WordTrails™ Founder's Edition, Signed copy (Not numbered)

"I would like to better understand what is going on, and I would like to be able to help. I'd like to be a better friend, partner, coworker, guide, leader, follower - and I am not sure what is needed. Would you help me?"

WordTrails is a game that is a tool, or a tool that is a game, created by explorer, adventurer and guide, Scout Wilkins.

Scout is a 70 year old woman who has guided all her life, from the mountains and deserts of California, to the high country of Idaho and Montana, and now in the red rock country of southern Utah and the desert coast of southern Mexico.

WordTrails emerged organically out of Scout’s very real need to find a way to get her clients to be able to be more honest about what was actually true for them, so she could do a better job as a guide.

This game/tool provides a place to explore the relationships that make up life - relationship with self, others, and life itself, in an environment so safe that allows exploration without the usual limits of guilt, shame and judgment. 

It is your chance to safely explore your world - inner and outer. Solo, or with friends or others.

In the quiet of your own thoughts and feelings, what is true and what is possible? 

When all the other voices are silenced, what turns out to be true for you?

When all the other voices are silenced, what turns out to be true for me?

As we stand here together in this new space of openness, curiosity and desire to understand, what turns out to be true and possible for us?

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When you can't get out onto the trail, wandering through the woods together, you can enjoy the magic of that experience from home.

WordTrails is a tabletop game which feels wonderful to play and opens the door to conversations that may have been difficult or even impossible to have. There is lightheartedness and laughter...and also great tenderness with new understandings that emerge. 

In this way, WordTrails walks a fine line between game and tool, perfect for people moving together into unknown territory. 

• Families blending, shifting, and changing in all ways: Newlyweds, Graduates and their families, divorcing couples and their children, anyone facing the loss of a loved one.

  • Veterans returning to their families, and the families re-expanding to take them in.

• Leaders of a company and the teams that they are leading, as they take on a daunting and exciting new project. 

WordTrails will bring a group or team to be able to consider, admit and talk about current conditions, able to truly share the intricacies of what is going at both emotional and physical levels, with strong spirits. Whether things can be explained and talked about, or simply held quietly in love and compassion, seemingly impossible conversations are back on the table.

As an eight year old player said after playing with her mother, "I like this game. I can tell people how I feel without having to say it." 

WordTrails is made up of action cards, possibility chips and trinkets. The trinkets are really the key to everything...the trinkets, and the one key distinguishing rule of this game: No explanations are expected or allowed. This is a space where everyone is free of needing to explain anything.

As players take turns adding chips and cards to the trails being built, everyone holds a few special trinkets. When someone plays a word or action that feels true or meaningful to you, you can place your trinket on it – a quiet way of saying “that feels real to me too.”

The magic happens when all the trinkets have been placed. These special pieces – the ones that touched different players – come together to form new patterns and stories in remarkable ways.

WordTrails makes an exquisite and beautiful gift for people you care about who are going through big life events.

This is a signed copy of the exclusive Founder’s Edition from our very first production run. Only 1,500 copies exist worldwide. (Note: This copy is signed but NOT part of the numbered, limited edition of 250.)

This game was lovingly printed and hand assembled by KP Printers in Renton, WA.

Buy WordTrails today and bring home a delightful experience of exploration, while giving your friends and family an adventure they will cherish, play and re-play for years to come.

You can see many more images, examples and video instructions for game play, and read what people have to say about their experience at wordtrails.com.

5% of proceeds of WORDTRAILS™ Founder's Edition will be donated to Playa Viva's community initiatives and the Tortuga Viva Sea Turtle Sanctuary.