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Games for a Cause! So… a few months ago, I shared the Beautiful Trouble Strategy Card Deck. What I didn’t pause to do was look at the OTHER stuff offered by The TESA Collective (I should have paid more attention: TESA = The Toolbox for Eduction and Social Action 🤦♂️). Anyway,
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Topics are a wee bit more heady this week… Fewer pictures! 🤪 Beyond developed / developing Here’s an interesting request: Kate Raworth (author of Donut Economics—is seeking input on 4 labels. “To get beyond erroneous ‘developed / developing’ countries, we’re proposing new country clusters, in terms of their journey towards
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Digital Therapy While it's only a concept (?), there's a lot to like about this digital therapy project (designed for patients with psychosis). There's the design of the app, the evidence-based approach to therapy, and—of course—the accompanying physical cards. More detailed information and
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Board games solving real-world problems? Raising awareness of an issue is one thing, as is bringing about understanding. But to facilitate actual problem solving? YES! Hailey Campbell, a city climate adaptation specialist in Hawaii, is the person behind a pair of (yes, TWO!) board games to facilitate difficult conversations around
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Knowledge Structures Here's a great introduction to knowledge structures by Francis Miller. AKA, diagrams, canvases, frameworks, visual representations of thought… with a slight difference: The orientation to these visual representations is more cognitive in nature (how we think vs thinking made visual). Sidenote: I have a love/hate
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To Meet or Not to Meet In the ongoing “should we have a meeting, or not?” debates, I found this article (visual) on “Synchronous and Asynchronous Communication” to be a really well-considered perspective, looking at WHY people gather, and what is more (or less) difficult to do asynchronously. Task Management,
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The Agile Fluency® Game The Agile Fluency Game is a euro-style game that “authentically simulates 2.5 years (10 seasons) on a software development team” with the idea that “experiments in the game lead to new insights about your real-world options.” Sign me up! Against personal narratives “Let’s ditch
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Assessing Autonomy “Dear Executive: Why don’t people act? This is why no one is stepping up.” I’ve been on both side of this autonomy discussion; it’s not as simple as it is often framed. Great question, with solid, honest answers. LotR Architecture I kind of love this
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A social activism card deck? A social activism card deck and game? (6 games, actually!) The Beautiful Trouble card deck is pitched as a collection of “key strategies and tactics that have inspired centuries of people-powered victories… now in a deck of 100+ cards that you can play!” I'
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Programmable sketches? Here's a provocation for you: ‘What would be possible if hand-drawn sketches were programmable like spreadsheets?’ So. Much. This. Before getting to the good (new) stuff, the first 1/3 of this article recaps the conceptual foundations upon which this work is build (Bret Vector and
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Psychological Safety Gaps I love the framing of these as psychological safety gaps (from trainer, coach, & facilitator John Schrag). I’ve recently become fascinated with the phenomenon of “safety gaps” – teams where psychological safety is taken very seriously; where the team leaders seem to be trying to do the
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7 Mythical Arguments against the future of work I enjoyed this piece taking on “Seven arguments against the future of work.” Fun read. Critical thinking. Bonus points for all the hand-drawn (and humorous) illustrations. 18 Ways Complex Systems Fail Short, and to the point! I came across this by way