John James has developed a set of questions which give us another way of understanding the progress of a game. He calls it the Game plan.

1. Game plan

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3. Game plan
John James has developed a set of questions
which give us another way of understanding
the progress of a game. He calls it the Game
plan.

4. Activity
This activity use the game plan that includes
two additional “mysterious questions”. It was
devised by Laurence Collinson. You can use
the game plan questions to analyze the
personal game example which you have
already noted or you can use it to examine a
different gamey situation which you recognize
in your life.

5. Activity
Note down the answer to the following questions as they
apply to your chosen example.
1. What keeps happening to me over and over again.
2. How does it start?
3. What happens next?
4.
5. And then?
6.
7. How does it end?
8a. How do I feel?
8b. How do I think the other person feels?
What is my secret message to the other person?
What is the other person’s secret message to me?

6. Interpretation
The sequence of answers to the game plan
questions should show you the drama triangle
switches and formula G stages of the game.
The feeling you listed at question 8a and 8b are
both likely to be racket feelings of yours. If may
be that you recognize the feeling at 8a as being
familiar, but are surprised to think that the one
named at 8b is also your own racket. If this is
true, check with someone who knows you well.

7. Interpretation
The answers to the two mystery questions are
the psychological level messages of the
transactional games. However, Lawrence
Collinsion suggests that both these statement are
also likely to be messages which your parents
conveyed to you while you were a young child.
Check whether it is true for you.
A second possibility is that one or both of the
mystery questions answers may be message
which you conveyed to your parents when you
were very young.

8. Thank You

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