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Booklet for CARDS
A booklet supporting the use of self-care cards through creative and reflective practices, encouraging young people to explore emotions, boundaries, and personal narratives in a collective and empowering way.
Aims of the tool
To provide guidance on how to use self-care cards as tools for reflection and emotional awareness.
To support young people in exploring their needs, boundaries, and personal narratives through creative exercises.
To promote self-care as a daily, collective, and political practice.
To encourage experimentation with artistic, embodied, and imaginative methods for wellbeing.
Description of the tool
The Ecologies of Care booklet provides guidance on how to use a set of self-care cards developed through participatory workshops across Italy, France, the Netherlands, and Greece.
Each card combines evocative imagery with simple instructions, inviting users to engage in reflective, creative, and embodied practices. The booklet offers additional context and suggestions to deepen the experience, encouraging participants to take time, experiment, and adapt the cards to their own needs.
The activities include writing exercises, narrative exploration, imagination, and sensory practices, supporting users in exploring emotions, personal stories, and inner resources. These tools foster self-awareness, emotional expression, and connection with oneself and others.
Rooted in feminist perspectives, the booklet frames self-care as a daily and political practice, made of small actions such as setting boundaries, slowing down, and paying attention to one’s body and environment.
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Disclaimer
SALTO cannot be held responsible for the inappropriate use of these training tools. Always adapt training tools to your aims, context, target group and to your own skills! These tools have been used in a variety of formats and situations. Please notify SALTO should you know about the origin of or copyright on this tool.
Tool overview
http://toolbox.salto-youth.net/5576
This tool addresses
Youth Participation
Behind the tool
The tool was created by
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The tool was published to the Toolbox by
Isabella Mileti (on 7 April 2026)
and last modified
30 March 2026
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