The Curiosity Game

This game is a good way to introduce Authentic Relating to new people and bypasses the social barriers to connection. It can be used on first dates or with seatmates on a plane! Try it out with different timings, different pairings, and different sentence stems at the end. It’s Best done in pairs.

• Roles – Designate a questioner (Q) and a responder (R). 
• Questions – Q has 5 minutes to ask R whatever they are genuinely curious about
• It’s OK to have silence until you know what you want to ask.
• Don’t ask questions you aren’t interested in (e.g. how the weather?) 
• R can answer or decline to respond.  
• Feedback – After 5 minutes, R gets a chance to give a minute of feedback on how they felt about the questions.
• Including if there was anything they wished had been asked or anything that really struck them. 
• (option) have Q ask some questions or raise topics while R rates their personal interest in it on a scale of 1 – 5, 5 being the most interested. 
• Resume – Then, Q resumes questioning for 3 minutes.  
• Stems – When time is up, Q gives a “gift” to R of three sentence stems: 
• “My first impression of you was. . .”
• “I felt you the most when . . .”
• “What I really get about you is . . .”
• Impact – R responds with emotional impact for a minute, or shares “What I want you to get about me is…” 
• Switch – Partners switch roles, or the facilitator can shuffle up the pairs.

Credit
This game was developed by the community at AuthenticWorld.com