An adequate affective education is essential for the growth path of children, who need adult guidance provided by parents or teachers. They help children think about the complexity relative to their own and others' subjectivity, and make friends with the thought process as the most powerful means of all to guide their actions.

The game

Do you agree? challenges children to think and express their skills of identification and empathy, to accompany them in a stimulating path of affective education by dealing with themes that we encounter in reality every day: love, friendship, discovery, inclusion, the contrast of stereotypes, meeting others, doubt, stumbling blocks, problem solving, generational clashes...

The game is designed for 3+ players, ages 11 and up.

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THE MATERIALS

The game consists of:

22 situation cards

19 character cards

2 narrator cards

37 voting tokens and 7 pawns

Game board

HOW TO PLAY

The narrator must interpret the situation from the point of view of the character card which he/she has drawn.  Subsequently each player asks the narrator a question, and then after careful reflection, has the opportunity to vote by placing a token on the appropriate spaces on the board.  Will the players be able to guess the narrator’s point of view and understand what he/she is thinking?

The debate

Using only the cards, it is possible to carry out a workshop activity without keeping score, in order to facilitate reflection among the boys and girls on the themes proposed in the different situations.  Each player receives a character card and proposes a debate between the characters in the game on the chosen situation.

This proposed role-playing activity will allow you to develop empathy skills and practice for the role we could find ourselves in, with different situations that could likely happen to us or to those around us.

The winner

You can play in two ways, depending on the time you have available:

From 30 to 45 minutes: the winner is the one who knows how to best put their empathic ability into play, earning points and reaching the finish line first. 

Less than 30 minutes: the winner is the one who has obtained the most points after all players have played the role of narrator once, without necessarily reaching the finish line at the end of the game board.

Educational goal of the game

The educational goal of the game is to encourage reflection with boys and girls on the most common situations of daily life that involve adolescents. To do this, players are asked to "put themselves in the shoes" of someone other than him/herself: sometimes a teenager, sometimes even an adult, while trying to interpret a point of view that will not always coincide with his/her own. The skill of the other players will consist in knowing how to ask the right questions to guess the opinion of the character which the player is representing, sensing thoughts that are not always expressed or unmasking preconceptions.

THE AUTHOR

Stefania Andreoli: Psychologist, psychotherapist and analyst, has always worked with adolescents, families and schools dealing with prevention, training, guidance and in clinics. She is president of the Alice Onlus Association of Milan. She writes for Corriere della Sera and is a guest on several radio programs. A former collaborator of the Ministry of the Interior for policies to combat gender-based violence, since January 2020 she has been an Honorary Judge in the Juvenile Court of Milan.