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Coaching Tool Guides

Free, practical how-to guides for the visual coaching tools — the steps, the questions to ask, and the psychology behind each. Your personal learning journey and progress live in the app.

Tool guides

Picture Cards

Picture Cards

Prompt reflection and conversation with the metaFox deep pictures — images that reach where words alone don't.

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Values Cards

Values Cards

Clarify what really matters with 80 research-based cards across nine value categories from Schwartz's model.

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Strengths Cards

Strengths Cards

Discover and develop character strengths with 52 cards across three life areas, grounded in positive psychology.

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Emotions Cards

Emotions Cards

Give clients words for what is going on inside — 60 feelings cards, color-coded by energy level.

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Beliefs Cards

Beliefs Cards

Identify and shift limiting beliefs with 60 cards across five Schema-Therapy-inspired domains.

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Inner Team

Inner Team

Map inner voices as team-member figures on the whiteboard and guide clients from inner conflict to self-leadership — based on Schulz von Thun's Inner Team model.

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Wheel of Life

Wheel of Life

The classic life-balance assessment — clients score their satisfaction across eight life areas directly on a shared wheel.

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Strengths Discovery

Strengths Discovery

A visual strengths assessment your client completes on their own, with optional 360° feedback and a report you debrief together on the whiteboard.

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Sailboat Metaphor

Sailboat Metaphor

Turn a strengths report into a coaching conversation clients remember — a whiteboard journey across eight zones of a sailboat, from goals and strengths to the circumstances you can't control.

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The Schwartz Value Model

The Schwartz Value Model

Why values sit in a circle, why some of them cannot both win, and how to read a client's ranked list against a cross-cultural baseline.

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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

The model behind "a value is a direction, not a destination": psychological flexibility, the six processes, and why a value that starts to feel like a rule has stopped working.

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