exercise · all tools
Body Love
Three minutes appreciating three parts of your own body aloud, one minute to set any boundaries — 'don't speak about my stomach, arms or breasts' — and then your partner appreciates three parts of you, slowly, checking whether you are full. Then swap. The manual calls it deeply healing for body shame through the simple power of witnessing, and files it among the edge games that work even between strangers.
- The boundary minute is structural, and the manual's own example names breasts; a facilitator should say plainly that appreciation of sexualised parts is off unless the person invites it
- Body shame is the material and the manual says 'healing', which is a claim; a person who finds the exercise painful rather than healing needs somewhere to take that
Practical
- Time
- 15-20 min
- Group
- 2–∞ · pairs
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Mechanisms
- somatic-awareness, dialogic-encounter, emotional-processing
- 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
Not attributed in the manual — Authentic Relating (Authentic Relating Games Manual, 2025 edition)
In this directory via Authentic Relating Games Manual
status: checked · added 2026-08-31