1871: A Time Before

1871: A Time Before

Where Story Meets Self-Discovery.

Step into the dusty streets of 1871 and discover yourself anew. This isn’t just another coaching tool, it’s a journey through time.

Each card drawn from our Old West-inspired deck reveals not just a character or place, but a mirror to your own story.

With millions of possible card combinations, no two journeys are ever the same. Each session creates a unique narrative landscape to explore, just as the frontier offered endless possibilities to those brave enough to follow their dreams.

1871: A Time Before, weaves storytelling with self-discovery, creating a space where reflection feels as natural as conversation around a campfire.

More than a deck – It’s a toolbox for transformation

Whether you’re coaching a client through change, guiding a team through challenge, or sitting down with your journal on a quiet morning, 1871: A Time Before is designed to meet you there.

These cards aren’t just for coaches. They’re for storytellers, educators, therapists, leaders, retreat hosts, facilitators, creatives, and anyone curious about their inner world.

Individuals & Self-Explorers

Use the cards for daily insight, self-coaching, moon rituals, seasonal journaling, or quiet self-reflection. There’s no wrong way to enter the story.

Coaches & Therapists

Use the metaphors of characters, time, animals, and artefacts to unlock insight, soften resistance, and explore emotion from a safe, symbolic distance.

Teams & Organisations

Bring people together through creative conversation, build trust, and surface new perspectives with character dynamics, group scenarios, or location-based prompts.

Writers & Creatives

Explore backstory, conflict, archetype, and setting – or simply use a draw to beat writer’s block and spark fresh narrative flow.

Facilitators & Retreat Leaders

Craft unforgettable group experiences with draw-based rituals, story circles, reflective journaling, and metaphor-driven dialogue.

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From saloons to crossroads, echoes to animals – each card is a mirror, a nudge, a moment of possibility.
Choose one. Or combine many. Let the trail reveal itself.

So whether you’re riding solo, in a pair, or as part of a posse on a mission, infinite journeys await.

Which path will you follow?

Welcome to SageBrush Crossing

“A town that exists somewhere between yesterday and a truth you’ve not yet told.”

They say SageBrush Crossing was founded in 1871 by folks who didn’t quite fit anywhere else. People with dust on their boots and stories in their bones. The kind of people who weren’t running from something, not exactly – but knew they couldn’t stay still either.

The land was hard. The sky was wide. But they built something anyway: a town not just made of timber and sweat, but of second chances. Of quiet reckonings. Of untold truths and slow, steady change.

Over the years, SageBrush became a kind of in-between place. A town for wanderers, seekers, misfits, and the quietly wise. Some stayed. Some passed through. All left something behind – a lesson, a legacy, a question still echoing in the dust.

They say the town still stands, maybe not on any map you’ll find, but somewhere between memory and metaphor. Somewhere in you.

Every building holds a tension. Every character, a mirror. Every object you carry, a clue. And time? Well, time runs a little different here.

This is SageBrush Crossing.
And whether you arrived on horseback, by heartbreak, or by sheer curiosity, you’re right on time.

Why 1871: A Time before?

1871: A Time Before isn’t just a coaching deck, it’s an imaginative, immersive world rooted in the dusty spirit of the Old West; a time when people were forging new identities, building communities from scratch, and confronting the unknown every single day.

1871 captures the exact feeling of:

• The frontier between what was and what’s coming
• The silence between endings and beginnings
• The moment you decide what kind of character you want to be next.

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What Makes 1871 Different?

You’re not just drawing a card – you’re stepping into a story, sitting at a saloon table, meeting a wandering poet, choosing a trail at the crossroads, or reflecting beside a weathered gravestone.

Each deck offers a different dimension of self-exploration:

Seven richly illustrated coaching decks including:

1. Characters with real backstories and unique philosophies
2. Moments in Time that capture emotional turning points
3. Spiritual Animal Guides that offer intuitive reflection
4. Objects & Artefacts that act as anchors for inner work
5. Locations that hold symbolic meaning
6. Skies & Seasons that explore emotion and environment metaphorically
7. Campfire Conversation prompts that encourage deeper thinking about the challenges we often face.

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More than 6 million possible combinations

Every draw is a new trail.

When you begin combining Characters + Locations + Moments in Time + Artefacts + Animals + Campfire Conversations + Skies & Seasons, you unlock more than six million possible pathways through your inner and outer world.

This isn’t random. It’s deeply intentional play, it’s creative reflection wrapped in metaphor, emotion, and storytelling.

Whether you’re coaching, journaling, facilitating, or reflecting solo…there’s always another insight waiting at the table.

Why the Old West?

The Old West was more than dust and duels. It was a time of possibility, reinvention, and untamed space, where each day offered a new path, and every traveller carried a story on their back.

In 1871: A Time Before, we use the Old West not as nostalgia, but as metaphor – a creative landscape where you can explore who you are, what you carry, and who you might become. It’s about dusty crossroads, saloons filled with unspoken tension, and weathered faces that reflect our inner truths.

By stepping into this imagined world, you’re invited to:

• Reclaim parts of yourself you’ve left behind
• Sit with archetypes that challenge or affirm you
• Explore choices with curiosity instead of judgement
• Reflect on your inner world through story, symbol, and play.

This isn’t about cowboys and clichés. It’s about meeting yourself in new ways – with cards in your hand, and your own story unfolding like a trail ahead.