exercise · all tools
Community Appreciations
Depth · what it can open●●○○2 — reflective
Holding · facilitation1 — host
Trust · group readiness★★some
Disclosure · what is sharedoptional
Standing in a circle, a sub-group is named — facilitators, men, women, 'people who attend every damn event' — and steps into the middle, and three to five people appreciate a member or the group for what they brought. Repeat until every part of the community has been in the middle. For the end of a retreat or training.
Hold with care
- Naming sub-groups by gender or role puts people into categories in public; the manual's examples are affectionate, and whoever chooses them decides whether that holds
Practical
- Time
- 10-20 min
- Group
- 6–∞ · large-group
- Settings
- in-person
- Mechanisms
- ritual-container, 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
Seen first at the Integral Center — Integral Center; carried into Authentic Relating (Authentic Relating Games Manual, 2025 edition)
In this directory via Authentic Relating Games Manual
status: checked · added 2026-08-31