Albany Relating Games Meetup Group

How accurately do you know how you come across to other people?
This evening is a hands-on practice in sharing observations and giving and receiving feedback in real time, with room for surprise, encouragement, and the closeness that often grows when honesty is met with care. Through structured relational games, you’ll experiment with concrete skills—separating observation from interpretation, naming impact without blame, asking for what you want to know, and hearing how you land with curiosity rather than defense.
Because giving and receiving feedback can be intensely vulnerable, we’ll move slowly, work with consent, and place explicit attention on respecting and caring for one another as we practice. This is not therapy and not a debate. It’s a supported skills lab for learning how to stay in connection while truth is in the room.

How do your own expectations shape what you notice, assume, and conclude about other people?
This workshop focuses on helping participants become aware of the specific, often implicit expectations they carry into interaction—and how those expectations shape perception in real-time relating. Through structured Authentic Relating games, you’ll experiment with noticing your own assumptions, testing them gently in interaction, and distinguishing between what you are perceiving and what you are projecting.
This is not a dialogue about social positions or belief systems. It is a practice in first-person awareness: learning to see how fear, hurt, habit, and history influence how you interpret others, and how increased accuracy can soften oppositional patterns in everyday relationships.
We’ll move slowly, work with consent, and prioritize care, since examining core assumptions can be vulnerable. The aim is not agreement or repair between groups, but developing the personal skill of noticing and revising the lenses through which we relate.

What becomes possible when honesty and care stop being opposites?
This two-part series blends Authentic Relating with practices informed by the principles of Nonviolent Communication to help you experience real connection while building concrete skills for speaking truth with clarity, warmth, and responsibility. Week one offers a grounded introduction to the core principles with light, playful practice; week two deepens the work with more challenging exercises that stretch your capacity for presence, listening, and clean self-expression. The aim is not performance or perfection, but honesty with grace—learning how to name what’s real without harm, and to meet others without losing yourself.

What becomes possible when honesty and care stop being opposites?
This two-part series blends Authentic Relating with practices informed by the principles of Nonviolent Communication to help you experience real connection while building concrete skills for speaking truth with clarity, warmth, and responsibility. Week one offers a grounded introduction to the core principles with light, playful practice; week two deepens the work with more challenging exercises that stretch your capacity for presence, listening, and clean self-expression. The aim is not performance or perfection, but honesty with grace—learning how to name what’s real without harm, and to meet others without losing yourself.