exercise · all tools
Love Blaster
Appreciate an object in the room for a minute — then close your eyes and appreciate the feeling of appreciating. Do it again with a partner and a second object. Then two pairs meet, and each whispers to each other what they notice and appreciate about the other pair before saying it to them. Gossip inverted, the manual says: talking about what you appreciate in people, to them.
Practical
- Time
- 15 min
- Group
- 4–∞ · individual, pairs, small-group
- Settings
- in-person
- Materials
- For the Appreciation Trinity variation, a phone on airplane mode or a mirror per pair
- Mechanisms
- attention-training, open-awareness, 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
Sara Ness, for Thanksgiving Games in Austin; variations by Amy Silverman — Authentic Relating (Authentic Relating Games Manual, 2025 edition)
In this directory via Authentic Relating Games Manual
Variations in the manual: Extra Squish (silent appreciative eye contact between the pairs) and Appreciation Trinity, which ends with appreciating yourself in a mirror while witnessed.
status: checked · added 2026-08-31