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Spin The Bottle Topical Circling

Depth · what it can open●●●3 — emotional
Holding · facilitation2 — facilitator
Trust · group readiness★★some
Disclosure · what is sharedrequired

A bottle in the middle of the circle; whoever it points at picks a topic and the group circles it for four minutes — relationally, never conceptually, and anyone who hears it drifting draws a small circle in the air with a finger and the speaker comes back to now. The bell rings, the bottle spins again. Invented by participants of a circling training; played with up to twenty-five.

Practical

Time
15-120 min
Group
4 · small-group, large-group
Settings
in-person
Materials
A bottle or other spinnable object; a bell
Mechanisms
dialogic-encounter, open-awareness, feedback-mirroring
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

Organically invented by participants of Authentic Revolution's Boston Circling Training — Circling; Authentic Relating (Authentic Relating Games Manual, 2025 edition)

In this directory via Authentic Relating Games Manual

Related: Circling (variant-of)

status: checked · added 2026-08-31