exercise · all tools
Appreciation Hot Seat
Depth · what it can open●●○○2 — reflective
Holding · facilitation1 — host
Trust · group readiness★★some
Disclosure · what is sharedoptional
A volunteer takes the seat and everyone else says what they appreciate — things experienced in them, or intuited — while the person occasionally rates, one to five, how hot it is to hear. Five to ten minutes each. 'Super edgy', the manual says, for those who find receiving appreciation hard.
Practical
- Time
- 5-10 min
- Group
- 4–∞ · small-group, large-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Mechanisms
- feedback-mirroring, dialogic-encounter
- Change scope
- state → skill · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- authrev.org/ar-games-manual — Authentic Relating Games Manual, paid
- Availability
- In the source document — the instructions live inside the material linked, on its terms
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0 (Authentic Relating Games Manual)
Source link checked 31 Aug 2026 — unchanged since we recorded it on 29 Aug 2026
This directory describes and points home; the instructions stay with the people who made them.
Origin
Submitted by David Betz-Zall and Laureli Shimayo (Authentic Seattle) — Authentic Relating (Authentic Relating Games Manual, 2025 edition)
In this directory via Authentic Relating Games Manual
Related: Hot Seat (variant-of)
status: checked · added 2026-08-31