practice · all tools
B.G.D.V.F. Connection
Depth · what it can open●●●○3 — emotional
Holding · facilitation0 — self-guided
Trust · group readiness★★some
Disclosure · what is sharedrequired
Two people share, in order, a brag, a gratitude, a desire, a vulnerability and a fear from the day or the time since they last met, each with its own sentence stem. Written by a partner who found that doing it nightly brought a couple closer; the sequence walks from easy to exposed.
Hold with care
- The last two stems ask for a vulnerability and a fear; designed for people who already share a life, and the manual offers no facilitation because it assumes none — between newer acquaintances, treat it as the disclosure exercise it is
Practical
- Time
- 5-10 min
- Group
- 2–∞ · pairs
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Mechanisms
- narrative-identity, dialogic-encounter, emotional-processing
- Change scope
- state → skill · recurring-practice
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
Surelys Galano (Boulder and Los Angeles groups) — Authentic Relating (Authentic Relating Games Manual, 2025 edition)
In this directory via Authentic Relating Games Manual
status: checked · added 2026-08-31