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Family and those who work with families

The Book Club Game is an excellent way to spend quality family time as it builds family bonds through a uniquely paved conversation that accomplishes many needed goals at the same time. Family members read or share the same book to begin play, facilitating reading time as a priority. Throughout the strategies of the game family members must listen closely to the answers given by each person about the story and their own lives so that all can comment on each turn. In this way the game facilitates “equal expression time” where a respectful and supportive conversation takes place fostering an appreciation of differences as well as similarities of viewpoints. When the family shares in this way through the activities of the game they build strong comprehension skills, communication skills, and a genuine understanding of the purpose of reading as the deeper meaning and connecting threads of each story unwind. Because the game’s questions focus on the story shared relating to the players’ lives during the week they are playing, the game is dynamic and changes with each week. Family members learn so much about each others’ ideas, emotions, and experiences in a short time through the literature as players discuss the settings, characters, themes and plots of their week at hand along with those same elements of the story shared. The result is an enlightening and revealing conversation where family members are delighted and surprised to learn what they didn’t know about each other.

Family Counselors, Psychologists, Social Workers, and others who work with families will find The Book Club Game to be an invaluable tool and resource.

Model of Communication

The dynamics of the game enable the family to feel what it is like to communicate in an equally shared speaking, listening, and commenting venue where answers build upon listening closely. This positive communication setting is what so many families need to learn to do and the game provides and sustains that venue offering respect to each member.

Bibliotherapy

Because you can play with ANY story you can use a book that perhaps is about a person or family sharing the same issues as the family being counseled as a source of inspiration or a new way of looking at an old problem (bibliotherapy).

Please email contact for a book list of just these kinds of books including picture books for all ages that can be read at one session and used for play.

Diagnostic Tool

The game can be used as a diagnostic tool for the counselor as much is revealed about each person through their responses to the story elements, shared experiences about their lives, and through their reactions to the other players’ responses. In addition to the major comprehension levels, the game also covers all of the emotions as they relate to what was read and the player’s own week events. The reactions of the players to the events of her/his week and to the characters and plot do certainly reveal many key behaviors and insights into that person’s paradigm and keys of understanding that can be vital to effective therapy.

Resource

The game provides the counselor with a resource to give the family to use at home that will promote positive family time, teach and reinforce positive communication skills, build comprehension skills, and engage the family in reading, which will highly benefit the children and parents alike. The game offers the family two amazing book lists of literature where many of life’s issues are uncovered. The questions in the game are an invaluable resource that empower parents and children to dig deep gathering the meaning and purposes of each story. As these generic questions are internalized a heightened awareness of connections and universals evolves revealing how literature is but a reflection of life where much can be learned.