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Co-Opoly

This board game simulates players running a democratically managed cooperative business. It allows participants to practice communication, conflict resolution, team building skills, and decision-making skills. 

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Walking in Good Relations

Walking in Good Relations is a board game that can help participants recognize scenarios that look like they are helping but are actually harmful. Additionally, it enables participants to unlearn the practice of normalizing oppressions and enact the Squamish practice of Chen chen stway (holding each other up) while calling out neocolonial scenarios of oppression.

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Mental Blocks: Understanding Different Perspectives and Privilege

This activity uses the board game Mental Blocks to help participants understand different perspectives, build empathy, and become aware of privilege and how it affects power dynamics. 

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Keep It Real Diverse Game

Keep It Real Diverse is a board game that enables participants to practice suspending judgment and asking deeper questions, recognize emotional and intellectual dimensions of more than one worldview, recognize new perspectives about their own cultural rules, and develop real connections based on deep relationships with other participants, ideally from backgrounds other than their own. 

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Figuring Out Life

This tool uses the board game CV to help participants develop an understanding of their own worldview values as well as discover their peers' values. 

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Engaging with Communication Styles Through Board Games

This tool uses Just One and Codenames to enable users to recognize different aspects of indirect communication styles. They will also develop mental empathy and teamwork skills, as well as learn how to navigate cultural context. 

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