Crucible Cards
170 prompts. 11 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.
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 and the transformation it makes possible.
Digital - Individual practitioner $75
For consultants, facilitators, freelancers, students, and individuals
Digital - Organizational license
Tiered by organization size, includes internal use across the organization.
Printed deck $110
Professionally printed in a sturdy box. Built for repeated use in sessions, retreats, and gatherings.
Bundles
Bundle digital + Printed
Frequently Asked Questions
Still have questions? Take a look at the FAQ or reach out anytime. If you’re feeling ready, go ahead and apply.
-
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, programmes, MEAL, finance, governance, culture, conflict, narrative, decolonization and anti-racism, and transformation. These are not team-building questions. They are questions for teams ready to look at the architecture of their work and tell each other the truth about what they see.
-
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 intention of being changed by.
Most organizational learning tools soften the questions to make them easier to answer. Crucible Cards do the opposite. They 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.
-
85 questions across twelve thematic clusters. Each question is paired with a follow-up that pushes the conversation one layer deeper. That is 170 prompts in total.
-
Boards and leadership teams holding strategic conversations they have been postponing.
Programme teams asking harder questions about whose knowledge their work is built on.
Equity practitioners working inside organizations that say more than they do.
Consultants and facilitators who need a tool that matches the depth of the work.
Governance bodies examining whether their accountability is real or symbolic.
Communities of practice ready to examine the systems they operate within.