Collaboration Cards
Card game to facilitate conversations important for well-being.
CBS well-being lab has developed a method through the use of dialogue cards divided into three themes in order to work with students well-being..
Our research has found that particularly three themes were causing experiences of stress and lack of well-being among students – issues with teamwork, feelings of inadequacy, and insecurities related to being a new students. The cards are developed to address these three topics based on research and with the aim to facilitate new conversations.
About the cards
Research conducted through the “stress and well-being among students at CBS” project has allowed us to form an understanding about the main challenges students experience. We have used qualitative interviews, focus group interviews and surveys. We saw a need for more informed knowledge and new kinds of conversations about these topics among students and people working at educational institutions. On this basis the dialogue cards have been developed as a new way to work with student well-being. Students have been involved in the development process of both content and design, and afterwards different groups of students have been testing how they work.
New at CBS
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Inadequacy
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Teamwork
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For students
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For teachers
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Examples from the cards
See under user instructions how specifically to play the game and the structure of the three themes with three rounds. Here you will find videos with four students playing a full round of the cards.
The rationale behind the cards
We believe that the current well-being challenge that we see among students in Denmark, but also for the youth globally, imply that there is a need for working with some new topics and relational and human skills in today’s society. At CBS we talk about the need for students to acquire transformation capabilities during their study years, not merely the academic and professional knowledge. This could for example concern learning more about how to collaborate constructively and to build resilience in groups, for which psychological safety is important. We present the dialogue cards as one way to work with this relational capability training among students in higher education. (FORKORT)