exercise · all tools
Best Friends / Mortal Enemies
Depth · what it can open●○○○1 — informational
Holding · facilitation1 — host
Trust · group readiness★any
Disclosure · what is sharednone
Everyone secretly picks a 'best friend' and, on three, gets as close to them as possible; then a 'mortal enemy', and gets as far away as possible; then tries to keep the friend between themselves and the enemy. Chaos, laughter, and bodies moving among bodies.
Practical
- Time
- 5-10 min
- Group
- 6–∞ · large-group
- Settings
- in-person
- Mechanisms
- somatic-awareness
- Change scope
- state · 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
Experienced by the author at an Integral Center event — Movement game; carried into Authentic Relating (Authentic Relating Games Manual, 2025 edition)
In this directory via Authentic Relating Games Manual
status: checked · added 2026-08-31