This game levels the playing field, and creates safety, in an amazing way. 

It gives me a place where I am actually, truly safe.  Not safe because someone else says I am, or because I say I am, not safe because someone gave me permission to be – I’m safe because no one else can in any way make me unsafe. 

The safety is real. Actual. 

I am safe to be me, OK in myself, OK to explore myself and my relationship with others and with life in a way I have never experienced in the presence of other people.

What did you like? 

That there’s no winner or loser, and no objective.

TOP Priority 

Improving communications across my leadership team and throughout our firm is a top priority.

Thank you to our friends at WordTrails for guiding us through this experience and helping us better understand the importance of clarity, alignment, and authentic connection in every conversation. 

Philip Foss,

Chairman & CEO OPTIS Group Holding, LLC

I like this game.

I can tell people how I feel without having to say it.

Presley, Age 8

We are connected in ways we don’t fully understand.

Scout, I love this product. I love the way it encourages freeform interaction. We are a social being, and I believe we are connected in ways we don’t fully understand. WordTrails is like a navigation tool that helps us locate and explore realms we either didn’t know existed or journey safely to places we often fear to travel, but places we deeply need to learn.

For all that, I understand the challenge of getting it in the hands of people that will benefit from it. This is less about the commercial success of the product and more about reaching out to people that would be open to and benefit from this unique tool. 

Thanks for pursuing this dream. It matters.

Kindly,

Brian Lewis

Author of OGL – Open Gaming License

Chairperson and Co-Owner of Gen Con LLC, North America’s largest tabletop gaming convention

Powerful Tool for Guidance and Team Building! 

In getting ready for a challenging multi-week backpacking trip, we used this unique tool/process to set our shared intention for the trip. 

We didn’t know each other very well when we started and our “Word Trail” process was a wonderfully helpful and important way to bring us together as a team. In a fun and intuitive way, the game guided us to six key words as the core things to guide our trip.

We referred to and reflected on them a number of times during our journey when we ran into challenges. Thanks Scout for your vision and wisdom in creating and sharing this wonderful tool!

Which actually is the alternative world?

I found it very insightful into my own feelings honestly. The squirrel analogy was spot on! Also, it was great being introduced to the “alternative world” the game offered. In hindsight, it really isn’t an alternative world, but actually the world you open up for yourself closing out the influences that exist in this current world we live in! 

I am thrilled you stuck around, honestly talking to you afterwards helped open up a new view (I.e. the circle of experts and play at the center).

I appreciate it more than you know!

What was most fun about playing?

• Seeing my thoughts in visual form in a way I could physically move them, organize them, categorize them.
• Being with others, changing the way we played each time.
• Learning, imagining and growing

Euphoric

I felt euphoric for a few days after playing, and can’t pinpoint why. I simply felt freedom after playing.

I played with mostly strangers, and felt a sort of general increase in feelings of open-ness, and an increase in trust with the people at the table.

More importantly for myself especially, I noticed how certain words elicited various emotions. I also noticed how by reconstructing word circles, I didn’t even really need to understand why, but I was more quickly able to assess and address issues related to those words than before I used WordTrails. As a designer, I really like this as a tool to construct and reframe ideas quickly.

I didn’t want to stop

When I heard about the game “WordTrails” for the first time, I did not know at all what to expect. I was just told that there was no explanation needed and a lot of times, we are expecting an explanation before we are getting ourselves into something unknown.

But as soon as I started playing, I didn’t want to stop and I understood, that sometimes no explanation allows us to express ourselves more honestly. Sometimes things don’t need an explanation because it takes away the core meaning.

There are so many ways to play WordTrails. You can play it just for yourself, or with someone else, everything is possible and every game can look completely different.

I think I never played a game that made me think so much about my unconscious thinking patterns. Sometimes I felt I was stuck in these unconscious behaviors that did not allow me to unfold my full potential but the game made me realize that I have the power to change them. I just have to choose another path or another round little chip. Even if it is not always easy, the game made me aware of how I see the world and how I approach it. It is literally like a reset.

Thank you Scout for coming on my path at the moment I needed it and thank you for developing this beautiful game! I am sure it will help many more people out there! Lots of love!