Crucible Cards
85 cards. 170 prompts. 8 opening cards. 12 thematic clusters. Designed for teams ready to stop describing the future and start building it.
Solidarity Pricing
For grassroots organizations, mutual aid groups, students, and practitioners in the Global South. If the standard rate is out of reach, this one is for you. Just fill out a quick form and we'll send your link. No proof, no justifying, no back and forth. We trust you to know what you need.
What this deck is
Crucible Cards surface the structural questions organizations often know they need to ask and rarely ask out loud. The questions move from personal reflection into organizational examination. They ask about power, strategy, partnerships, programs, MEAL, finance, governance, culture, conflict, narrative, decolonization and anti-racism, and transformation.
They are built for teams ready to lock at the architecture of their work and tell each other the truth about what they see.
Why this deck exists
The questions in this deck were written from inside the work. They come from years of being in rooms where organizations described futures they were not building, named values they were not practising, and ran consultations whose results they had no intentio of being changed by.
Most organizational learning tools soften the questions to make them easier to answer. Crucible Cards hold the question long enough for your team to see what is actually there.
A crucible is a vessel that holds material under enough heat to transform it. It is also the word for a moment that tests what something is actually made of. This deck is built for those moments.
Who this
deck is for
Boards and leadership teams holding strategic conversations they have been postponing
Equity practitioners working inside organizations that say more than they do
Governance bodies examining whether their accountability is real or symbolic
Program teams asking harder questions about whose knowledge their work is built on
Consultants and facilitators who need a tool that matches the depth of the work
Communities of practice ready to examin the systems they operate within
A note on accessibility and labour
We hold two truths in tension when we price this work.
The first is that the practitioners who most need these questions are often the ones working in the most under-resourced conditions. We do not want pricing to keep the deck out of their hands.
The second is that this deck represents years of labour, learning, and lived practice. Pricing it too low would devalue not only this work but the work of every other practitioner doing rigorous justice-rooted education.
The solidarity tier is our answer to that tension. If you can afford the standard rate, paying it directly supports the practitioners who cannot.
Pricing
Pricing is structured so the work reaches the practitioners and organizations who need it, while honouring the labour that built it. All prices in CAD.
DIGITAL
Individual
$75
For consultants, facilitators, freelancers, students, and
individuals
DIGITAL
Organizational licence
Under 25 staff. $245
25 to 100 staff $445
Over 100 staff $745
Tiered by organization size. Includes internal use across
the organization.
DIGITAL
Printed Deck
$110
Professionally printed, built for repeated us in sessions, retreats, and gatherings.
DIGITAL AND PRINTED
Bundles
Individual $145
Small organization $335
Mid-size organization $535
Large organization $835
The digital licence and
a printed deck together.
Solidarity pricing
For grassroots organizations, mutual aid groups, students, and practitioners in the Global South. Self-selected, no application required. We trust you to know whether this rate is right for you.
Using the deck
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Open with the opening cards to set your agreements. Choose a cluster that matches what your group is carrying, from Power to Finance to Conflict. Draw a card, sit with the question, and turn to the follow-up when the conversation is ready to go one layer deeper. Close by naming what you heard and what you will do with it. 90 minutes to half a day, for 4 to 12 people per conversation.
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Many groups run the deck on their own. The eleven opening cards help you set up the room and agree on how you will talk before the harder questions arrive. When the stakes are high, or a conversation follows harm, someone from outside the group can hold the space so everyone gets to take part. We can be that person, or help you prepare someone from your own group.
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These questions open up what a group has been carrying, so strong feelings can surface. Use the opening cards to agree on how you will care for each other, go at the pace of the people most affected, and plan support ahead of time. If the harm is recent or still unfolding, begin with repair and bring the cards in once people are ready. Our session Repair Is a System can help with that first step.
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Yes, and we encourage it. Many groups add questions that only make sense in their own context.
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Yes. Cartes Creuset is the French edition, so bilingual groups can work through the questions in the language each person is most at home in.
Buying and licenses
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Yes. The group licence covers internal use across your organization, network, or collective, priced by group size. The individual licence is for one person using the deck in their own practice.
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Yes. The individual licence lets one facilitator, consultant, or trainer use the deck in their own sessions, including paid work with clients. Each facilitator needs their own licence, and we ask that you credit the deck as Crucible Cards by The Collective Legacy. Reproducing the cards, building them into materials you sell or give away, or sending the files to clients needs our written permission. Bringing the deck into your own program? Ask us about a partnership licence.
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Yes. For a network, a coalition, or any order of more than 10 decks, write to us and we will put together a custom quote, including bundles that pair printed decks with group licences.
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Printed decks cannot be returned. Digital decks and licences are final once downloaded. If something is not working for your group, write to us and we will find a way to make it right.
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We ship printed decks from Montréal across Canada, to the United States, and internationally. Orders leave within 3 to 5 business days. Delivery usually takes 5 to 10 business days in Canada and 2 to 4 weeks elsewhere, and shipping costs are calculated at checkout.
Working with us
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Yes. We hold sessions for teams, boards, networks, and gatherings, in English, French, or both. Book a discovery call, or ask about one of the three partner-rate sessions this fall.
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Yes. A session can include time to prepare the people who will hold the next conversation, so your group is resourced and confident to run it on their own.
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That is part of what the partner sessions this fall are for. The groups who run the deck with us help decide where the next decks should go. Subscribe to the newsletter to hear first.
One of three
This fall, three organizations will each run a full session with the deck at a partner rate. You get a team that knows how to run the cards on its own. We get your honest read on where the next decks should go.
This deck holds questions your organization has been carrying for years. If you are ready to look at them, the deck is ready to hold them with you.
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