Satir workshops

If learning isn't made fun, it isn't working ... and so we humans, in our infinite wisdom, make it fun!

The oldest spiral Game of Life we know, Mehen, was reported found in Egyptian Old Kingdom graves dating as far back as 5000 BP. This form of game seems to have spread over Europe in the 16th century.

Spiral games of life seem to have in common that they have 63 (7 times 9) fields, obstacles and surprises are placed at 6, 19, 31, 42, 52 and 58, and the spiral goes inward counterclockwise, mirroring the possible dangers, coincidences, happy occasions, progress, hitches and certain death affecting human life (and businesses, teams, our contextually non fitting opinions, assumptions, belief systems, and worldviews, whole cultures, species, planets, stars, ... in short, systems ;-).

The rules of this Game of Goose version have been changed to get rid of limiting beliefs about our capacity to work together as a team. It is open source. If you wish to facilitate it in your local context, feel free. Related files to "steal from" can be downloaded below.

At the games first public run at a Dutch local Chamber of Commerce meeting, it was embedded in a 3 hour session wedged comfortably between a goal (re)writing exercise of by participants themselves brought goal statements and a hilarious video on human and team stuff. Later runs drew also from otherwise gathered data, like at US Consultants Camp in 2003, facilitating with PTPT, where a nature walk was used to gather noticeable keys.

This game is open source. Feel free to download and adopt/adapt/use. For boards you can contact toy companies Ravensburger, Selecta or Jumbo International. In the US the Jumbo International version is sold through Toys "R" Us.