Future Focused
We! Connect Cards™
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Welcome to the home of the Future Focused We! Connect Cards. Below you’ll find a variety of exercises designed to help you spark conversations that bring tomorrow into focus.
Each section highlights a different way to use the cards, inspired by the The Contribution Method. This is the framework that Chad Littlefield, the creator of the deck, uses to design every gathering, whether virtual, in-person, or hybrid.
“Must Know Before You Go”
About The Deck
The Future Focused We! Connect Cards are designed to spark conversations that actually create and edit the future. All in ways that feel natural, energizing, and practical.
Questions Color Code
🟪 Purple Cards → Possibility questions (what’s next, what’s possible)
🟦 Blue Cards → Process questions (how things happen, dynamics)
🟩 Green Cards → Practical questions (action, implementation)
What’s on the back?
60 Ingredients to Make the Future Feel As Easy As Cracking Open a Fortune Cookie
On the back of each card you’ll find a visually illustrated word—an “ingredient for the future.” Each word is designed to be a spark for conversation, reflection, and fresh ideas. You’ll see the activities below often make use of both sides of the card.
Get Going
Activities & Strategies
🎥 = linked video tutorial
1. Unofficial Starts
- 🎥 Word Collisions
Each person picks a card when entering. Pair up and discuss how your two words combine, collide, or intersect. This simple exercise sparks thought-provoking dialogue right from the start. - I’m feeling… ?
As people arrive, invite them to pick a card with a word that represents how they want to feel throughout the gathering. Keep it top of mind as an anchor for the session. - 🎥 You Pick Two
Invite participants to choose two cards/words that if combined would transform their year. Get into groups of 3 and discuss how and why. Extend this exercise by then answering the questions on the back to make those concepts come to life.
2. Context Hooks
- Inspiring Intentions
Ask participants to pick a card back that represents an intention. Use the “so that” formula: state your goal or objective + add “so that” + what matters most to the people affected. Then, use the question on the back to bring that intention alive. - 🎥 Alphabetize
This is a quick, fun energizer to get a group working as a team. In pairs or small groups, count out 20 cards. The challenge: alphabetize the words as quickly as possible. First team done wins! Variations: sort by number of letters, color hue, or other patterns. A quick, playful energizer. - 🎥 Choice of Worlds
Invite each person to pick one card word as a lens for the gathering or a filter for what you see, notice, or listen for. “A choice of words is often a choice of worlds.” Option: you can also have the group select one word for everyone. - Word Market
Each person grabs 3 cards. For two minutes (max), trade with others until you land on a set of 3 words that feels most useful to you. If unsatisfied, head to the “word bank” (a pile of extras). Then, in small groups, invite each person to share their response to one of the questions on the back. - Question Filter
Choose a word you think will serve you best for the next 90 days. Throughout the session, ask (or answer) every question through the lens of that word. This helps increase “perspective diversity”.
3. Connection Before Content
- 🎥 Talking Into Tomorrow
Invite participants to complete this phrase: “We are here to talk our way into a tomorrow filled with ______.” Then, pair with someone you know least and answer: What inspired you to choose that word? - 🎥 Conversational Lottery
Everyone gets a card and pairs up. Person A asks their card’s question, Person B answers, then vice versa. After both have shared, swap cards and raise your hand to find a new partner. Continue for 10–30 minutes. If a pair feels like they’ve hit the “conversational lottery” (the right person, right time, right conversation), they are welcome to sit down to go deeper. - 🎥 Time Travel
Invite each person to pick a word relevant to your group, team, or organization. In trios, share how that word showed up in the past, how it shows up in the present, and what you’d love it to look like in the future. Invite everyone to personalize their responses to fit the context of your gathering. - Edited Questions
Hand out cards and ask participants to reframe their question to make it more empathetic, sharper, or more relevant to the context. Then, use their “edited” version in the conversation. Pro tip: this can be easily done by simply adding context to the end of the question (see this video for more).
4. Content—Designed for Contribution
- 🎥 Contextual Questions
Pick a question and add context to make it more relevant. Example: “What are you currently prioritizing most… at work? …at home? …related to our company values? …this month?” - Future Focus 3×3 [Download Printable PDF Directions]
Intent: Kickoff with a conversation that just might edit what happens outside this room.
Step 1: Scatter the deck around the table with the question-side face down.
Step 2: Pick 3 words from the back of the cards that represent key ingredients your team needs to succeed over the next 3 months.
Step 3: Flip the cards over and choose one question that is most relevant. Form groups of 3 to ask and answer your question for 15 – 30 minutes. - Priorities (3×3 Grid)
Lay out nine Future Focused We! Connect Cards in a 3×3 grid. Invite players to work alone or together to rearrange the columns so the words move from most important to least important for them, their team, or their organization. Once the grid is reordered, have them share the reasoning behind their top priorities and notice where their rankings align or differ. - Ingredient Auction
Invite everyone to mingle, pair up, and attempt to “auction” off the word on the back of their card by pitching why their word is most vital for the future. After each person shares their pitch, they are invited to find a new partner and try out a new way to make their pitch even more compelling. Continue for a few rounds, and then invite the group to volunteer the person with the best pitch they heard to offer their pitches to the whole group. - Idea Incubator
In groups, draw cards and brainstorm new initiatives inspired by your words. Use the card’s questions to fuel deeper, more practical ideas. Goal is to go through as many cards as quickly as possible to generate lots of fresh ideas.
5. Closings
- 🎥 Quick Future Edit
Choose a card as your theme for the next 15 minutes, hour, or day. Keep the time horizon short. After everyone selects a word to serve as a theme, invite people to answer the following question in the chat or with a partner: What would you most love to happen in the next 30 minutes related to your word? - 🎥 Calendar Questions
Invite people to pick one question they love and literally schedule it into their calendar for journaling when they’ll have the most impact. Pro tip: do it with a voice command (“Hey Siri…”) to remove friction. - Now What?
Each person draws a green (practical) card. Pair up with an accountability buddy, answer the question, and share what action step you’ll take after leaving the room. - Future Forecast
In groups of 3, draw a card and forecast how your word might shape your future (or the future). For a more introvert-friendly option, invite journaling instead of discussion. - Dynamic Reflection
Everyone chooses two cards at random and answers: How did you see your word(s) show up in our group today? Share in small groups or as a whole. - Lightning Round
Rapid-fire: each participant draws a card and shares one actionable step they are willing to take to create a better future. - Debrief Choice of Worlds
Revisit the Choice of Worlds activity. At the end, ask: What did you notice related to your world throughout the day?
Go Further
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