Therapeutic Games
Freedom Within invites you to go on an adventure of REVELATIONS
A fun and exciting board game for children and adults of all ages, facilitating self-awareness and interpersonal communication.
Revelations is available in English, Hebrew, and Spanish.
Revelations recently received a five star rating in Israeli Magazine "Haim Aherim".
About Revelations
REVELATIONS is a therapeutic tool for teachers, therapists and parents. The game was created in England by Arvick Baghramian (B.A. Hons., C.Q.S.W., Play Therapist, NLP Pract.), a personal growth teacher and therapist specializing in working with children, and was developed with the help of several children.
The idea for this game arose from therapeutic work with children who were presenting behavioral problems of different kinds, either at school or home, and particularly children who had difficulty communicating themselves.
For all of us, talking about our emotions and feelings is often hard. Children in particular find it difficult to communicate themselves, especially when experiencing some sort of emotional distress. Sometimes it is because they are afraid to share it, but other times it is simply because they are not aware of it. REVELATIONS is specifically designed to help children of all ages to communicate their thoughts and feelings.
How to play?
In REVELATIONS, the player moves around the game board, following instructions on each square landed on. Some squares instruct the player to answer a specific question, while when landing on other squares, the player picks up a picture cared and tells a story about its content. All along the way, other players may use special question mark cards to ask the player up to three questions about his or her story. Every player who enters the CASTLE OF WISHES proceeds to make three wishes. The player who reaches the castle first, wins the game.
The game can be played by 2-4 players and takes about one hour or less to complete. It is possible and even advisable to play the game more than once. In addition, there is no need to complete the game over one session. It is possible for the game to be completed over several sessions, or over a long period of time.
The REVELATIONS picture story cards can be used separately as part of a group building exercise with children or adults and may also be used as prompts for enactment or role-playing games with groups.
How does it work?
Like the TAT (Thematic Apperception Test) and the Rorschach inkblot test, REVELATIONS makes use of projective techniques and story telling, to allow children to open up at their own time and on their own terms.
The term projective refers to a concept originated by Sigmund Freud. In Freud's theory, unconscious motives are responsible for much of our behavior. Projection is a psychological mechanism by which a person unconsciously projects inner feelings onto the external world, then imagines those feelings are being expressed by the external world toward him or herself.
Unlike many therapeutic tools, which use intellectual and logical means to measure what a person knows, thinks and feels about the world, projective tools such as Revelations are designed to be open-ended and to encourage free expression of thoughts and feelings. In addition to the various questions appearing on the hand drawn and colorful board game, REVELATIONS incorporates 20 picture cards depicting various scenes which are especially effective in helping children to open up and share their personal stories.
Story telling is an art, which has proven to be an effective therapeutic tool. Stories can elicit, within a few hours, information that could be gleaned only over an extended period of time, granting us in-depth understanding of the child or adult's current needs, motives, emotions, and conflicts, both conscious and unconscious.
Who is Revelations for?
The game is ideal for therapists, teachers and people working with personal growth techniques, for work with either children or adults, in a variety of forms and settings, either for individual or group work.
REVELATIONS is ideal when having to work in a setting where space and resources are limited. It helps to provide a readily available focus for helping to communicate and understand the child's world and experience. The use of story-telling and sensitive questioning can also assist in building up trust between the adult and the child and may accelerate and help expand the professional's knowledge of the hope and fears encountered by the child in a non-threatening fashion.
REVELATIONS is also extremely helpful for parents who are either experiencing some sort of communication difficulties with their children, or simply wish to know their children better. The game is especially designed to helps parents gain a deeper insight into their child’s inner world in a gentle and non-intrusive way. Each game includes a manual with instructions for effectively using the game and constructing gentle and effective questions.
REVELATIONS can be sad and moving, as well as adventurous, illuminating, and good fun, and offers an enjoyable experience for all.
Description
Each game includes:
- Game board
- 32 cards (20 picture cards and 12 question mark cards)
- An instruction booklet
- 5 animal-shaped counters
- 1 pair of dice
Acquired skills
- self-awareness
- emotional expression
- language skills
- empathy
- listening skills
Courses
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