The Shapership Game
New points of view to shape the Future(s) — every day.
A 100% eclectic vehicle to move from MAD Land to NO MAD Land.
new points of view
The Shapership Game is both a game and a narrative conversation — a poetic, strategic and imaginative journey designed to help you seriously play with your mental maps and live the Future you desire, starting now.
Its core intention is simple yet profound: to help you adopt new points of view to shape your Future(s) — every day.
The Map — MAD Land & NO MAD Land made visible
MAD Land & NO MAD Land, made visible.
At the heart of the Shapership Game lies a giant metaphorical map that makes mental maps visible. From a distance, it reveals two contrasting landscapes, shaped by very different worldviews.
Nine mirrored zones, nine invitations to shift.
Together, they reveal how different mental maps shape different landscapes: from old mindsets to new perceptions, from regression to opening, from preservation to innovation, from more of the same to imagination. Touch the map, or pick a number.
A constellation of points of view.
Within each zone lies a constellation of metaphorical locations. Each location offers a point of view to shape the Future every day: not something right or wrong, but a mental lens brought to life through a poetic image, a short legend and a contrasting counterpart.
three questions
Why this matters.
There is an urgent need for profound transformation in all spheres of life. Yet many of us — even when we know the world we no longer want — seem unable to imagine a viable and desirable Future that is truly different from the Present.
Without bold imagination, we get locked into regression forces: despair, fatalism, anxiety and polarisation. So if we want to build the Future on desire and imagination, the quieter questions are not only « What should we do? » but:
What are the mental maps we are swimming in, when our maps are invisible to us?How do we stop repeating the S.O.S. — Same Old Solutions?How do we shift — consciously and intentionally — from MAD Land to NO MAD Land?
a narrative conversation
What it is.
That insight gave birth to the heart of the Game: a giant metaphorical map that makes our mental maps visible — so we can play seriously with them.
It takes the form of two contrasting metaphorical landscapes, created and sustained by very different mental maps:
- MAD Land — outdated paradigms leading to Massive Assured Destruction
- NO MAD Land — new perspectives leading to Mutually Assisted Development
altitude
What it offers.
By navigating this metaphorical landscape, the Game invites you to:
For solo play, it becomes an engaging practice of perception, imagination and movement.
For teams and communities, it becomes a facilitated Broadmapping journey: a way to adopt the Altitude Attitude, expand perspective, and make wiser choices in uncertainty.
Direction comes from altitude.
Activist of the Future(s)
What it helps you do.
- get out of familiar and usual repertoires of response
- unlock your freedom to reimagine your life and envision forward-looking action
- shift from stuck to unstuck
- assert your agency over your possible Futures.
- challenge routine thinking
- identify and disempower legacy narratives that no longer serve
- imagine and articulate transformative possibilities connected with your preferences, hopes, values, dreams and aspirations
- adopt the Altitude Attitude — a higher vantage point from which you can look at the world as it is and see the world as it could be, in a creative, visionary, heterodox and radical way.
The Game invites you to become an Activist of the Future(s), fully aware of your creative power to act on the Future — here and now.
Near-Life experience
What it gives you.
The Shapership Game invites you to a profound Near-Life experience. Sometimes we do not need to solve a so-called problem.We need to dissolve it — by shifting perspective.
From a new vantage point, the problem changes. Sometimes it disappears. There is nothing standing in the way of your aspirations.
There are no winners or losers here. This is not a game of competition. It is a parable of the inner transformation needed to become an active participant in the creation of a NO MAD Land.