The Elephant Tribe
“It takes a village to bring a child up in this world. It takes a village to get through this life. It takes a village to move through death. And it takes a village to hold the grieving up as they heal and discover life goes on.”
The Elephant in the Room game is just the tip of the iceberg. Its purpose is to cultivate a space for people to explore how they feel about sickness, aging, and dying within their selves and with loved ones.
It’s a space to explore your grief or loss safely. It’s a place to feel part of something bigger when you hear others’ stories unfold and you realize you are not alone in fearing the uncertainty of life. It’s a place where you realize you are part of a community that wants to speak about the unspoken and explore the uncharted.
The game and it’s conversations are a connector to build a tribe who come together and support one another in our life journey.
You are bold. You are open. You are ready to share, connect and grow. You are part of The Elephant tribe.
The Elephant Deck can be played numerous ways and numerous times across a lifespan. Why? Because life is happening to us and as it does our answers to some of the questions change as we evolve.
We all fumble for words when talking about sickness or death. Often what comes out is always, “I am so sorry.” Imagine if, in our journey together as a Tribe, we were able to find more words to talk with one another about sickness and death.
Imagine how opening to this uncertainty, sharing words, and supporting one another has the potential to reshape how we experience life and death.
“If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
It is always a special moment when a person accepts the inevitable. It’s usually the beginning of a deeper exploration into how they wish to make choices in their sickness, about aging, or about their death. The room lights up with empowerment! They are transported back to the center of control when they had felt shoved to the outside by their cancer, ALS, aging body etc.
The Elephant in the Room is not just a game, it’s an opportunity to find empowerment in the uncertainty of life, death, and everything in between. It’s an opportunity to increase intimacy with your loved ones as you experience and witness empowerment in each other.
One of the special ways The Elephant Tribe can connect you to others outside of your family and friends, who are experiencing similar issues is through shared stories on Elephant’s social media and reading the Elephant Blog where we plan on featuring individual’s personal experiences and stories with aging, sickness, caregiving, getting older, or dying.
Sharing experiences creates healing. So if you have living memories of those you’ve lost - poems, songs, pictures etc. or stories about your journey with sickness or an aging parent and you want to share, please send it in by contacting us here at Elephant.
Same goes for potential new questions that can be integrated into the next edition!! The question cards by no means encompass everyone’s experience. You might have a unique experience that could be shared with others who have gone through the same thing. Please send us your questions!
The intention is to create a tapestry of our human experience in living and death. To be a visual representation that we are all in this together. We are the village.
