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Remembrance is an invitation for us to share our memories of those who have passed on, in ways that are gratifying and deeply healing.

We share and discover much more about not only what those we lost have meant to us, but what we meant to them!

There is no time frame for healing.

Healing For and Amongst:

  • Family, Loved Ones & Friends
  • Hospice & Palliative Care
  • End of a Significant Relationship
  • Young Adult / Adult Support Groups
  • Children / Adolescents & Grief
  • Grief & the Workplace
  • Caregiving & Grief
  • Dementia & Alzheimer’s Caregivers Support

Grief & Loss Support Game

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REMEMBRANCE contains gentle guided conversation questions, healing quotes on loss, drawing prompts and group interactions, appreciation heart jewels, and a pad of paper and colored pencils – for people to ‘play” with family, loved ones and friends, even strangers.

Here is the rare opportunity to remember, share and speak on many aspects of the life of the person you have lost, as well as to gain new understandings on how you have been shaped and impacted by this person’s life.


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Testimonials

“A gentle and powerful way to honor those who have moved on from your life, Leslie has created an extraordinary opportunity for players to truly process the subtle layers that accompany loss. It’s easy to think it is all one note—grief—when in reality, it encompasses the full spectrum of the human experience. The game teases out the complexities of your inner life, allowing new tones to be brought forth, whether those be gratitude, love, anger, humor, or celebration. Remembrance is a beautiful and playful way to embark on the healing journey. It even worked for people who are still alive! Those who play this game will walk away with jewels of memories, revived feelings, and vivified expressions that will bring color to their lives.”

 

                            LAURA VOGELS

 COACH + CEREMONIALIST

Strategic Intervention Coach

             Power of Story Guide

Meditation Teacher

            Altered States Specialist in Training

 LAURA VOGELS

There is no personal growth without a willingness to ask ourselves questions. Often, we fail to do so with respect to our loved ones that have passed.

Remembrance is a powerful set of questions about our loved ones, our response to experiencing their loss, and how we may honor, now and in the future, the gifts they gave us.

While playing Remembrance, I found myself thankful for being gently guided by the questions presented and the internal searching, if you will, that was healing and revealing. Henry David Thoreau once said that most men lead lives of quiet desperation. I say the right question has the power to liberate and guide us out of desperation and barrenness.

Being asked a question that requires reflection is often our best friend. I recommend Remembrance to everyone. See for yourself.

David Colwell

I cannot say enough wonderful things about the Remembrance game. I played the game with my family as we recently suffered multiple losses in our family. My husband’s mother passed in the last six months, a friend of my daughters in the last two years, and my own mother in the last three years.

I noticed that after the services everyone went back to life as usual and no one really talked about their feelings of sadness, loss or grief, or about the person. My family members were not open to grief counseling. Playing Remembrance provided a safe environment to begin the healing process. There was laughter and tears, as well as memories and storytelling. We learned about one another in the process. Anyone who has ever suffered from grief and loss should own and play this game to help with the grieving process and begin healing. Thank you for creating this masterpiece

Donna Reilly-Middleton

“It is impossible to fathom losing a child. Whether the loss of a child was expected or not, the anguish that follows is likely to feel crushing and eternal.  My name is Jovanna Marc. In 1984, I attempted to remove my son’s body from King County Hospital morgue in Brooklyn, NY after he died in a New York City daycare facility. I spent many years in and out of psychiatric hospitals. And just when I was beginning to feel like things were turning around, I lost my second son in 2015 at a correctional facility.

The death of my boys had a profound effect on my well-being, both mentally and physically. There was major anxiety about the heightened suicide risk. I went through a series of physical changes that couldn’t be prevented or remedied. Despite the passage of time, the crushing sorrow I felt after the loss of my firstborn son and then my second never faded. The death of my sons was devastating and has left an enormous void in my life. I experienced sadness, numbness, and sometimes guilt and fury. I still have a hard time getting over my grief and moving on with my life because the negative feelings linger. Eventually, I stopped trusting other people. I struggled to complete even mundane tasks. I even cut myself off from friends and family.

After years of receiving mental health services from numerous providers, I completed the Howie the Harp Peer Specialist Training Program, and I am now a Certified Peer Specialist. As someone who has faced and overcome similar challenges in their own lives and who has trained to provide services to others in need, I am able to help others achieve greater levels of independence and self-sufficiency through facilitating their own recovery, strengthening their own capacity for resilience, and facilitating their own successful community integration.

Ms. Leslie Robinson is someone I met during a community outreach event. Ms. Robinson, after hearing my story, introduced me to the Remembrance game and explained that she created this for individuals like me.  Curious, I went home and played the game with my children. The soft guided conversation questions, comforting quotes on grief, and art ideas for group discussions are all included in Remembrance. Ms. Robinson learns via her game Remembrance that just as every life is different, so, too, is every person’s experience of loss.

By creating an atmosphere of trust and acceptance, Remembrance is able to tap into profound states of soulfulness that promote healing for everyone who takes part. Remembrance is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to reflect on the life of the departed, remember the many ways in which they touched your own, and speak openly about the many ways in which their life changed your own. Ms. Robinson has learned the hard way that healing can take as long as it takes. To bring you through a hard patch, I used what I learned about the power of memory.  The soothing guided conversation questions, healing quotes on loss, sketching suggestions for group interactions, and activities in Remembrance have helped my children and I grow closer to one another. To take advantage of these rare occasions to reflect, communicate, and discourse on many facets of my boys’ lives, we have agreed to keep playing the Remembrance game.”

Jovanna Marc, Founder, Multi-Assistance Resource Center, Inc.

Jovanna Marc

When we are affected so deeply by grief, it is difficult to find the words to begin the healing journey. Not only are we suffering, but so are our loved ones around us. It is the lack of connection and understanding that can sharpen the edges of grieving, making it even more painful to maneuver.

Leslie’s deeply thought-out series of questions and activities not only brings out the joy and love we had for our loved ones, but also initiates heartfelt conversation, invoking connectivity and love. Bringing forth healing through a “game” is a brilliant way to draw out a conversation that can be uncomfortable to begin. With these doors open, healing is finally possible.”

Leah Hodous

Testimonials

“A gentle and powerful way to honor those who have moved on from your life, Leslie has created an extraordinary opportunity for players to truly process the subtle layers that accompany loss. It’s easy to think it is all one note—grief—when in reality, it encompasses the full spectrum of the human experience. The game teases out the complexities of your inner life, allowing new tones to be brought forth, whether those be gratitude, love, anger, humor, or celebration. Remembrance is a beautiful and playful way to embark on the healing journey. It even worked for people who are still alive! Those who play this game will walk away with jewels of memories, revived feelings, and vivified expressions that will bring color to their lives.”

 

                            LAURA VOGELS

 COACH + CEREMONIALIST

Strategic Intervention Coach

             Power of Story Guide

Meditation Teacher

            Altered States Specialist in Training

 LAURA VOGELS

Testimonials

There is no personal growth without a willingness to ask ourselves questions. Often, we fail to do so with respect to our loved ones that have passed.

Remembrance is a powerful set of questions about our loved ones, our response to experiencing their loss, and how we may honor, now and in the future, the gifts they gave us.

While playing Remembrance, I found myself thankful for being gently guided by the questions presented and the internal searching, if you will, that was healing and revealing. Henry David Thoreau once said that most men lead lives of quiet desperation. I say the right question has the power to liberate and guide us out of desperation and barrenness.

Being asked a question that requires reflection is often our best friend. I recommend Remembrance to everyone. See for yourself.

David Colwell

Testimonials

I cannot say enough wonderful things about the Remembrance game. I played the game with my family as we recently suffered multiple losses in our family. My husband’s mother passed in the last six months, a friend of my daughters in the last two years, and my own mother in the last three years.

I noticed that after the services everyone went back to life as usual and no one really talked about their feelings of sadness, loss or grief, or about the person. My family members were not open to grief counseling. Playing Remembrance provided a safe environment to begin the healing process. There was laughter and tears, as well as memories and storytelling. We learned about one another in the process. Anyone who has ever suffered from grief and loss should own and play this game to help with the grieving process and begin healing. Thank you for creating this masterpiece

Donna Reilly-Middleton

Testimonials

“It is impossible to fathom losing a child. Whether the loss of a child was expected or not, the anguish that follows is likely to feel crushing and eternal.  My name is Jovanna Marc. In 1984, I attempted to remove my son’s body from King County Hospital morgue in Brooklyn, NY after he died in a New York City daycare facility. I spent many years in and out of psychiatric hospitals. And just when I was beginning to feel like things were turning around, I lost my second son in 2015 at a correctional facility.

The death of my boys had a profound effect on my well-being, both mentally and physically. There was major anxiety about the heightened suicide risk. I went through a series of physical changes that couldn’t be prevented or remedied. Despite the passage of time, the crushing sorrow I felt after the loss of my firstborn son and then my second never faded. The death of my sons was devastating and has left an enormous void in my life. I experienced sadness, numbness, and sometimes guilt and fury. I still have a hard time getting over my grief and moving on with my life because the negative feelings linger. Eventually, I stopped trusting other people. I struggled to complete even mundane tasks. I even cut myself off from friends and family.

After years of receiving mental health services from numerous providers, I completed the Howie the Harp Peer Specialist Training Program, and I am now a Certified Peer Specialist. As someone who has faced and overcome similar challenges in their own lives and who has trained to provide services to others in need, I am able to help others achieve greater levels of independence and self-sufficiency through facilitating their own recovery, strengthening their own capacity for resilience, and facilitating their own successful community integration.

Ms. Leslie Robinson is someone I met during a community outreach event. Ms. Robinson, after hearing my story, introduced me to the Remembrance game and explained that she created this for individuals like me.  Curious, I went home and played the game with my children. The soft guided conversation questions, comforting quotes on grief, and art ideas for group discussions are all included in Remembrance. Ms. Robinson learns via her game Remembrance that just as every life is different, so, too, is every person’s experience of loss.

By creating an atmosphere of trust and acceptance, Remembrance is able to tap into profound states of soulfulness that promote healing for everyone who takes part. Remembrance is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to reflect on the life of the departed, remember the many ways in which they touched your own, and speak openly about the many ways in which their life changed your own. Ms. Robinson has learned the hard way that healing can take as long as it takes. To bring you through a hard patch, I used what I learned about the power of memory.  The soothing guided conversation questions, healing quotes on loss, sketching suggestions for group interactions, and activities in Remembrance have helped my children and I grow closer to one another. To take advantage of these rare occasions to reflect, communicate, and discourse on many facets of my boys’ lives, we have agreed to keep playing the Remembrance game.”

Jovanna Marc, Founder, Multi-Assistance Resource Center, Inc.

Jovanna Marc

Testimonials

When we are affected so deeply by grief, it is difficult to find the words to begin the healing journey. Not only are we suffering, but so are our loved ones around us. It is the lack of connection and understanding that can sharpen the edges of grieving, making it even more painful to maneuver.

Leslie’s deeply thought-out series of questions and activities not only brings out the joy and love we had for our loved ones, but also initiates heartfelt conversation, invoking connectivity and love. Bringing forth healing through a “game” is a brilliant way to draw out a conversation that can be uncomfortable to begin. With these doors open, healing is finally possible.”

Leah Hodous

Purchase

$39.99

Priced at $39.99, REMEMBRANCE is designed to provide content for years of valuable and transformative dialogue and to be a supportive, gentle, and guiding resource to help to process, to speak about, and to heal loss, as well as to anchor our loved ones in our hearts.


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About

Leslie Robinson

Leslie Robinson , the Creator of REMEMBRANCE, is a therapist in private practice in NYC, as well as the Founder and CEO of Trance4mation Games , a Company created to design empathy based, trauma informed, relationship enhancing games which provide safe, structured spaces for people to explore and share who they really are; their struggles, experiences, memories, values, feelings and lives, in Community with one another. Through thoughtfully designed questions and fun interactions, breaking through stigma, presently impacting over 100,000 lives, they empower people to have deeply healing, enjoyable and transformative conversations with people in their own lives, at their own pace.


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Frequently

Asked Questions

Do I need a Therapist or Counselor to be present to play Remembrance?

No professional assistance is needed. Of course, you can if you would like the extra support, however as a therapist, I designed Remembrance to meet people where they are, and trust that people will speak to their comfort level. Remembrance will probably be an emotional experience and will most likely bring you closer to the people you play with.

What should I expect during Remembrance time?

It is recommended that you play with people you trust, and trust to be supportive, as many feelings will emerge during Remembrance time. We tend to repress many of our feelings about our departed, but this can lead to a general numbing. Remembrance was designed as a gateway to opening of our hearts and minds so we can truly live and love fully again, even with our loss.
Depending on whether or not your loss was traumatic, you will have a different experience. If your loss was traumatic, I suggest that you have down time planned for after Remembrance time, as well as potentially for the following day, so you can gently process through all that has been explored and shared.

3. How long should Remembrance be engaged in?

You can play for as long or as short a time as you like, as often as you would like! Anywhere from one question to hours of conversation – it is entirely up to you. When you feel complete or like you have gained what you need from each Remembrance time, please let the other participants know you are “good”. There is no shame. Depending on where you are in your very personal grief cycle, you can trust your sense of completion each time you play.


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