exercise · all tools
Status Cards on Foreheads
Depth · what it can open●●●○3 — emotional
Holding · facilitation2 — facilitator
Trust · group readiness★★some
Disclosure · what is sharednone
Everyone draws a playing card and wears it on their forehead without seeing it, then plays a scene. Everybody can read everyone else's status but not their own, and you learn what you are from how you are treated. Guesses come at the end.
Hold with care
- Being treated as low status by a whole room without knowing why is the mechanism, and it is a genuinely uncomfortable experience that some people will recognise from outside the room
- Nobody can opt out of their card once it is on, so the choice has to be made before it goes on
- This needs a debrief: what people did to each other on the strength of a card is the material, and leaving it unspoken leaves it in the room
Practical
- Time
- — min
- Group
- 4–∞ · small-group, large-group
- Settings
- in-person
- Materials
- A pack of playing cards and a way to fix one to each forehead
- Mechanisms
- perspective-taking, feedback-mirroring, emotional-processing
- Change scope
- state → skill · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- xn--dramavningar-8ib.se/kortlek-med-status — Dramaövningar.se, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
Source link checked 1 Sep 2026 — reachable
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Origin
Martin Wiss (published as 'Martin' on dramaövningar.se) — Swedish dramapedagogik
In this directory via Dramaövningar.se
Related: Status Mingle (deepens)
status: checked · added 2026-09-01