The Management Challenge

31.08.2026•1:21:42

Edwin de Vos owns The Management Challenge and Hidde de Jong stopped teaching and now plays it with his Business Continuity students at Saxion in Deventer. Teams run a fictional company on ten energy points a quarter, pick from over a hundred measures, and get feedback that always lands one quarter late. The reframe: the facilitator's job is to wait to be asked, because the struggle is where the learning sits.

The Adaptive Identity Game

11.08.2026•1:11:22

Sylvia Taylor designed the Adaptive Identity Game after her third layoff. Three decks, one partner, and a single rule: your job title is banned. The reframe: adaptability is not about becoming someone else, it is about expanding who you already are.

The Glorious 2030s

09.07.2026•1:14:59

Eli Godde and Gaëlle Shearn facilitate The Glorious 2030s, a French-born conversational workshop that drops participants into a utopian future through guided meditation, three personal questions on a pocket-sized blue card, and oracle cards featuring real initiatives already underway today. The reframe: utopia is not a destination but a muscle, and training it with strangers in a room for three hours produces much more agency than years of reading about what is going wrong.

Playposium

18.06.2026•1:07:23

Adam Lusby and Maarten Koeners explain why Playposium has no published minute-by-minute schedule, how a vegan vampire dinner replaces awkward conference networking, and what happens when you stop teaching the dance moves and start DJing the room.

Drake's Dice

31.05.2026•1:25:23

Are we alone in the universe? For decades, that question has been tackled with complex formulas. Drake’s Dice flips the experience: you explore the Drake Equation through dice, risk, peer review, and discovery cards, without doing any math. Game designer Daniel Larose shares how he and Alissa Pott built a science outreach board game designed to stand on its own at home, while staying grounded through expert review.

Serious Play Conference Europe

28.05.2026•52:42

The Serious Play Conference comes to Europe for the first time. Dr. Philipp Busch, co-organizer of the first European edition in Mainz, unpacks what it takes to move game-based learning from niche enthusiasm to cross-sector cultural change — and what happens when the right people finally share a room.