The ReVision Game™

The ReVision Game™ is a simple way to help ourselves, and each other, notice when an old story has slipped into the conversation. Sometimes it happens in a sentence we barely hear ourselves say: “I always screw this up,” “I’m terrible at this,” “Nothing ever works out for me,” “I’m too old to start again,” or “That’s just who I am.” We repeat these sentences so casually that they can begin to sound less like interpretations and more like facts.

ReVision creates a pause.

When someone hears a sentence that sounds like an old story, a limiting assumption, or an unnecessarily harsh interpretation, they can offer the ReVision signal: the familiar two-finger gesture turned into a V. It is not a correction. It is an invitation. A simple way of saying, “There may be another version of that sentence. Do you want to find it?”

From there, the person speaking gets to decide whether the thought is actually true, whether it belongs to the present moment, and whether there is another way to say what they mean without abandoning reality. The point is not to make everything positive. Sometimes the revised sentence is still difficult. “I always screw this up” might become, “I’m frustrated because this matters to me, and I haven’t figured it out yet.” “Nobody respects me” might become, “I don’t feel respected in this situation, and I need to decide what I want to do about that.” “I can’t handle this” might become, “I don’t know how I’m going to handle this yet.”

The revised sentence does not have to be prettier. It has to be more honest.

That is where the game becomes powerful. Our language reveals the stories we are carrying. When we learn to hear those stories in ordinary conversation, we become better at noticing when an old belief is speaking on our behalf. ReVision turns that awareness into something social, memorable, and light enough to use in real life.

Friends can use it with friends. Partners can use it together. Families can use it around the dinner table. Teams, classrooms, and communities can use it as a shared reminder to listen more carefully to the language they are reinforcing. The only rule is that ReVision is offered with respect. You are never telling someone what they should think. You are simply reminding them that they may have more than one way to tell the story.

At its simplest, the practice is this: hear it, signal it, ask permission, and ReVision it. Someone says, “I’m such an idiot.” You offer the V. They know what you mean. You ask, “ReVision?” They might answer, “I made a mistake, and I’m embarrassed.” In that moment, the language has shifted from identity to experience.

That distinction matters.

We ReVision the story, not the person.

Sometimes changing one sentence changes the entire direction of the conversation. Sometimes it changes the meaning we attach to what just happened. And sometimes that is where a different story begins.