The Straight Talk Game - This fun and friendly card game is easy to play and teaches

communication and empathy skills. Players choose a card and answer the question.

Examples are...

 What are 3 things you love to do?

 What do you think your friends like about you?

 What is one birthday you'd like to forget?

 What's the craziest thing you've ever done?

 Talk about a time you felt really proud.

 What would you like to change about yourself?

 What are the highlights of your life so far?

'Straight Talk' encourages players to explore their experiences, feelings and relationships

and has a way of bringing people closer together. Adults like to play it too! The Game

includes 50 laminated cards, instruction booklet and durable storage box.

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Postcards
 Ask participants to share with a partner their name, and why they chose their
object, image, postcard, quote, key or button and temporarily trade them with
each other.
 Next they visit another person and trade that objects and story for a total of
two to three trades.
 After a few minutes of trading, the group comes back together and participants
introduce the person whose item they ended up with. I am careful to mention
that this is an experiment in active listening and not a test. It helps them to
know that their fellow group members will help them out if they don’t get
everything right in their “report out”.
 I invite the sharer to hand the object back to the person and welcome them to
add any additional information or clarifications to the introduction given.