What's an authentic relating game?

Modern life is messy. We’re busy, we’re traumatized, we’re stuck in behavior patterns that don’t serve us, moored by relationships that drain our energy, disconnected from our full-body-yes, and unengaged by the small talk that passes for 90% of conversations.

But every once in a while some light will shine through—a deep felt aliveness in those late-night conversations that energize us for hours—the conversations that lead to personal breakthroughs, cherished memories, and lifelong friendships.

What if we told you those conversations didn’t have to be so rare?

That there was a way to access conversational flow states with reliability, to bottle up authenticity and unleash the power of connection like a glowing genie orb escaping a bottle, shining a light on everyone in the circle.

These tools exist! They’re called Authentic Relating games, and we’ve compiled all the best ones into The Games Manual–a big book of group exercises that meld the delicious engagement of deep conversation with the shadow-busting power of therapy.