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Congregation of Believers
One person testifies for five minutes to an 'article of faith' they used to hold and have begun to doubt — unconditional love, hard work pays, the goodness of government — while the facilitator, as Voice of God, notes the voices of doubt that surface. The others each take one as a role and debate the article, changing sides if convinced; God may call cage matches, echoes and silences. The testifier ends by saying what changed. Inspired by Internal Family Systems; built to run on Zoom as well as in a room.
- The testifier is the only person disclosing and hears their doubt argued by everyone else; the Voice of God's powers exist to protect them — the manual says use them sparingly but directively
Practical
- Time
- 30-60 min
- Group
- 4–16 · small-group, large-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- Post-its or a chat window for the emerging perspectives; name tags or renamed video tiles for the roles
- Mechanisms
- perspective-taking, dialogic-encounter, cognitive-reframing, creative-expression
- 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
Sara Ness and Kip Dooley, during a Rising Practitioners lab — Authentic Relating (Authentic Relating Games Manual, 2025 edition); draws on Internal Family Systems
In this directory via Authentic Relating Games Manual
status: checked · added 2026-08-31