JumpStart Cards

JumpStart Cards

Tools for Transformation

The JumpStart cards are designed for use with adolescents and adults wanting to JumpStart or fine-tune their helpful thinking and physical habits for optimal wellbeing.

These cards are equally suitable for people with more established anxiety, depression, stress and distress symptoms. 

All cards are based on well-established psychological theories, including Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Positive Psychology and Mindfulness frameworks. Each of these approaches represents an internally recognised, evidence-based way of improving your mental health.

Their compact design makes the JumpStart Cards discreet and portable, allowing you to carry them with you wherever you go, so they will be accessible when you need them most. Carry selected cards easily in your wallet, phone case or carry the whole packet in your bag, purse or backpack! Each of the 84 cards features three eye-catching strategies: a memorable visual, a name for the habit or strategy, and a brief but practical description aimed at improving retention of the key messages. Repeated practice and use of the strategy cards will help make helpful strategies second nature!

Yellow Cards (11 cards)

The blue cards represent the physical signs of anxiety, stress and distress. They include some of the most common and often misunderstood physical signs that indicate your body is preparing to or has already entered fight-or-flight mode. Without a threatening context, these are the very real bodily signs of a false alarm. 

Blue Cards (25 cards)

The blue cards represent unhelpful thinking habits typically associated with anxiety, depression and just feeling bad! They are a collection of the most common unhelpful thinking habits and patterns, many of which occur instantly and automatically, without conscious thought. These habits push us closer to fight or flight mode with just a few thoughts.

Purple Cards (40 cards)

These cards represent an assortment of proactive and reactive physical strategies that help "reset" your body thus helping it stay out of survival mode unnecessarily. These simple strategies can enhance our body's natural outlets for exiting stress chemicals and help prevent stress symptoms from building up.

Green Cards (6 cards)

The green cards represent some of our most powerful, untapped tools! These cards represent helpful and powerful thinking strategies and habits. Based on evidence based CBT, ACT, Positive Psychology and Mindfulness frameworks, these thinking habits and strategies offer alternative, helpful ways of thinking about yourself and the world, thus enhancing your ability to manage unhelpful stress and distress and literally change the way you think about thinking!

For Individuals

Use the yellow and blue cards to identify and monitor your most common physical signs of increased stress, distress and anxiety. Carry your focus cards with you to help you recognise and change your automatic habits. Use the purple and green cards to identify specific strategies and/or skills you want to learn or improve. Carry specific focus cards or carry the whole deck so you'll always have a strategy and a reminder of how to use it when you need it most!

For Clinicians