Workshops/Groups

The Birth of Peace Cards for Humanity ™

A structured, creative approach to emotional processing and forward movement.

Tripp’s unique offering:

“Peace Cards for Humanity”tm

“Peace Cards grew out of both personal loss and professional insight. I was listening to the Huberman podcast featuring Dr. Ethan Kross, author of Chatter, where they were discussing ways to work with the inner voice and process difficult emotional experiences. They mentioned expressive writing therapy and the idea that writing for as little as 15 minutes a day can be helpful. But it also made me think about something very simple: as human beings, we naturally resist effort. We tend to conserve it. 

 After my father passed away when I was 17, the support I received was traditional talk therapy. I committed to it for over two years, and while it was helpful, it was also emotionally demanding, time-consuming, and difficult to sustain. That experience stayed with me and shaped the question that would later guide my work: how can healing be made more accessible, more humane, and less intimidating?

 As I developed my curriculum, I wanted to create a method that would ease people into processing grief, trauma, and emotional pain. Drawing from sensory integration, perception psychology, color work, and my background in design, I created Peace Cards as a structured yet intuitive tool.

 The system uses cards based on sound, color, smell, and timeless symbols of forgiveness. Participants choose 4 cards, either randomly or intentionally. Here is the powerful thing about Peace Cards for Humanity: You don’t need to have the right words to begin! We start with image, color, and guided prompts, a simple way to access what is often hard to articulate.

Using simple materials like watercolor, colored pencils, etc., music can be played, candles can be lit, notes can be written, and conversation can unfold naturally. The process creates a gentle buffer—space to feel, reflect, and express yourself. Unlike talk therapy, writing therapy, or even collage, this process results in a tangible image. It does not have to look like anything. But it becomes a record of how the participant felt on that particular day. They can keep it, frame it, put it on the refrigerator, share it with someone they love, post it online, throw it away, or even burn it in a fire if that feels meaningful. The point is that it exists as a real expression of an internal experience.

Just as we go to the gym to train for strength, endurance, or a race, these are exercises that help train us to let go of what is no longer serving us—the pain, the hurt, the guilt, the unresolved weight we continue to carry. Forgiving ourselves is not easy. Healing does require effort. But perhaps that effort can be made more humane, more sensory, more creative, and more compassionate.

We are three-dimensional human beings. It makes sense to me that grief should be addressed more dimensionally as well—through sensory integration, color, sound, smell, and symbols of forgiveness. These tools may not erase pain, but they can offer comfort. They can create movement. And they may help us heal a little faster, or at least a little more gently, especially in areas such as disenfranchised grief, trauma, and self-forgiveness.”

-Cynthia Tripp

RELEASE & REFLECT
Process anger, grief, and internal pressure through guided creative expression.

PROCESS & CLARIFY
Get clear on what’s actually happening beneath the surface.

GROW
Create simple, realistic next steps that fit your life.

FLOURISH
Take action, adapt, and build momentum.