How to sharpen your intuition as a designer using tarot with Dr. Adeola Enigbokan

Design Feeling

#011 - It’s no secret that change is the only constant but the events of the past two years (or two months!) have certainly got our heads spinning. If you’re anxious about how all of this is going to affect your life and career, you’re not alone. So how do you make sense of your past and clarify your direction towards the future?
Sometimes, you need more than just intellect to make better decisions. You need intuition. This is where tarot can help. Tarot is basically a pack of playing cards that originated in 14-15th century Europe. Although you might have seen them used as a divination system to predict things, tarot utilises principles used in creative thinking and it can be a powerful design tool for designers to ask the right questions and find unexpected answers.
In this episode, I chat with with Dr. Adeola Enigbokan. Adeola is a designer, environmental psychologist and a practitioner of tarot for the past 20 years. We uncover the mysteries of tarot, and how the practice might increase our soft skill sets and add perspective on problem-solving in complex psycho-social dynamics. Adeola also demonstrates how she uses tarot to answer deep questions. You might be a tarot convert too after this episode.
In this episode:

• Using tarot as a tool to build your intuition to make better decisions
• Raising awareness of the emotional impact of your designs and the emotional needs of your users and colleagues
• Defining true empathy using tarot
• Starting with self-compassion
• Creating a space for people’s feelings to exist at work
• Reassessing your individual and corporate identities and realigning them
• Energy exchange as the future of work for designers

Shownotes

Salvador Dalí tarot card deck

https://www.tarot.com/tarot/decks/dali

Ten of Cups

https://www.tarot.com/tarot/cards/ten-of-cups/dali

Six of Swords

https://www.tarot.com/tarot/cards/six-of-swords/dali

Adeola’s website

https://www.whyadeolabecause.com/

Adeola on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/adeolagoes/

Adeola on LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/adeola-enigbokan/

Environmental psychology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_psychology

Tonglen meditation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonglen

Tarot for the Working Women

https://www.whyadeolabecause.com/tww

Random association technique

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_stimulus
Show credits

Illustrations by Isa Vicente

https://www.instagram.com/isadezgz/

Music by Brad Porter

https://prtr

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Chapters

1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. What is tarot and how Adeola got into it (00:02:34)

3. Using tarot as a intuition tool (00:03:40)

4. Using tarot to ask the right questions (00:12:24)

5. Adeola's journey into environmental psychology (00:14:14)

6. Connection between physical spaces and human emotions (00:18:18)

7. Increasing awareness of emotional impact of your designs (00:23:55)

8. Tarot reading: What does true empathy look like? (00:28:28)

9. Self-compassion is key (00:37:15)

10. Compassion techniques (00:41:30)

11. Changing your conditioned view of leadership (00:50:18)

12. From exchanging time for money to exchanding energies (00:55:44)

13. The future of work for designers (00:59:44)

14. Tarot reading: How designers can prepare for the future of work (01:03:32)

15. Recap (01:14:01)

16. Contacting Adeola (01:15:56)