freedom Cards?
Practical
Help manage your own anxiety. Focus on things that really matter in life and identify the next steps to take to reduce your own stress and anxiety.
Accessible
Works with everyone, whatever age, gender, or culture. Helps the most stuck individuals to open up quickly.
Easy to use
Easily integrates with your existing routines. Fits well with solution focused intervention, talking therapy, body work, personal development, coaching or spiritual exploration.
Saves time
Helps to focus on real issues rather than on their relationship with you, which actually helps to build the relationship more quickly. This is particularly valuable when working with those who struggle to engage.
Simple to use
Helps support complex issues and working with the anxiety freedom cards makes it easier and fun. Guaranteed to generate lively discussion in any group setting.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the cards for?
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How much training do you need?
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The 80 page book which is included (as a PDF download) gives detailed instructions on how to get started and includes a reference section providing interpretations, keywords and stories for each of the 26 individual cards.
And if you want to take things further, in8 provide comprehensive training programmes, both online and in person.
Who uses the cards?
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People resonate with these ideas regardless of their background because the ideas come from a fundamental and basic understanding of what it means to be human. Focusing on those things which we all share in common, our innate resources and our innate needs as living beings, helps to make the approach universal in its application.
Are they like Tarot or Oracle cards?
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How do you use the cards?
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Once the blue cards have helped to clarify what needs to be addressed, stepping through the orange “resource” cards will help you identify which of your innate skills you are currently using, ignoring or abusing in order to get the missing need(s) better met. This is the simplest way to begin, but there are countless other ways to use the cards.
The cards can be considered “catalysts” to get conversations started. This can be incredibly useful in face to face meetings, as commonly experienced by therapists and coaches of all types. You can start using the cards straight away without any training. But if you want to benefit from the extensive experience of the many hundreds of people already using the cards, you may want to check out in8’s various training options.
Where's the evidence?
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Firstly, I would point out that recent cross cultural studies have endorsed the idea that human have basic needs (the original work of Abraham Maslow). Interestingly, these studies did not support that idea that there is always a hierarchy as in the well-known pyramid of needs that is in nearly every psychology textbook.
Secondly, the “needs model of well-being” is just one of the fundamental organising ideas that underpins the human givens approach – and they have real data from thousands of people showing that this is an effective approach to well-being.
Thirdly, a recent peer reviewed article: Developing a student led school mental health strategy by Cathy Atkinson and six others references the use of the in8 Cards as a creative tool used in their work.
But we acknowledge that none of this is in itself scientific proof that these ideas work. We have seen them work in our therapy practice, but we encourage you to consider the ideas and reflect on what they mean to you in order to obtain empirical evidence.