Mental Focus Family Vibe card game

Family Vibe – A positive-focus card game to strengthen family relationships

Would you like your family bonds to grow stronger? But how?

200 positive-focus questions and playful challenges for families

Family Vibe helps family members not just be side by side in everyday life, but truly pay attention to each other, laugh together, tell stories, remember and connect.

The deck contains 200 positive-focus questions and playful tasks that bring family members closer through five different themes: tuning in together, recalling memories, empowering family stories, recognizing each other, and expressing wishes and shared plans.

The five themes:

• Family circle

• Time together

• Resilience

• Appreciation

• Ray of hope

Several generations can join the game, so the same card can bring out completely different stories and perspectives from a child, a parent or a grandparent.

6 ways Family Vibe cards can help you

• More real attention to each other

• Preserving shared memories and family stories

• Discovering family resources and coping stories

• Expressing appreciation and positive feedback

• Sharing dreams, wishes and shared plans

• More shared laughter and playfulness

Why is it important to develop family relationships?

Family often gets less conscious attention because we take its presence for granted.

With a partner, it's easier to remember to plan a date.

With friends, we arrange activities.

With family, however, we often think:

'We're together anyway.'

But time spent together and connection are not the same thing.

A family relationship also needs nurturing:

• you need to make time for conversation,

• you need to stay curious about each other,

• you need to listen to the other's perspective again and again,

• you need to express appreciation,

• you need to create shared experiences,

• you need to preserve family stories.

This is especially important because family members are constantly changing.

A six-year-old is not the same as a twelve-year-old.

A teenager's thinking, interests and vision of the future change quickly.

Parents change too.

And grandparents' stories don't automatically pass on to the next generation.

So developing family relationships really means:

Getting to know each other again from time to time.

How does Family Vibe help with this?

Often the problem isn't that family members don't want to talk. It's simply hard to find the right question.

The classic question:

'What happened at school today?'

easily gets the answer:

'Nothing.'

But if you ask:

• which shared trip they remember most fondly,

• which family habit always makes them laugh,

• which family member's story they draw strength from,

• what sentence they'd love to hear from you,

• what new thing they'd try next year,

a completely different conversation can begin.

The card helps because you don't always have to come up with the question yourself.

What's more, the question is for everyone.

It's not the parent questioning the child.

Mom answers too.

Dad too.

Grandma too.

The child too.

It feels much more like a shared discovery.

Who is the card deck recommended for?

Family Vibe can be a good choice:

• for families with young children,

• for families raising school-age children,

• for families raising teenagers,

• for families with several children,

• for families with one child,

• for blended families,

• for single-parent families,

• for grandparents and grandchildren,

• for multi-generational family gatherings,

• for siblings,

• for families who'd like more time together,

• for those who find it hard to start conversations with their children,

• for families whose teenager is telling them less and less,

• for those who'd like to give each other more positive feedback,

• for families who'd like to preserve their shared stories,

• for those who spend a lot of time together but have little undivided attention,

• for families who'd like more screen-free activities together,

• for vacations,

• for weekend family activities,

• for holidays,

• for family dinners.

It can be especially good if you'd like to spend time together but you're tired of the question:

'So, what shall we do?'

Who can make good use of Family Vibe cards?

Family Vibe was made primarily for families to play together, but the questions and tasks can also be used well in educational, community and helping settings.

Among others, it can be used by:

• teachers,

• class teachers,

• kindergarten teachers, with age-appropriate cards,

• special education teachers,

• school helping professionals,

• family support workers,

• social workers,

• mentors,

• mental health professionals,

• psychologists,

• professionals working in family counseling,

• group leaders,

• trainers,

• youth leaders,

• camp leaders,

• facilitators of family programs.

Product details:

Box contents:

• 100 cards
• 200 questions or tasks
• Guide to using the cards

Card size: 95×90 mm
In a quality box with a lid.