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Take a bodymind break

Nothing here needs you right now. Rest, move, breathe, or step away — whatever your body and mind want. Come back whenever you’re ready.

Bodymind — one word, because the body and mind aren’t experienced separately. We’re not minds riding around in bodies; we’re bodyminds.

Ocean waves — press play. The swells are timed to invite slower, deeper breathing.

“Ocean Waves” by Adriel Jeremiah Wool

Use this space however your bodymind needs. Sit in a chair or on the floor, pace, lie down, rock, flap, spin, move around, come and go.

Your bodymind has needs, and they deserve to be met. You are valuable, you are worthy, and you belong here.

Some ways to affirm your bodymind
  • stretch
  • flap
  • fidget
  • meditate
  • stim dance
  • body scan
  • eat
  • drink
  • pee

Cavendish Cards

A calm, no-scoring deck for naming sensory and interaction needs. Point at a card, or lay a few — no reading needed to play.

Cavendish Cards, developed by Stimpunks Foundation, come from the Cavendish Space model and the ARLES design method — ways of shaping the space around real needs instead of asking people to hide them. The cards give you pictures and words for how you feel and what helps, so you can show someone instead of having to explain. Play on your own, or with someone alongside you.
New here? Start with the guidebook.
Building a space? See the implementation guidebook.

No scoring. No points, no right answer, no winning. There is no wrong card and no wrong hand.

You choose what to share. Cards on the table stay face-down until you turn them up. Turning a card up is you sharing it.

Seven ways to play
  • Show me — pick the one card that’s you right now.
  • Build my day — start with a place, then how you feel (the weather), then what helps. A sentence in pictures.
  • Class weather — everyone lays a weather card, and the room’s weather becomes visible. No one is named.
  • Map the edges — lay your day left to right, find the hard crossings between one thing and the next, and pad each one with a lily pad so attention lands gently instead of being yanked.
  • Play as the environment — lay what-helps cards that conflict, and build one space that holds them all.
  • Moving between — lay places, interaction moods, and lily pads left to right to show how you move between alone and together across the day.
  • Build a niche — lay the what-helps that would make a space yours, with the habitat at the center, then build it — on any budget.

The deck

Choose a card to lay it on the table.

Choose a realm to focus on, or browse all.

The table

Nothing laid down yet. Choose cards from the deck above — they arrive face-down, and you turn them up when you want to share them.