Card decks and practical tools for staffrooms, coaching conversations and the harder days. Some are published through Particular Things, my card and tool studio.
Three decks that build on each other: first notice what the day is costing, then regulate inside it, then understand the system that shapes it.
Notice · Particular Things · AvailableSeventy-three cards for any teacher in their first five years, career-changers included. Each one names a moment you'll recognise, from yard duty in week two to forty report comments, with a question to sit with and one small thing to try.
Lay five face up. One will stop you before you've read the others.
Regulate · Particular Things · AvailableFifty small tasks for the gaps in a teaching day. No suits and no order, so you pull whatever fits the five minutes you have. Comes in a cloth bag that lives in a desk drawer.
Understand the system · Pattern & Thread · AvailableThe card system that goes with the Sensory Profiling Workshop: Terrain, Compass, Field Kit and Traveller, for reference long after the day.
Not every deck is for work. These are for growing up, for midlife, and for minds with their own methods.
Particular Things · AvailableFifty-six permission slips for girls aged ten to fourteen, each signed by an aunty or uncle who learned it the long way round. Permission to take up space, to outgrow a friendship, to rest, to still be figuring out who you are.
For kids who already sense they're doing life a bit differently, with or without a diagnosis.
Particular Things · AvailableCase files for minds with their own methods. Forty-two cards from an imagined department that investigates the everyday incidents of executive function, from The Task With No Door to Too Many Tabs Have Formed a Government.
The Department investigates the task, the timing and the environment. Never whether you're trying hard enough.
Particular Things · AvailableThe apology has left the building. A deck for perimenopause, when forty years of passing stops working. Built like the advice page of an eighties Australian magazine: the body writes in, and the body answers.
Every card ends with a move, something to do this week, and a track from the music page.
Particular Things is where I publish card decks and resources for neurodivergent people and educators. It has its own shop and its own voice, with oracle decks like From Here and The Bright Mess, and tarot like The Divergent Arcana.
Every deck is printed to order, so allow two to three weeks for delivery. Each one comes with a free companion website holding every card, the full text, and a way to pull one when the box isn't with you.
See all the decks at Particular Things →Write with what's happening and what you've already tried. That's enough to start a conversation.