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Philippa Thomas uses OH Cards in an inpatient hospitalization setting to help suicidal adolescents recognize their emotions, and the images bring life and visability to feelings that they have trouble verbalizing.

Eric Brunet, a psychotherapist in France, uses OH Cards to help a client with problems in the workplace gain a new perspective.

Therapist Pei Li Yeo uses OH Cards as a non-threatening approach for helping clients bring up deep information that they would not be sharing otherwise.

Rosemarie Somaiah of the Asian Storytelling Network shares experiences of using OH Cards in her work as a professional storyteller, author, and educator. “I was first introduced to OH Cards by Kiran Shah and Sheila Wee, who used them in storytelling workshops. Kiran promoted the use of OH cards here in Singapore, where I met Moritz Egetmeyer, the OH Cards publisher, when he facilitated the workshops. However, it was only when I began to …”

Expressive Arts Consultant Fay Wilkinson uses OH Cards with students in an expressive arts program, as a storyteller, and to explore depression with seniors.

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Mural reproductions of five of John David Ellis’s art pieces from his OH Cards deck colourfully adorn the outside of an apartment house.

In Christine Gatineau’s article, she introduced associative OH Cards and their process of bypassing the mind to allow advancement into the depths of the psyche.