Sundial Coaching Card Template
by ShuffleKit
A free, editable coaching card template at tarot size: printable question cards and exercise cards in six colour-coded categories, with a matching back. Each question is set large in a serif face on a pale card under a coloured header that names its category with its own symbol: Values, Strengths, Goals, Obstacles, Action and Reflection. An optional follow-up question sits under a short rule. The header and keyline take the card's Category colour, so a new category is one option in a column, not a new design. Exercise cards add a time pill and numbered steps. Comes with a thirty-card sample deck: twenty-four questions and six exercises, all original.
- Designs
- 3
- Sample cards
- 30
- Card size
- Tarot — 2.75 × 4.75 in
- 69.9 × 120.7 mm · 825 × 1425 px at 300 DPI
- Card fields
- Name
- Follow-up
- Category
- Time
- Steps
Adding a template copies its designs, fields, and sample cards into your own project. Your copy is yours, and later changes by the author never touch it.
What’s in Sundial Coaching Card Template
Three designs: Question Card, Exercise Card and Card Back.
Your cards live in a sheet, one row each, with a column for every field the designs read: Name, Follow-up, Category, Time and Steps. 30 of those rows arrive filled in, so there is something on the design before you type a word.
Read the 30 sample cards
| Name | Follow-up | Category | Time | Steps |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What would you do this year if nobody was watching? | Values | |||
| When did you last feel completely like yourself? | Where were you, and who were you with? | Values | ||
| What do you refuse to compromise on? | Values | |||
| Which of your habits would your younger self be proud of? | Which would surprise them? | Values | ||
| What do people ask you for help with? | Strengths | |||
| What comes so easily to you that you forget it is a skill? | Who else could use it? | Strengths | ||
| Describe a problem you solved that you are still proud of. | Strengths | |||
| When do you lose track of time? | What are you doing in those hours? | Strengths | ||
| On a scale of one to ten, how close are you to the life you want? | What would move it up by one? | Goals | ||
| What would you like to be true a year from today? | Goals | |||
| Which goal have you been carrying around for too long? | Is it still yours? | Goals | ||
| What would success look like by the end of this month? | Goals | |||
| What keeps getting in the way? | Obstacles | |||
| Which story about yourself would you like to stop telling? | What would you say instead? | Obstacles | ||
| What are you waiting for permission to do? | Obstacles | |||
| If this obstacle were a teacher, what would it be teaching you? | Obstacles | |||
| What is the smallest step you could take tomorrow? | What time will you take it? | Action | ||
| Who could help you with this, and when will you ask them? | Action | |||
| What will you stop doing to make room for this? | Action | |||
| How will you know you have kept your promise to yourself? | Who will you tell? | Action | ||
| What surprised you about this week? | Reflection | |||
| What did you learn the hard way, and would you do it differently? | Reflection | |||
| What are you grateful for that you rarely say out loud? | Who needs to hear it? | Reflection | ||
| What has changed since we last spoke? | Reflection | |||
| Five values | Values | 10 minutes | 1. Write down ten words that matter to you. 2. Cross out five. 3. Rank the five that are left. 4. Ask which one your calendar shows most. | |
| Best day | Strengths | 15 minutes | 1. Describe your best working day in the past year. 2. Underline every verb. 3. Circle the verbs you would happily do again tomorrow. | |
| One year letter | Goals | 20 minutes | 1. Write a letter dated a year from today. 2. Describe what went well, as if it already happened. 3. Read it aloud and mark the sentence that moved you most. | |
| Worst case, best case | Obstacles | 10 minutes | 1. Name the step you keep putting off. 2. Write the worst thing that could happen. 3. Write the best. 4. Write the most likely. | |
| Next three steps | Action | 5 minutes | 1. Write the goal at the top of a page. 2. List three steps, each under an hour. 3. Give each step a day and a time. | |
| Three good things | Reflection | 5 minutes | 1. Write three things that went well today. 2. Next to each, write what you did to help it happen. 3. Repeat for a week. |
How to use coaching cards in a session
- Lay the question cards face down, or pick out one category if the session has a theme. The client draws a card and reads the question aloud.
- Let them answer before you say anything. If the answer is short, read the follow-up under the line to take it one step further.
- When a question opens something worth working on, bring in an exercise card. It lists a few steps and how long they take, so it fits the session or goes home as practice.
Printing at tarot size
Tarot: 2.75 × 4.75 in, 69.9 × 120.7 mm, 825 × 1425 pixels at 300 DPI.
On the Hobby plan, export a print-ready PDF with bleed and cut lines. PNG and SVG come out at the same size, which is what Tabletop Simulator wants. On Indie, send it to a print-on-demand partner through Print & Ship.
A printer asks for an eighth of an inch of bleed on every edge on top of those numbers, so this card goes out as 900 × 1500. The export adds it. Let the artwork run into the bleed and keep the text inside the cut line, and nothing arrives trimmed.
Questions about Sundial Coaching Card Template
Everything you need to know before getting started.
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What questions go on coaching cards?
Open questions, one to a card, that can't be answered with a yes or a no. Sundial's 24 sample questions are spread over Values, Strengths, Goals, Obstacles, Action and Reflection, four to each, and half of them have a follow-up for when the first answer comes out short. Replace them with the questions you already ask in sessions.
How many cards should a coaching deck have?
There is no fixed number. Enough that a client rarely draws the same question twice is a good start, which for weekly sessions is somewhere past forty. Sundial starts with thirty: twenty-four questions and six exercises. Each new row in the sheet is another card, so the deck grows without any design work.
Can I make a printable coaching deck to sell?
Yes. Put your own questions in, put your name or your shop on the back, and on the Hobby plan export a print PDF with crop marks and backs lined up for double-sided printing. That PDF is what a printable deck is sold as, and PNG exports of single cards make the listing photos.
What happens when I add Sundial Coaching Card Template to a project?
The three designs, the five fields and the 30 sample cards are copied into a project of yours, with the fields already pointed at the design. Nothing stays linked to this page afterwards, so the author's later edits never reach your copy.
What size does Sundial Coaching Card Template print at?
Tarot size: 2.75 × 4.75 in, 69.9 × 120.7 mm, 825 × 1425 pixels at 300 DPI. Those are the numbers to hand a print shop, and the ones to check a sleeve against.
Is Sundial Coaching Card Template free?
Yes. Adding it, editing it, filling it with your own cards and playtesting it online are all free. Exporting print files starts on the Hobby plan, and Print & Ship through The Game Crafter is on Indie. No template sits behind a paid plan.
Can I change the designs?
Yes. They land in your project as ordinary layouts, so you can drag an element somewhere else, put your own art behind the frame, restyle the type or rename a field. Edit a design once and every card on it follows.
Can I use my own cards instead of the samples?
Yes — the samples are rows in a sheet, and they are there to be overwritten. Type over them, add rows of your own, or bring a CSV and match its headers to the fields.
Can I sell a coaching deck made with Sundial Coaching Card Template?
Yes. This one is ours, and you keep commercial rights to what you build from it, crowdfunding and retail included.
Ready to make your own coaching deck?
This template is free, and so is the editor it opens in.