Choose Your Relationship

Topic
- Health
- Language
- Puberty & sexuality
Learning skills
- Self-awareness
- Empathy & social awareness
- Relationship skills
- Creative thinking
- Communication & expression
Activity type
- Group discussion
Materials
- Basic
- Printable downloads
Age
- 6 - 11 years
- 12 - 14 years
- 15 - 17 years
- 18+ years
>15 minutes
2 - 4 players
Intermediate
Calm
Small (office, pavement)

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Everything you need to play this game

Choose Your Relationship game board (HEALTH E3) Download choose-your-relationship.pdf (3mb)
Post-its

A step-by-step guide to play the game

Cover all the images of the six columns with post-its.

Ask one of the players to take away a post-it from the first column and one post-it from the second column. The player will now get two characters. He/she starts creating a story with those two characters.

Then, ask the player to take a post-it from the third column, the relationship column, and from the fourth column to decide which kind of interaction the characters have. The player continues his/her story, including the chosen elements.

The player now takes a post-it from the fifth and sixth column and finishes his/her story.

Give the player the time to summarise the story and ask for possible alternative versions of this story. Discuss with the other players before continuing the activity with another story.

Extra game information

This activity is a part of the StreetSmart sexuality package. The package aims to give youth workers the tools they need to address the topic of sexuality in a playful way with the children and young people they work with, so they can learn to make conscious, healthy and respectful decisions. Sexuality is a very broad term, encompassing various subtopics. Here, you can find a list of all activities included in our sexuality package to address these different topics:

Sexuality in general: The Sex Alphabet, The Sexuality Goose Game, Yes or No Circle, Sexuality Statement Game
Body (development): Anatomy fundamentals, Who has what?, Physical changes in puberty, Emotional changes in puberty, Life Cycle
Boundaries: Stop!, People to People, Kiss the Teddy Bear, Body Carrousel, (Not) Okay?, Body Twister
Relationships: Choose Your Relationship, My Ideal Partner, In The Worst Way Possible
Gender & sexual orientation: Labels, Sex Change, Who does what?
Safe sex: The Synonym Game, Condom Smugglers, Goodie Bag, STD-Roulette, Can I get pregnant?
Sex & media: Who is responsible?

If you are a StreetSmart Wheels partner, you can use the sliding door panel to cover this panel and ask the players to open a window of each column.

Variations

Role-play: Divide the players in 2 groups. Group 1 will choose one picture from each column and invent a short theatre play with it. After enacting it, Group 2 has to guess which pictures were included. Then, the groups switch.
Open one window of column 1, 2, 3 and 4. Then ask the player if he/she approves or disapproves of the relationship or if he/she feels neutral about it. Also ask if he/she thinks the character in the relationship took a forced, impulsive or conscious decision. Visualise the answers by covering up the other images in column 5. Then ask the player how he/she feels about the relationship/interaction and visualise that answer in column 6.

Specific learning objectives

Explore and reflect on different types of relationships

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