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OH Cards Quick-‐Start Guide

OH Cards

are a genre of metaphoric associative cards. This handy

guide introduces you to the OH Cards genre, offers a few OH Card

activities, and provides links to additional resources. Please feel free

to share it with friends, clients, and colleagues, in print or digital

format – with all four pages included in full.

imagination through a variety of interpretations. OH stretches our

capacity to listen and to respond, to really hear each other without

judgment or competitiveness. OH is a way for people to exchange

feelings, fantasies, and ideas within a framework that protects

privacy and vulnerability. In a round of OH, everyone wins.

Contents

OH Genre Basics

OH Etiquette

Activities Using the Original OH Deck

Activities Using Any OH Deck

An Invitation to Share Your OH Experience

OH Websites

Contact Information

Each deck can be used on its own or in conjunction with any (or all)

of the other decks. Unlimited variations are possible. Easy-‐to-‐follow

instructions for play and work are

included with every deck.

OH Genre Basics

The term

OH Cards

refers to both the genre and a specific deck of

cards within the genre. The genre includes all the different OH

decks.

is also the name of the very first deck in the genre, often

called

original OH,

to distinguish it from other cards in the genre.

OH Cards look like a simple game, but in truth they’re a many-‐

faceted cross between a game and an ever-‐changing book. They

stimulate creativity and communication. They’re a tool and a

springboard for the imagination, suitable for adults and children of

all ages for a wide variety of uses, from therapy to art creation,

family play, and corporate team training.

The OH Cards are not a soothsayer’s

prop. There’s a temptation to “ask

the cards a question.” We prefer to

believe that the answers to our

problems lie within ourselves,

within our own perceptions and

interpretations. Fundamentally, OH

Cards are about our subjective

sovereignty, where nobody can tell

us how to feel, how to interpret our

perceptions, or how to decide who

we are. We do that for ourselves.

Decks can be used in many ways,

not restricted to the variations

offered in the inserts, in books about OH, or on the OH websites. It’s

up to OH Card users to decide what form their activity will take.

ECCO

OH can be used as a co-‐creative, cooperative activity designed to

enhance communication, encourage expression, and stimulate

There are currently 18 different OH Card decks and two books about

OH. The original OH deck is available in 22 different languages.

OH Etiquette

There are no set rules that must be followed when using metaphoric

cards. The guidelines recommended below foster the development

of an atmosphere of trust. Ely Raman, the creator of the original OH

cards said, “When these guidelines were experimentally set aside

during the test-‐phase of OH, the spirit of love and communication

and the feelings of trust and acceptance quickly vanished.”

OH Cards are not meant to be interpreted literally. The essential

spirit of a picture placed on a word is an interpretation of intuition

and the feeling it evokes. Interpretations may be contradictory,

paradoxical, or ambiguous.

ROUND-‐UP (For 2-‐12 people)

Round-‐Up is a good warm-‐up for

OH. It’s a silent form of visual art,

with no explanations, comments,

or responses. Place 8 or more

word cards face up in the center

of the group. The first person

picks a picture card and places it

face up on the word card that

seems to make the most

appropriate combination. Each

person, in turn, places that same

picture on any of the 8 word cards

to make a combination. The same

ORIGINAL OH

word card may be used by

different people. Once everyone has used the picture, a new picture

card is drawn and used in the same way.

Round-‐Up Variations

The picture card can be used as a “bridge” between two or more

words, thereby making a more comprehensive statement. Another

variation is to make a brief statement when playing a card, related

directly to the combination. In another variation, after each round

there are brief questions and answers about the criteria used to play

a card. It doesn’t matter if a discussion develops and the cards are

forgotten. In a round of OH, the journey is the goal. Round-‐Up

shows how OH Cards can be catalysts for generating mutual

understanding.

In OH, we honour each other’s privacy.

•

I may choose to pass, to not play the cards I have drawn.

•

I can do this with or without explanation, revealing my cards

or not.

In OH, we honour each other.

•

I will not interrupt you.

In OH, we honour each other’s intelligence and imagination.

•

I do not re-‐interpret (or interpret) your cards.

In OH, we honour each other’s integrity.

•

I do not contradict you or argue about your interpretations.

•

I try to remember that there are no “correct” interpretations

of the pictures, no misreading of words.

In OH, we honour each other’s individuality.

•

When I interpret my OH Cards I do not assume that you see

what I see, feel what I feel, read what I read.

Activities Using the Original OH Deck

The original OH consists of two decks, each with 88 cards: one of

miniature watercolours that refer to aspects of our daily lives and

one with words that provide a backdrop for the paintings. There are

7744 combinations of words and images possible. Viewed one per

day, it would take over 21 years to view all possible combinations.

In combining word and picture, the original OH Cards address the

whole person by stimulating both the left and the right brain. The

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MOSAIC

Place one picture card on a piece of blank paper. If that painting

were only a part of, a detail of, a larger picture, what would the

complete picture look like? What’s happening outside the edges of

the picture? How does the painting continue beyond the limits of

the card?

the voices of the participants become familiar, and the flavour of

different imaginations creates a special and convivial potluck

experience.

Younger children enjoy this variation since it doesn’t require a wide

vocabulary. Instead of describing the cards, they can simply

elaborate on the picture by drawing beyond it with crayons.

Tips and warnings

Don’t think too much. Use the first phrase that comes to mind.

Make your statements personal, using the words “I,” “my,” or “me.”

Keep statements in the present tense.

Activities Using Any OH Deck

OH STORIES (For groups)

OH Stories

is a simple way to become familiar with the cards. (If

using the original OH deck, at first use only use the picture cards.)

OH Stories Variation

Do the same process with the original OH word cards included, or

with word and picture cards (from any deck) combined. If using

word and picture cards combined, say something that contains the

word itself, the sense of the word, or the opposite of the word.

PROBLEM – SOLUTION

•

Shuffle the cards and place them face down.

The first participant chooses a card, turns it face up, and makes a

simple statement about it (for example, for a picture of a spade

leaning against the wall of a house: “I go into the garden to dig

up the flower bed”). Use only one sentence – no more!

The next participant draws a card, places it face up next to the

previous participant’s card, and makes a simple statement that’s

no more than one sentence and that’s related to what the first

participant said (for example, for a picture of a laden donkey:

“... to work two bags of manure into the soil”).

The next participants follow in the same way, going around and

back again until all the cards have been used.

Before starting a round, you can agree on a story title or theme.

Participants receive or take 5 cards, which they examine in private.

The first person lays one card face up on the table, describing briefly

a problem portrayed by that image. Any other participant may offer

a card and an explanation as to how it points to a possible solution

to that problem. This card is laid down next to the first one.

The person who offered the card to the first participant now

addresses a new problem by laying down a card and describing it

briefly. A solution may be offered, as before, by any other

participant with any other card. This continues until all cards in the

hand have been played. It is important that all participants have the

opportunity to address both problems and solutions.

All the sentences will add up to a story – a strange and often

hilarious one. Perception and fantasy combine to erase boundaries,

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This activity will obviously lead to differences of opinion and to

discussion, for in problem-‐solving there is usually more than one

option. In the process of discussion the cards may be forgotten. At

the conclusion of the discussion, participants may ask themselves,

“What have I learned? How did I contribute?“

An Invitation to Share Your OH Experience

Notes

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The community of OH users spans the globe. Because of OH’s

undogmatic nature, the genre has become a valued tool worldwide,

used in many ways, by many different kinds of people, and in many

areas of work, play, therapy, and creativity.

Since the 1980s, people using OH have shared their experiences to

help each other discover new ways to benefit from using the cards

in their work and in their lives. We invite you to join us.

We share OH Stories on the OH Cards Institute website. The mission

of the non-‐profit OH Cards Institute (OHCI) is to gather and share

studies and resources – including academic papers, articles in the

popular press, videos, and more – with OH users around the world.

If you have an OH experience you’d like to share, or if you create or

hear about a resource regarding OH Cards that’s worth sharing,

please let us know (see the contact information below).

OH Websites

OH Cards Institute (non-‐profit): www.oh-‐cards-‐institute.org

Sharing OH studies, stories, and resources worldwide

OH Cards North America: www.oh-‐cards-‐na.com

Connecting OH users in North America

OH Publishing and International: www.oh-‐cards.com

International publication and distribution,

coordination of worldwide seminars and workshops

Contact Information

OH Cards Institute and OH North America:

Grace Kerina, grace@oh-‐cards-‐na.com

OH Publishing and International, OH Cards Institute:

Moritz Egetmeyer, info@oh-‐cards.com

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