EMOTIONAL RESCUE COMMUNICATION & CONNECTION GAMES
ABOUT OUR GAMES & HOW TO PLAY
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We offer a new way to connect with co-workers, friends and family, even with strangers. Specifically designed to DE-STRESS during these challenging times, these games offer a profound resource for us to come together for engaging, intimate and healing conversations about our feelings, experiences, fears and realities.
Use on the phone with friends, co-workers and loved ones, play at home with family and friends, form one off, or ongoing Zoom or Google Hangout Groups, do a Facebook Live, or utilize on any other platform you desire, whenever you desire! Each game comes with Instructions.
A number of these different games might relate to your life experiences. Please feel free to move back and forth between, and to play any and all of these games that relate to you and to your experiences.
We hope they bring you joy, comfort and healing!
ZOOM HEALING GAME NIGHT SESSIONS!
(Paused until September. Please check back)
- Comfort Talk "Sessions" with Therapists Leslie & Rob -- every Monday night from 7:15 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. EST
- Recharge Re-entry Game "Sessions" with Jeff Deskovic, Leslie Robinson & Shawanna Vaughn every Tuesday night from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. EST
- Shelter in the Storm Addictions Recovery "Sessions" with Leah Hodous and Jaime Derleth (Recovery Coaches) Tuesday and Friday nights at 8:00 p.m. EST
- Diversity & Equity Game Nights Hosted by Ron Jones & Leslie from 7:00 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. every Friday night
Coming Soon
- Couple's Game Night "Sessions" with Marriage & Relationship Experts
- HealthCare Workers "Sessions" with Healthcare Specialists
- Loss & Remembrance "Sessions" with Grief Counselors
"We all have a beautiful light within. We just sometimes forget it is there"
- John Holland
NOTE REGARDING DIVERSITY & EQUITY:
We hope to make people understand that "diversity" is not just colors and religions, and sexual preferences. I would hope that through this game we can help people to understand the deep and complicated nature of having "Marginalized Status" and all the different forms that it can take.
Realities like poverty, low wages, lack of education, insecure housing, pre-existing health conditions, unsafe working conditions, and so on are tragically much more pronounced due to the pandemic. The weight the disenfranchised bear, has been greatly exacerbated on by this pandemic.
There is a quote from a recent article that we think goes a good distance to express what I hope people can keep in mind and learn from through this experience:
Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different.
It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it.
An Excerpt from Arundhati Roy's: 'The pandemic is a portal' Printed in the April 3, 2020 edition of The Financial Times
We do not want things to "go back to normal." Normal was not good enough for far too many. The inconvenience, discomfort, and tragedy that so many "regular" folks are working though right now can give you some insight into what living life with painful limitations is like. If you look beyond your own inconvenience, you will find people at the same painful intersections as you. Many you may not recognize, even though you have always needed them. Others you have never had reason to think about. There is much you can learn from them.
We also highly encourage you to prepare for the next wave. The mental and emotional pandemic. We are creatures of habit. Forced change does not suit us in the short-term. But we can flatten the emotional curve by reflecting deeply and processing our experiences with one another across all divides, so that together we can all connect to forge a more just, equitable world for us all to co-exist in TOGETHER! - Ron Jones
DISCLAIMER
Although these games have therapeutic qualities, they are not meant to be a substitute for professional therapy. They are meant to be a vehicle through which you can have enjoyable healing conversations and dialogue. If you are feeling overwhelmed by the ongoing pandemic or any life situation, please seek immediate professional assistance.