New Member
Welcome to Forum
New to Forum, or preparing for your first meeting? Start here.
📖 The Member Path — three stages, from your first meeting to going deeper →
Confidentiality, the 5%, and experience sharing, with the Johari Window underneath to explain why they work together.
Confidentiality
The agreement: nothing, no one, never.
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The 5%
Share what you wouldn't share anywhere else.
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Experience Sharing
What happens when we want to help, and what to do instead of giving advice.
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The Johari Window
The map underneath the 5%, in four quadrants.
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Maps of Depth
Four interactive maps that extend the Johari Window: what a presenter wants back, how deep a share can go, and how a forum changes over its first six years.
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Structure gives forum its durability: attendance as commitment, a constitution the group writes together, defined roles, and an annual retreat.
Commitment & Attendance
Attendance as a commitment, not a rule.
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Attendance & Scheduling Protocols
A fixed monthly date, a backup date for every meeting, and absences that go to the moderator, not the group thread.
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The Constitution
The agreement your Forum makes with itself: purpose, confidentiality, commitment, principles, governance.
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Forum Roles
The roles that keep a meeting running: moderator, presenter, coach, timer, and more.
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The Annual Retreat
A day or weekend away once a year, to strengthen trust and do the work that doesn't fit in four hours.
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For Moderators
Inside the Meeting
Three articles for moderators, plus guides and tools for running meetings.
🗓 The Moderator Path — three stages, from setting up to year three →
Harvard Business Review · May 2022
How to Get the Most out of Peer Support Groups
By Boris Groysberg and Robert Russman Halperin. An overview of peer forum benefits, best practices, and common challenges.
New Member Resources
Getting Started
Your orientation guide and the worksheets you'll use at every meeting.
For Members · 20 pages
Update and Presentation Prep Pack
Five update worksheets, the deep dive preparation guide and both presentation formats, seven emotion wheels, and the Hesse Partners five core emotions grid.
Prefer to do it on screen? The Emotimatic is an on-screen companion to those emotion wheels: describe what's happening and it helps you find the word for it. The Five Core Emotions grid is online too.
Moderator Resources
Your Toolkit
Guides, templates, and tools for running meetings.
For Moderators
The Moderator’s Guide
Running meetings, coaching members, and reading group dynamics.
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Debrief Guide · Meeting Pulse
Reading Your Pulse Report
How to read a Meeting Pulse report: why the spread tells you more than the average, which number is worth bringing to your Forum, and what it means when written answers are held.
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For Moderators · 5 pages
Moderator Field Kit
Quick reference for running meetings, standard and short agenda templates, and a side-by-side comparison of all five update formats.
Forum Library
Go Deeper
Exercises, assessments, books, card decks, and an AI assistant.
Exercises
A Library of Forum Exercises
Activities organized by purpose: trust-building, depth, conflict, and celebration.
Assessments
Know Yourself Better
Tools that give members a shared language for their inner lives. Take them and bring your results.
Assessment
Enneagram
9 types — core fears, desires, and the strategies we use to survive
Forum Connection
The Enneagram explains why people react the way they do under stress. A Type 8 pushing back isn't being difficult — they're protecting. A Type 9 going quiet isn't checked out — they're preserving harmony.
Take it: enneagraminstitute.com (RHETI) [1]
Assessment
DISC
4 behavioral styles — how you act, not who you are
Forum Connection
Dominance types drive toward resolution. Influence types keep it light. Steadiness types absorb tension. Conscientious types need more data. Knowing the group's DISC profile helps a moderator calibrate pace and depth.
Take it: 123test.com [2]
Assessment
CliftonStrengths
Gallup — 34 themes, your top 5, what you do naturally well
Forum Connection
Strengths can become liabilities in a group. Achiever drives but can't slow down. Empathy absorbs but can lose itself. Command leads but can crowd others out. In Forum you can see your strengths in action, and notice when they're working against you.
Take it: gallup.com/cliftonstrengths [3]
Assessment
Saboteur Assessment
Shirzad Chamine / Positive Intelligence — the inner voices that undermine you
Forum Connection
Chamine's saboteurs — the Judge, the Stickler, the Avoider [4] — are immediately recognizable in forum presentations. When someone is stuck, there's usually a saboteur running the show. Naming it out loud is often what gets them moving.
Take it: positiveintelligence.com [4]
Assessment
Myers-Briggs
16 types — how you take in information and make decisions
Forum Connection
Introverts need processing time before they speak — build it in. Feeling types need relational safety before they'll go deep. Knowing the group's type distribution helps a moderator design meetings that work for everyone, not just the loudest members.
Take it: 16personalities.com [5]
Assessment
Attachment Style
Secure, anxious, avoidant, disorganized — how you connect under pressure
Forum Connection
Attachment patterns show up every meeting. Anxious members over-share, seeking reassurance; avoidant members deflect with humor or stay abstract. Understanding your own pattern changes how you hear feedback and how you offer it. Forum is one of the few places these patterns become visible in real time.
Take it: attachmentproject.com [6]
Bookshelf
The Forum Bookshelf
Books, frameworks, and resources, with notes on what's useful in forum.
A book can do three things here. It can give you words for what's happening inside you — people with finer-grained language for their inner life turn out to navigate it differently. It can show you your own pattern in someone else's story, far enough away to look at it instead of through it. And it can show that your private experience has been had before, and described precisely — the same discovery forums are built on. Books work best one at a time: chosen for a question you're living, read slowly enough to argue with, and brought to the meeting as what you noticed, not what you learned.
Every book here was put forward by someone in the forum community. It isn't a best-of leadership list, and it isn't complete. Some books are about the group itself: saying the hard thing, staying present when someone else does, what makes a group safe enough for the truth. Others are about what members carry in: the transition years, the patterns that follow you from relationship to relationship, the question of what all the achievement was for. If a book has mattered to you, add it: tell your moderator or send it our way.
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
How to stop chasing approval and focus on what matters in your life.
Forum Connection
Manson's Onion of Self-Awareness maps what forums do: what you feel, then why, then questioning your own values.
Exercise: "Name the feeling, then why, then the value underneath."
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Daring Greatly
Why vulnerability is the engine of trust — and the risk most people avoid.
Forum Connection
Brown's shame resilience framework gives moderators language for the hard moments when someone pulls back.
Exercise: Vulnerability Spectrum — place your share on a scale from safe to edge.
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Fierce Conversations
How to say the hard truth without destroying the relationship.
Forum Connection
The conversation IS the relationship. [7] Scott's Mineral Rights model is the best framework for going deeper in a presentation. Seven steps for drilling down to what matters. [8]
Exercise: Beach Ball [9] — "What stripe are you seeing that nobody has named?"
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A Hidden Wholeness
How to create a space where people can hear their own inner voice.
Forum Connection
Palmer's Circles of Trust [10] are the closest cousin to HBS forums from a different tradition. No fixing, no advising. Honest open questions only. The Third Thing as shared material.
Exercise: Respond only with questions that have no hidden agenda.
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Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Trust, conflict, commitment, accountability, results — in that order.
The Five Dysfunctions
1. Absence of Trust — unwilling to be vulnerable
2. Fear of Conflict — artificial harmony over honest debate
3. Lack of Commitment — ambiguity, no buy-in
4. Avoidance of Accountability — low standards go unchallenged
5. Inattention to Results — ego and status over collective outcomes [11]
Vulnerability-based trust maps onto forum. Personal Histories — where you grew up, siblings, biggest challenge — is Lencioni's fastest trust-builder.
Exercise: Personal Histories [12] — best in meeting 2 or 3.
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Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life
For when you've achieved what you set out to achieve and the question becomes: now what?
Forum Connection
Hollis brings Jungian depth to midlife questions [13]: are you living the life your soul intended, or the one your adaptations created? For year 4 and beyond.
Prompt: "What has life been asking of you that you've been avoiding?"
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The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership
Taking responsibility, feeling all feelings, speaking candidly, eliminating gossip — 15 commitments that give the whole group a shared language.
The 15 Commitments
1. Take radical responsibility
2. Learn through curiosity
3. Feel all feelings
4. Speak candidly
5. Eliminate gossip
6. Practice integrity
7. Generate appreciation
8. Excel in your zone of genius
9. Live a life of play and rest
10. Explore the opposite
11. Source approval, control, and security internally
12. Have enough of everything
13. Experience the world as an ally
14. Create win-for-all solutions
15. Be the resolution [14]
Above/Below the Line [15], Four Core Emotions, Drama Triangle [16] — the CLG frameworks that show up most in forum work all come from here.
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True North
Crucibles — the 2–3 defining experiences that shaped who you are.
Forum Connection
George's argument: leadership is knowing your story, not mastering strategy. Crucibles are one of the most powerful presentation formats in any forum.
Exercise: Crucibles [17] — each member presents 2–3 experiences that fundamentally changed them. "Who are your five truth-tellers?"
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Getting Unstuck
When you're stuck and can't name why. Impasse as the starting point, not the problem.
Forum Connection
Butler writes about impasse [18], where people get stuck and can't move. His Deeply Embedded Life Interests help members see what they're drawn to beneath the career they built.
Exercise: "Where in your life do you feel most stuck right now? What would it mean to stay there?"
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From Strength to Strength
The shift from fluid to crystallized intelligence — and why the second half of your career requires a different playbook.
Forum Connection
Brooks explains why high achievers hit a wall in midlife: the shift from fluid to crystallized intelligence. The Striver's Curse names what many members are living but haven't articulated.
Exercise: "Where are you holding onto a version of success that no longer fits?" Four Pillars Audit: faith, family, friendship, meaningful work.
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Immunity to Change
Why you keep repeating the behavior you said you'd stop — and the hidden commitment that makes change so hard.
Forum Connection
Why smart people don't change: hidden commitments silently compete with stated goals [19], and the Immunity Map surfaces the assumptions keeping someone stuck. Forum is one of the few places where members can map their hidden commitments out loud and have them tested by peers.
Exercise: Immunity Map — name the goal, the behaviors working against it, the hidden commitment, and the big assumption underneath.
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The Fearless Organization
The scientific case for psychological safety.
Forum Connection
Edmondson's research is on psychological safety. When people believe they won't be judged for speaking honestly, they bring what's real. Her finding: the best teams report more errors, not fewer. Forums where members share failures openly follow the same pattern.
Exercise: "What's the thing you almost didn't say tonight?" Use at the close of a meeting to surface what was held back.
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How Will You Measure Your Life?
The plans you made vs. the life that actually unfolded.
Forum Connection
Christensen applied his disruption theories to what makes a life meaningful. His distinction between deliberate and emergent strategy gives members language for the gap between where they thought they'd be and where they are.
Exercise: "What was your deliberate strategy for your life? What actually emerged? Which one are you living?"
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Leadership on the Line
Technical problems have clear solutions. Adaptive challenges require you to change.
Forum Connection
Most of what forum members bring is adaptive — no expert can solve it for them. Heifetz and Linsky's "getting on the balcony" — stepping back to see the pattern while you're in it — is what a moderator does when the group gets stuck.
Exercise: "Is this a technical problem or an adaptive challenge?" Use after a presentation to help the group see why advice won't work. "What would you have to give up to move forward?"
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Man's Search for Meaning
Meaning isn't found, it's made — even in the worst circumstances imaginable.
Forum Connection
Logotherapy rests on one claim: the last human freedom is choosing your response. Members carrying a loss, a diagnosis, or a business failure reach for this book because it moves the question from why me to what now.
Prompt: "What is life asking of you right now that you would rather it did not?"
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Atlas of the Heart
Eighty-seven emotions, precisely named.
Forum Connection
Brown maps eighty-seven emotions. Her research finds that most adults run everything through three — happy, sad, angry — which is why so many check-ins stall at fine. Fine closes a conversation; a named feeling opens one.
Exercise: Run a check-in where nobody may use happy, sad, angry, fine, or busy.
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Designing Your Life
Prototype your next chapter instead of planning it.
Forum Connection
Burnett and Evans apply design thinking to your own life [20]: you cannot think your way to a next chapter, you prototype it. The Odyssey Plan asks you to draft three different five-year lives [21], not to choose one but to see what you keep reaching for across all three. Useful for a member stuck on what next.
Exercise: Odyssey Plan — draft three different versions of your next five years, and present all three.
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Attached
Why you pursue, withdraw, or go quiet in close relationships — patterns that follow you into the meeting.
Forum Connection
Levine and Heller bring attachment research into adult life. [22] The three patterns — anxious, avoidant, secure [22] — describe what a person does when closeness is at stake. They shape how you take feedback, how much you disclose, and whether you can let the group sit with you.
Prompt: "When someone close to you goes quiet, what do you assume, and what do you do next?"
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Changing Gear
How to leave a big role without losing yourself.
Forum Connection
Hall and Stokes interviewed senior leaders about leaving the big role and found the hard part is rarely money or logistics — it is identity. They treat the exit as work in its own right, not a gap between jobs.
Prompt: "If you were not your title, how would you introduce yourself?"
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The Artist's Way
Three pages, longhand, every morning before anything else.
Forum Connection
Morning Pages are a thinking practice more than a creative one: no editing, no reader. What surfaces is usually the thing you have been avoiding naming. Members who keep it up tend to arrive at forum already knowing what they need to present.
Exercise: Morning Pages for two weeks, then bring whatever kept showing up.
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Drawn from the Shared HBS Experience
Exercises built on what every member has in common: the same school, the same anxieties, the same before-and-after.
Mentorship
Who Mentored Us. Who Do We Mentor.
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The Exercise
Who mentored you — effectively or ineffectively — and how did it shape you? Who are your past and present mentees, and what have you learned from being on that side of the relationship? Have you mentored second-year MBA students through HBS Life Connect or similar programs? What does the mentoring you give look like compared to what you received?
June 2024
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Navigating the Healthcare System at This Stage
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The Exercise
Warning signs you've learned to watch for. Questions you wish you'd asked sooner. Condition-specific knowledge that took you years to accumulate. What has the healthcare system taught you — about navigating it, advocating within it, or caring for someone else inside it?
April 2023
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How My First Job Out of HBS Really Turned Out
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The Exercise
What do you remember about graduation, that summer, the job you took? How did it really unfold versus what you expected walking out of Baker Library?
July 2022
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The Burden of the Harvard MBA
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The Exercise
When the degree comes up in a new group — do you lead with it or bury it? How do people react when they find out? Have you felt the weight of unrealistic expectations, or noticed people holding back honest feedback because of what's on your résumé? And when you made an inevitable mistake at work, did the degree make it worse?
May 2022 · Credit: Alan Carswell, MBA 1982B
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Something I Did That Took Courage
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The Exercise
What did you do that required you to act against fear, against social pressure, against your own comfort — and what did it cost you, and what did it give you? What did you learn about yourself on the other side of it?
April 2022
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Bloopers
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The Exercise
The decision that looked obvious in hindsight. The email you wish you could unsend. The meeting that went sideways in a way you still think about. Bloopers land best when they're specific and told with the distance of time.
March 2022
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What Were We Thinking, Approaching Graduation?
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The Exercise
What was your light at the end of the tunnel? Where were you headed geographically, financially, personally? Can you look back now with wisdom rather than regret — and knowing what you know, how might you have decided differently?
February 2022
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Giving Back — On a Human Scale
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The Exercise
Set aside the major philanthropy and the named gifts. What have you done on a smaller, more personal scale that was meaningful to you, and why? The answer says something about what you value versus what you think you're supposed to value.
November 2021
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What It Was Like to Be "___" at HBS
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The Exercise
Religious affiliation. Nationality. Race or ethnicity. First language. The college you came from. Your pre-HBS work experience. Sexual orientation. Military service. Socioeconomic background. Fill in your blank, and share as lightly or as deeply as you're comfortable. Some stories will be funny. Others will be new to the group.
September 2021
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Second Year Choices
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The Exercise
What do you remember about choosing your second-year courses, clubs, and direction? What were you optimizing for — and was it the right target? Second year is often where people made their first real choices for themselves, without the safety net of a required curriculum. Do you wish you'd chosen differently? What would you choose now?
August 2021
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The Summer Between First and Second Year
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The Exercise
What did you do that summer, and how did it shape your personal and career path — even if you didn't know it yet? The summer internship, the trip, the relationship, the moment of doubt or clarity. Looking back, was it a confirmation of the direction you were heading, or the first hint that the plan needed to change?
June 2021
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The Gift of a Life Tip
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The Exercise
Think of a person who gave you a piece of advice, a tip, or a few words of wisdom that landed differently than advice usually does. Who were they? What did they say? What impact did that gift have — on a decision, a relationship, a way of seeing? The best answers here tend to be specific: the exact words, the exact moment, the exact reason it stuck.
December 2020 · Credit: Bill Novak, MBA 1982B
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An MBA Program Lesson That Actually Stuck
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The Exercise
How did you apply one lesson or idea from HBS in the real world? What single skill or concept had the greatest impact on your career? What helped or changed you most — not in theory, but in practice? And underneath all of these: was the money and time worth it?
August 2020 · Credit: Glenn Wattley, MBA 1982B
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Your First and Last Day at HBS
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The Exercise
What do you remember when you first walked into your classroom? What do you remember from your very last class? And somewhere in between — what memory from first year do you still savor?
July 2020
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Authentic Leader Development
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An HBS course, not a book. [23] Students work in six-person groups, share personal stories, give direct feedback [24], and develop self-awareness through vulnerability. Its format — confidentiality, personal disclosure, peer challenge — is close to what forums do monthly.
Exercise: Life Story — present the story of your life in 15 minutes. The group asks questions, not to solve, but to understand.
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Card Decks for Forum
Physical card decks for your meetings.
Build your toolkit: one from each category
Reflective · Playful · Values · Strategic — four decks that work together across a year of meetings
Reflective
Know Yourself Prompt Cards
The School of Life
$17 · 60 cards
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Sixty cards [25], each pairing a self-reflection exercise with a psychological analysis drawing on philosophy, therapy, and emotional intelligence research.
In forum: The exercise-and-analysis format gives facilitators a ready-made opener. Intellectual rigor earns trust with high-achievers who resist anything that feels like "therapy lite."
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Reflective
{THE AND} Self Edition
The Skin Deep
$22 · 199 cards
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199 questions [26] drawn from filmed conversations in an Emmy-winning [26] documentary project.
In forum: At 199 cards, this deck alone sustains years of monthly meetings.
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Reflective
Clean Change Cards
Judy Rees & Wendy Sullivan
~$17 · 52 cards
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Fifty-two Clean Language questions [27] — an assumption-free coaching methodology that helps people explore their own metaphors and thinking patterns.
In forum: Members take turns being "coached" by the group using these cards. No prior training needed.
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Playful
Big Talk
Kalina Silverman
$20 · 90 cards
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Built to skip small talk [28], with graduated depth that lets facilitators calibrate to the group's trust level.
In forum: Pick questions that match whether the group is in month two or month twenty.
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Playful
We're Not Really Strangers
Koreen Odiney
$25 · 150 cards
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Three progressive levels — Perception, Connection, Reflection — plus "Dig Deeper" overlay cards. [29]
In forum: Start with Level 1 in early meetings and move to Level 3 as trust deepens, where members share observations about each other.
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Playful
BestSelf Icebreaker Deck
BestSelf Co.
$27 · 170 cards
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170 psychology-backed prompts across 7 categories — Past, Random, Life, Relationship, Intimacy, About You, and Reflect & Connect. [30]
In forum: Start with "Random" for warmth, then shift to "Reflect & Connect" for depth. Won't repeat for months.
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Values
What Really Matters!
metaFox
$30–35 · 80 cards
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Values cards rooted in Schwartz's research on basic human values: 9 categories, with a facilitation guidebook. [31]
In forum: Members select top values, present to the group, and discuss where values show up (or don't) in daily decisions. The color system allows visual mapping across the group.
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Values
The Values Deck
Discover Your Values
$20 · 60 cards
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A card-sorting game [32] rooted in internationally validated research (200+ studies, 80 countries). Three-step framework: Aware, Affirm, Apply.
In forum: Suited to annual planning or new-member onboarding. Shows why members make certain decisions and where value conflicts create stress.
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Values
Core Values Deck
BestSelf Co. × The ONE Thing
$25 · 150 cards
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A guided card-sorting exercise for identifying and prioritizing core values [33], inspired by Gary Keller's ONE Thing framework. Includes blank cards. [33]
In forum: Members identify top values, share with the group, and use them as an accountability anchor throughout the year. Good for kickoffs or retreats.
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Strategic
The Coaching Game
Points of You®
$149–199 · 65 cards + toolkit
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An executive coaching tool pairing photographs with one-word life themes. Used by 50,000+ coaches worldwide.
In forum: The image-based approach bypasses intellectual defenses quickly. Included process maps give structure for leadership dilemmas and career crossroads.
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Strategic
Workshop Tactics
Pip Decks
$29–39 · 54 cards
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Fifty-four facilitation exercises, each on one card with step-by-step instructions. [34] Used by teams at Google and Apple. [34]
In forum: A pocket facilitation toolkit for moderators: each meeting, select the tactic that fits.
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Strategic
IDEO Method Cards
IDEO
$49 · 51 cards
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Fifty-one human-centered design methods [35] from IDEO's real project work — organized into Ask, Watch, Learn, and Try.
In forum: When a member presents a challenge, the group draws a method card that reframes the problem. Forces lateral thinking, useful for founders stuck in conventional frameworks.
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Forum Sage
An AI assistant trained on forum best practices. Ask it anything about running your group.
Ask it about a difficult member, a meeting that went flat, a presentation you don't know how to hold.
Forum Sage is an AI assistant. It will occasionally make mistakes or miss nuance that a human facilitator would catch.
For guidance on what to share and what to keep general, read the Forum Sage guide. For a deeper look at privacy, read the privacy deep dive.
Prefer a real conversation? Get in touch →
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Sources
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[1] per The Enneagram Institute, “The Enneagram Institute.” https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/
[2] per 123test, “DISC Personality Test.” https://www.123test.com/disc-personality-test/
[3] per Gallup, “What Are the 34 CliftonStrengths Themes?” https://www.gallup.com/cliftonstrengths/en/253715/34-cliftonstrengths-themes.aspx
[4] per Positive Intelligence, “Take the Saboteur Assessment.” https://positiveintelligence.com/saboteurs/
[5] per 16Personalities, “Free Personality Test.” https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test
[6] per The Attachment Project, “Attachment Style Quiz.” https://www.attachmentproject.com/attachment-style-quiz/
[7] Fierce, Inc. (Susan Scott), “About Fierce.” https://fierceinc.com/about/
[8] Fierce, Inc., “Mining for Solutions: How to Empower Your Employees to be Problem Solvers.” https://fierceinc.com/mining-for-solutions-how-to-empower-your-employees-to-be-problem-solvers/
[9] Fierce, Inc., “Here’s Why Different Perspectives Lead to the Best Ideas.” https://fierceinc.com/different-perspectives-lead-to-the-best-ideas-here-s-why/
[10] Wiley, A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life, 20th Anniversary Edition. https://www.wiley.com/en-us/A+Hidden+Wholeness:+The+Journey+Toward+An+Undivided+Life,+20th+Anniversary+Edition-p-9781394235070
[11] The Table Group (Patrick Lencioni), “Five Dysfunctions of a Team.” https://www.tablegroup.com/topics-and-resources/teamwork-5-dysfunctions/
[12] The Table Group, “Personal Histories Exercise.” https://files.tablegroup.com/content/download/personal-histories-exercise
[13] Penguin Random House, Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life by James Hollis. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/294336/finding-meaning-in-the-second-half-of-life-by-james-hollis/
[14] Conscious Leadership Group, “The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership.” https://conscious.is/15-commitments
[15] Conscious Leadership Group, “What Does it Look Like to Feel Emotions Consciously?” https://conscious.is/blog/what-does-it-look-like-to-feel-emotions-consciously/
[16] Conscious Leadership Group, “How to Use the Drama Triangle at Work.” https://conscious.is/blog/how-to-use-the-drama-triangle-at-work/
[17] Bill George, “HBS: The Truth About Authentic Leaders.” https://billgeorge.org/article/hbs-the-truth-about-authentic-leaders/
[18] Harvard Business Review Press, Getting Unstuck by Timothy Butler. https://store.hbr.org/product/getting-unstuck-a-guide-to-discovering-your-next-career-path/2254?sku=14821-PBK-ENG
[19] Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey, “The Real Reason People Won’t Change,” Harvard Business Review, November 2001. https://hbr.org/2001/11/the-real-reason-people-wont-change
[20] Penguin Random House, Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/249885/designing-your-life-by-bill-burnett-and-dave-evans/
[21] Designing Your Life, “The Magic of Odyssey Planning: Prototyping Three Futures.” https://designingyour.life/insights/the-magic-of-odysseys-prototyping-your-future-with-designing-your-life/
[22] Amir Levine and Rachel Heller, “Q&A with authors Amir Levine and Rachel Heller,” Attached the Book. https://www.attachedthebook.com/wordpress/qa/
[23] Harvard Business School Executive Education, “Scott Snook.” https://www.exed.hbs.edu/executive-fellow-scott-snook
[24] Harvard Business School, “Authentic Leadership Development” syllabus, Fall 2009. https://www.hbs.edu/rethinking-the-mba/docs/harvard-business-school-authentic-leadership-development-syllabus-fall-2009.pdf
[25] per The School of Life, “Know Yourself Prompt Cards.” https://shop.theschooloflife.com/products/know-yourself-prompt-cards
[26] per The Skin Deep, “{THE AND} Self Deck.” https://shop.theskindeep.com/products/the-and-self-deck
[27] per Clean Change Company, “Clean Change Cards.” https://cleanchange.co.uk/product/clean-language-cards/
[28] per Make Big Talk, “Big Talk.” https://www.makebigtalk.com/
[29] per We’re Not Really Strangers, “We’re Not Really Strangers Card Game.” https://www.werenotreallystrangers.com/products/not-really-strangers-card-deck
[30] per BestSelf Co., “Icebreaker Deck.” https://bestself.co/products/icebreaker-deck
[31] per metaFox, “What Really Matters! Deluxe Bundle.” https://metafox.eu/en-us/products/deluxe-bundle-what-really-matters
[32] per Discover Your Values, “The Values Deck.” https://www.discoveryourvalues.com/the-values-deck
[33] per BestSelf Co., “Core Values Deck.” https://bestself.co/products/core-values-deck
[34] per Pip Decks, “Workshop Tactics.” https://pipdecks.com/products/workshop-tactics
[35] per IDEO, “IDEO Method Cards.” https://www.ideo.com/journal/method-cards