Authentic Relating Game Night (Exploring Assumptions in Connection)

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.