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Postcard from May
Write a short message from your future end-of-year self about what mattered most.
10–15 min2+ peopleIndividual
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Set the room up for success.
Materials
- Index cards or paper
- Pens
- Optional envelopes
Before you begin
- Decide whether participants keep their cards or whether you will return them near the end of the year
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What to say
“Imagine it is May and the year was meaningful, even though it was not perfect. Write a short postcard from that future version of you to the person sitting here today.”
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Facilitator notes · Do not project yet
Keep it comfortable and useful.
Make room for everyone
- Allow typing, drawing, voice notes, or dictation.
- Make sharing optional and keep the full postcard private.
- Use ‘end of year’ rather than a specific month when calendars vary.
Watch out for
- Avoid language that assumes the year will be easy or fully controllable.
- Do not collect private postcards unless participants clearly consent.
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For the group
Here’s what to do.
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Display three future-looking prompts.
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Give participants five quiet minutes to write a postcard beginning with ‘Dear August me…’
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Ask them to underline one action, boundary, or relationship that helped the year go well.
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Invite optional partner sharing of only the underlined sentence.
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Keep going.
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Have participants keep, seal, or schedule the postcard for a later return.
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Prompt 01
I am glad you kept making time for…
Take a moment to think. Passing or writing instead is always okay.
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Prompt 02
The thing that mattered more than you expected was…
Take a moment to think. Passing or writing instead is always okay.
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Prompt 03
A small choice that changed the year was…
Take a moment to think. Passing or writing instead is always okay.
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Prompt 04
Please remember that…
Take a moment to think. Passing or writing instead is always okay.
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Wrap it up
One last thought.
- What deserves protection before the year becomes busy?
- What would make this intention easier to remember?