WordTrails® For Family Transitions
What do all these have in common?
Newlyweds wanting to stay in synch…
Busy parents wanting to stay, or get back in, touch…
Teens and parents needing to navigate shifting roles and power dynamics…
Sandwich generations, caught between needing to care for the up and coming generation and their aging or elderly parents…
Hospice decisions, loss of a child, entry into an intense health crisis…
They all call for big conversations
that maybe no one knows how to start –
or feels ready to.
This is a gap WordTrails stands ready to bridge.
Let WordTrails be the place where the conversations begin.
For the new dynamics opening up.
The newlyweds, the going to a new school, the teen hitting their major physical/emotional shifts, the emerging adults heading off into the world, needing to establish a different relationship with their parents…and the parents, needing to adjust to a very different life with the family going thier own ways…
The conversation can be: Let’s get to know one another, as we are now. Let’s see who we are, separately and together. Let’s appreciate one another in the light of these new conditions.
For the day to day maintenance of connection.
The busy couple who can get caught up in the spin and never find the time to sit quietly and be still together.
Consider making a regular time to come together and share your day using WordTrails.
Use WordTrails as a tool that either can invoke, when there’s a feeling of disconnection, or a wishing for more. “Let’s play a quick game”
For the hard times, the big losses. The illness, the loss, the prickly interactions, the anger…
Open with one tiny step, a single action card picked at random. “I hug”… “I consider”… I listen
Pick any action, it makes no difference. Start with that, and build together a single chip at a time. No one has to know anything. Which is a really good thing because really, none of you have been in this place where you find yourselves, and now you are all here together, finding your way.
What if you could let WordTrails do the heavy lifting so you can all just show up and see what’s here? See how each other feel, watch the evolution as you share more and more openly, realize new truths as you do, and take the steps toward one another as a unified team, more ready to face what has shown up in your world.
Finding the words
“I like this game,” said Presley, “I can tell people how I feel without having to say it.”
From Presley’s mom:
I didn’t quite know how or even if this game would impact my relationship with Presley. It has.
Pres and I got our package of this newly printed game, we opened it, not really knowing what we had in front of us. Turns out, what we had was a tool, a key, that I didn’t know we needed, and it unlocked something inside of Presley. She sat on the floor with me. All these chips with different words out in front of us, and she started building. Without reading directions, or having any instruction at all, Presley grabbed a chip here then a chip there.
Before long it was clear she was saying something I hadn’t ever heard from her and didn’t know existed inside my daughter. It was a lot to be honest. A lot of really big feelings from my then 7 year old. All said with chips, but they were here genuine feelings.
I think it made it easier for her to say the big things she was holding inside. Using this tool paved another way for she and I to communicate and express ourselves without explanation.
My hope is that this game, this tool can reach and help other families and people.
Communicating is so important and sometimes so hard at the same time. I know I struggle with it. If you or anyone else can benefit from this I really just hope to spread the word and awareness that there is something out there and it has and is working for my child.
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this! 🥰
Cindy
