The Wayfinding Deck
A Companion for Navigating Seas of Change
In a world full of noise, Wayfinding offers a sanctuary to hear yourself again.
When life feels like too much—too many changes, emotions, expectations, and responsibilities—it’s easy to lose contact with the part of you that knows what’s true.
Not the striving, pushing, problem-solving part—that part is usually very loud. This is connecting to the quieter, wiser, kinder voice within.
When you’re carrying a lot, you don’t need more strategies or self-improvement plans.
You need a place to lay things down.
A place where the pressure softens, the nervous system settles, and what’s already moving in you can finally be heard.
The work isn’t to do more; it’s to make space for what’s already unfolding.
Instead of asking, “How do I fix this?” Wayfinding asks, “What is ready to be acknowledged, held, or understood, and how can I move with that?”
Instead of forcing clarity, we create the conditions where clarity naturally arises.
The Deck and Wayfinding practices aren’t meant to speed you through transition. They are companions for slowing down enough to meet the truth that’s waiting inside you.
Begin in Sanctuary
The best way to enter the Wayfinding world.
Sanctuary Sunday is a free, twice-monthly gathering where we slow down, breathe, and listen beneath the noise. It’s a 90-minute space for renewing rest—not the collapse that comes when you’ve reached the end of your capacity.
You’ll meet the Wayfinding Deck and experience how working with the cards helps you tune into the quieter, wiser voice inside—the one that already knows how to move
Other Ways. . .
The Wayfinding Deck (coming in 2026) — A quiet companion for reflection, self-tending, and more meaningful conversations. Your own private sanctuary for listening beneath the surface.
Wayfinder Readings—Quiet, intuitive listening on your behalf. A written sanctuary that offers grounded clarity, gentle truth, and the wise/kind perspective you may not access on your own.
Facilitated One-on-One Sessions (coming in 2026) — guided conversation and co-regulation using the Deck as a companion for deeper truth-tending.
Because sometimes the next step isn’t about trying harder. It’s about softening enough to hear the voice within that already knows the way.
Sanctuary Sundays
Twice a month, we gather for Sanctuary Sunday—a spacious hour and a half to soften, breathe, and return to yourself. Rest not as collapse, but as renewal.
Come rest with us and clarity will find you.
Coming January 2026
The Wayfinding Deck is a way to listen beneath the noise—beneath pressure, performance, and the world’s urgency to fix, decide, and move faster.
It’s a quiet companion that helps you slow down and attune to the wiser, kinder intelligence that becomes audible only when you have the space to hear it.
Each card invites you to:
Soften the internal intensity so you can feel the calm that lives underneath reaction, overwhelm, and overthinking.
Release old fears of safety and control, making room for what’s ready to fall away and for the renewal that naturally follows.
Step out of urgency and into rhythm, allowing your timing to unfold rather than be forced.
Restore right relationship with your energy— learning when to act, when to rest, and how to honor the pace your body and spirit are asking for.
This is not a tool for prediction, productivity, or self-improvement. It’s a practice of presence.
A way of creating sanctuary inside transition.
A way of listening to the deeper currents of your life so the truth that’s been waiting within you can finally rise to the surface.
When you listen beneath the noise, you return to the voice that always knows the way.
When everything feels noisy or overwhelming, it becomes hard to hear the deeper truth inside you. In those moments, self-doubt and self-criticism are often the loudest voices.
A Wayfinder Reading is a written sanctuary — I listen with the Wayfinding Deck on your behalf and reflect the gentle clarity already waiting beneath the noise.
It’s ideal when you feel stuck, afraid, or far from your own wise, kind voice.
You don’t have to find sanctuary on your own.
I’ll help you return to it.
When your inner clarity feels far away, you can borrow mine for a moment.
Facilitated One-on-One Sessions
Sometimes you can feel something shifting, but you need support to stay with it, so you don’t return to a past that’s already complete or move toward a future that isn’t yours.
In 2026, I will begin offering one-on-one live guided Zoom conversations with the Deck, where we listen together for what’s emerging. I will send you a Deck and together, we’ll formulate the questions you want to ask, you will draw cards and we will discuss what you’re noticing. It’s a space of co-regulation, curiosity, and gentle movement — perfect when you’re in transition and want a companion to explore the terrain with you.
Fill out the form below if you’re interested in a session when I open them in early 2026.
I’m Michele Martin—a social artist and the steward of the Wayfinding Deck, a living, symbolic toolkit for meeting transition and uncertainty with imagination and care. After years of work helping organizations and individuals navigate professional change, I’ve returned to the creative, human-centered practice that first called me: making spaces where story, symbol, and shared reflection help us navigate life’s turning points.
Through the Wayfinding Deck, Wayfinding gatherings, one-on-one sessions, and Wayfinder Readings, I create sanctuary spaces where you can slow down, tell the truth about what’s shifting, and listen for what wants to emerge next. My hope is that you leave this work feeling less alone and more resourced to live and lead with imagination and care in uncertain times.