DCI Card Game
69,000 UGX · 8 Miles
Sixty questions that open a conversation, with friends, family or a group.
Own your healing
Tools that put healing back in your hands
A mental health initiative equipping individuals and communities with a physical wellness toolkit and an AI-powered early warning system for earlier support and intervention.
Find your path
Start where you are.
DCI can be a toolkit, a training path, a measurement system, or a way to sponsor access. Choose the entry point that matches what brought you here.
Own your healing
I am ready to own my healing.
Three tools that give you somewhere to start. Everything works on paper, so a conversation can happen anywhere, with anyone, without waiting for an appointment.
Reflection Journal
100,000 UGX · 1 Mile
A year of guided pages that trace where your patterns came from.
Mood Tracker
31,000 UGX · 1 Mile
One colour a day, twelve months to a page you can read at a glance.
Want all three? The full toolkit is 200,000 UGX and earns 10 Connection Miles.
Not sure where to start? Take the free Blueprint Assessment and see what the patterns say.
The Prevention Model
Most crises are preventable. DCI works upstream.
Mental health emergencies rarely come out of nowhere. They follow a pattern: pressure, signals, a support gap, then crisis. DCI's ecosystem targets the first three stages so the fourth rarely happens.
01
CONNECT
Pressure Builds
Daily stress, unspoken emotions, and isolation pile up with no safe outlet.
02
EQUIP
Warning Signals
Mood shifts, withdrawal, and behavioural changes go unnoticed or unnamed.
03
UNDERSTAND
Support Gap
Communities lack tools, language, and confidence to respond before things escalate.
04
RESPOND
Crisis
When everyday pressure becomes a clinical emergency, the cost, human and financial, multiplies.
DCI intervenes at stages 1 – 3 so this rarely happens.
Prevention is cheaper, kinder, and more effective than response. DCI puts tools where pressure builds: homes, schools, clinics, and community spaces.
The Philosophy
Our Mission
DCI exists to shift mental health from a passive service model to an active, self-led journey.
Through our ecosystem of tools, education, and community support, we're building a world where mental wellness is accessible, sustainable, and rooted in human connection.
- Offline Toolkits enable reflection, conversation, and healing even without internet access.
- Digital Wellness Library delivers practical, bite-sized learning.
- Conversation Clinics: Transforming how communities talk, listen, and support each other's mental health.
- Community Champions & Partner Trainings equip local leaders to guide healing safely.
- DCI Angels & Monthly Missions activate volunteers to bring wellness into everyday spaces.
Help individuals and communities own their healing while building resilient, accessible mental health ecosystems.
Ownership doesn't replace support: it makes support stronger.
Ann Banya
Early Child Development Specialist · 40+ years
Recognised infrastructure
40+ years of experience started this journey
DCI is built on four decades of behavioural practice, not an emerging idea. Every toolkit, clinic, and training carries decades of behavioural-health experience behind it.
Trusted alongside
- UPFMH
- Butabika National Referral Hospital
- Ministry of Education Uganda
What this makes possible
Small tools, real moments of connection.
DCI works best when it gives people a concrete way to begin: a prompt, a page, a check-in, or a trained person who knows how to hold the space responsibly.
Field note
Support feels less abstract when people can hold the next step.
Before
People know something feels heavy.
During
A card, page, or trained guide gives the moment shape.
After
The next support step becomes easier to name.
School group
A counselor opens a circle without asking students to explain everything at once.
The card prompts create enough structure for quiet students to participate without turning the room into a formal therapy session.
Recovery space
A weekly check-in becomes easier to repeat.
Mood tracking gives the team a shared language for patterns, triggers, and small shifts that might otherwise go unnoticed.
Community venue
A trusted place becomes a gentle entry point for support.
Instead of waiting for people to find a clinic, DCI helps bring conversation tools into spaces people already visit.
The DCI Wellness Toolkit
Physical tools for conversations people can actually start.
Designed for homes, schools, clinics, youth groups, and community circles where support needs to work without perfect internet, expert language, or a formal therapy room.
Every tool is measured in Connection Miles™ , our way of tracking the real connection each purchase puts into the world.
QR access to low-data digital resources.
10% supports training and donated kits.
Conversation Cards
DCI Card Game
60 conversation cards that open the doors you've been keeping closed. Play with friends, family, or use them solo alongside your journal. Start light, go as deep as you're ready for. Each card is a question worth sitting with.
Compiled by Ann Banya, Early Child Development Specialist, 40+ years of experience.
8 Connection Miles™ 8 lives impacted
69,000 UGX
Get this tool Guided Reflection
DCI Reflection Journal
A year-long emotional healing journey, guided by Ann Banya. Each month explores a different stage of your development, helping you understand where your patterns, habits, and feelings actually came from. Because healing starts with understanding your story.
1 Connection Mile™ Your life, on the map
100,000 UGX
Get this tool Daily Awareness
DCI Mood Tracker
12 months. Daily check-ins. One colour at a time. Track how you actually feel, not how you think you should feel. Look back weekly or monthly and start to see your patterns: what triggers you, what restores you, what your stress has been trying to tell you all along.
1 Connection Mile™ 1 life tracked
31,000 UGX
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The full toolkit
Card Game, Reflection Journal, Mood Tracker, and QR access bundled for everyday self-awareness, group facilitation, and community support.
Complete kit
200k UGX
10% funds community champion training.
Draw a card
Start a conversation people actually want to have.
Every DCI conversation card carries a real prompt, not a therapy question, just an honest one. Draw one and see what surfaces.
60 cards Solo or in a group No screens needed
Get the card game “ 07 / 60
What are you using to get through a normal Tuesday, and is it actually working?
Coping DCI Card
“ 12 / 60
Who was the last person you told the whole truth to, and how did it feel?
Honesty DCI Card
Tap the card to flip
The DCI Ecosystem
Built for the places care already happens.
DCI is to mental health what Airbnb is to hospitality: we don't provide the support directly. We build what community support runs on.
Tools layer
Physical toolkits and digital resources that make self-reflection accessible.
Conversation layer
Facilitated clinics and trained champions turning individual awareness into group support.
Referral layer
Responsible pathways to professional care when community support is not enough.
Sponsor a toolkit
10% of each toolkit sold funds community champion trainings and donations.
- 01
DCI Offline Toolkit
Physical Tools & Guides
Journal + Mood tracker + Conversation cards. Low-tech, high-impact tools for daily reflection and community conversation.
- 02
Digital Wellness Library
Self-Led Learning
Short, low-data learning modules building emotional literacy and coping skills for self-led mental wellbeing.
- 03
Conversation Clinics
Wellness Meet-ups
Facilitated peer-support spaces for storytelling and reflection to reduce isolation using the DCI card-game.
- 04
Community Champions
Partner Trainings (T.O.T's)
Training local leaders to use DCI tools, fostering emotional safety and community support without professional reliance.
- 05
Program Design
Implementation Support
Helping organizations design and implement sustainable mental wellness programs grounded in cultural context.
- 06
DCI Angels
Volunteer Squad
Volunteers supporting wellness through monthly missions via community outreaches in everyday spaces.
- 07
Provider Network
Mental Health Services
Responsible referral options for professional support, complementing self-led and community-based approaches.
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Connection Miles
Venue Partners
Transform your venue into a certified wellness hub. Drive traffic. Build community impact. Create recurring revenue.
Running a school, company, or NGO?
See how organisations use DCI to build internal wellness infrastructure their people actually use.
Get involved
There is a place for you here
Whether you are a venue owner, mental health professional, volunteer, or sponsor, there is a place for you in the DeeperConnection ecosystem.
Venue Partner
Turn your café, studio, or space into a certified wellness hub hosting DCI clinics.
Apply now →
DCI Angel
Join monthly missions, support clinics, and help deliver emotional first aid.
Join squad →
Provider Network
Join our responsible referral network and collaborate on trauma-aware care.
Join network →