The Relationship Game-Healthy or Toxic?

The Relationship Game-Healthy or toxic? is a powerful, engaging tool for relationship education and violence prevention. Designed to spark reflection and dialogue, it helps participants build a clearer vision of what they want—and don’t want—in a romantic relationship.

Through a simple and thought-provoking sorting game, participants learn to:

• identify what truly matters to them in a relationship;
• recognize the signs of problematic or toxic dynamics;
• detect red flags in couple life;
• establish and respect clear boundaries to protect their emotional and physical wellbeing.

Whether used in schools, workshops, or therapy sessions, this game is a compass to guide young people and adults alike toward healthier romantic choices.

OBJECTIVES

By playing The Relationship Game-Healthy or toxic? each participant will:

• Develop critical thinking about what makes a relationship healthy or toxic;
• Reflect on their own beliefs and expectations about love;
• Discover how others set their standards, and become more aware of their own;
• Learn to identify tension points, negotiation areas, and non-negotiables in relationships;
• Understand and name violent behaviors with clarity;
• Gain reference points for building respectful, balanced, and fulfilling relationships.

WHO IS The Relationship Game FOR?

• teens aged 14+
• and adults.

WHERE TO USE IT?

The Relationship Game-Healthy or toxic? is designed as a practical, adaptable resource for professionnals working on relationship education, violence prevention and sexual health.

It can be used in a wide variety of professional settings, including:

• Educational workshops in middle and high schools, universities, and training centers, student health services, as part of comprehensive sex and relationship education programs.

• Youth prevention programs in summer camps, youth group centers, family planning centers or community spaces.

• Specialized education programs for individuals with disabilities, including residential care settings where relationship and consent education is essential.

• Therapeutic spaces, including support groups for victims of violence, gender equality workshops, couples therapy, mediation, coaching, premarital counseling.

• Work with perpetrators of violence, whether in correctional facilities, probation programs, or community-based rehabilitation efforts, to help them reflect on toxic patterns and build healthier relationship models.

• Personal conversations: within couples or between parents and teens.

FOR WHICH PROFESSIONNALS?

Teachers, school nurses, educators, therapists, psychologists, sexologists, social workers, family counselors...

CONTENTS

• 90 cards;
• 12 flag cards (four green, four orange y four red);
• 1 cardboard box;
• 80-page Education Guide for educators.

SKILLS DEVELOPPED

Introspection ++
Expressing Feelings ++
Listening skills and empathy ++
Group participation +++
Self-reflection +++
Critical awareness +++