Capability Cards ENG

1. When to use the Capability Cards?

The Capability Cards are a tool for having a meaningful conversation aimed at exploring the conversation partner’s desires and capabilities as broadly as possible. The conversation cards can be used in the following types of conversations:

• Personal development conversations. E.g. guidance conversations with volunteers, study counseling conversations, coaching conversations;
• Conversations in the context of social activation. E.g. pathways such as social prescribing, community development, parenting support, activity supervision;
• General explorations of the living environment. E.g. neighbourhood conversations, research around a specific theme, community development. These can be individual or group discussions.
• Collecting stories. E.g. life stories, qualitative or narrative research.

The Capability Cards have a modular structure where you can select and deploy cards according to your goal. Important: (1) Capability Cards are an instrument that in principle is meant to be used by professionals; (2) we recommend to first try out the Capability Cards yourself; (3) it is possible that other topics emerge in a conversation than expected beforehand and good aftercare is therefore important (think about this in advance).