we propose narrative conversation to help individuals and groups to take a helicopter view on your issues, seriously play with and deliberately change your mental maps to create new Landscapes.
The Shapership Game is a transformative experience that empowers you to become activists of your own futures.
How ? by inviting you to exercise your power and freedom to consciously try new points of view to shape the Future every day.
Navigating a metaphorical map featuring two countries—MAD Land (representing outdated paradigms leading to Massive Assured Destruction)and NO MAD Land (symbolizing innovative perspectives leading to Mutually Assisted Development)— players embark on a journey of inner transformation.
Through 174 symbolic locations across 9 mirrored zones, you can choose to shift
· from habitual ways of seeing and doing—which sustain a world you no longer desire (MAD Land)
· to deliberately transforming your perspectives to shape a more desirable andsustainable world (NO MAD Land)
Results: you develop your creative power, move from “stuck” to “unstuck” and change the way you shape the world. Rather than forecasting, the game allows to move from RoadMaps to Broadmaps.
It is “Now o'clock!”
It is a secret for no one that our current world is going MAD! More exactly, the way we live on this planet is leading us to Massive Assured Destruction. No wonder a majority of us feel disoriented, desperate or overwhelmed.
For each of us, now is a historical moment, whether in Business and/or in Life, to raise good questions and make wise decisions. We have a fundamental choice to make:
As Einstein said, “The world we have created is a product of our thinking”.
Knowing that MAD Land and NO MAD Lands are created and sustained by a set of completely different – and often unconscious – mental Maps (worldviews, mindsets, stories, feelings and values), we have to change our Maps if we want to shape a new world. Because our Maps shape the landscape.
The shapership game is an “eclectic” vehicle to move from MAD to NO-Mad Land. It is an invitation to deliberately reframe our“Mental Maps” to reshape our Landscapes. Just imagine how that might change the decisions you take today, open the space for transformative Innovation and deliberately instill the sense of Purpose and Hope in everything you do.
Roadmaps are a specific way to move from A to B (for instance from 4G to 5G). Roadmaps are fine when you need to deploy a project without taking uncertainties and new possibilities into account. But the fact is we can’t predict the Future. What we can do is to make wise decisions informed by multiple perspectives.
Broadmaps help us expand our perspectives and seize the historical panorama. Broadmapping offers a "helicopter" view to any person who wants to get a broader view on an issue, a project or any other situation where "altitude" is key.
As a conversation and coaching tool, the Shapership Game is designed to enable you adopt the Altitude Attitude: a higher, global perspective. It enables you to get out of “familiar” patterns and make better choices of direction.
It is a foresight game allowing you to play with the Future before it happens.
We have created a Metaphorical Map territories we invented and called MAD LAND and NO MAD LAND, with 9 areas and 174 metaphorical places of interest in each side.
We then designed a game based on "Mental Cards", so to speak: 174 cards, each of which proposes two “contrasted” points of view, depending on the MAD or NO MAD worldview adopted.
You can use the Shapership game around a theme or a challenge to “play” creatively with your Mental maps and imagine the Future(s) you wish to see happen.
As you can see, each of the 9 areas existing in Mad land has its “contrasted replica” in NO-Mad land.
There is a logical build-up, from bottom to top which represents how the deepest levels impact the way we act or react.
For instance, depending on our Mindsets, perceptions and emotions, we can find ourselves
Going into more details in Mad Land and No Mad land, the visit offers the choice of new points of view to shape the Future in everyday Life: 378 points of interest, each of which metaphorically illustrates a way to look at the world.
Each of our “mental cards” associates two“contrasted” points of interest, providing us with vantage points from which we can, at the same time, observe the world we want less of and imagine the world we want more of.
Thanks to this reflective surface, we can also see how we participate in shaping the Future every day, either by maintaining the status quo, or by living the Future today. We are invited to shift from a worldview that limits our sense of possibilities and keeps us stuck in the Present to a radically different meaning-making story of the Future.
For instance
In the “Mindset and perceptions” area, are we starting the day in the One Right Answer Saloon or in the 20/20 Vision Café?
How can we move from the “Concrete Jail” - The trap resulting from “Action without Vision”- to the “Vision to Action” Elevator which generates Power and Flexibility.
In this VUCA world, how can we move from “The Search for Certainty Shadows and Fog” to the “Confidence in UncertaintyBay”?
Are we guided by the “Fear to Lose” or by the “Desire to Create”? What can the consequences be?
Are we approaching “Strategy as War”, trying to be the best in the world? Or “Strategy as Collaboration”, trying to be the best for the world?
Triggered by this powerful metaphor, the game offers individuals and groups a narrative coaching and conversation to “reframe their mental maps” and better shape the Landscapes.
Instead of trying to solve problems within the same old paradigm, the game is designed
The game offers a journey into the Unknown with a “Soul Compass”.
As a result, we trust this will enable you to feel, see and understand how to better orient your desires and your efforts in your daily practices. It may lead you to the appropriate state of BEING needed to make 3 conscious internal shifts to actively shape your Future
Enjoy your next wise move: from MAD Land to NO MAD Land!
As a game, MAD land and NO MAD Land Map and Cards can be used individually and collectively in different ways.
It always starts by defining a subject you want to think about (your family, your business, your studies, etc.) where you have a challenge and need to move from “Stuck”to “Unstuck”.
Rather than forecasting, the game allows to move from RoadMaps to Broadmaps.
The Shapership “game” is a support to live your lives with enchantment and Creative Agency, filled with new meaning and continuous purposeful Creativity, full of delight, Beauty and Poetry. The best way to create the Future is to invent it.
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