In today’s environment of partial attention and isolating remote work, few things are more satisfying than group experiences that produce powerful, meaningful connections and output. But this kind of enlivening, collective work doesn’t happen by chance. It must be consciously designed and purposefully activated—in a team, an organization, and a culture. The good news is that making space for this kind of work doesn’t have to be hard. There’s a technique available to everyone, with no special certification required: gamestorming, based on a best-selling O’Reilly book (2nd Edition coming in 2025!).

This course involves learning to facilitate games that help you and your team be more innovative, collaborative, and productive together. We’ll model not only how to use games (consider them visual-thinking thought experiments), and how to sequence games to build meeting agendas, group gatherings, or experience designs, but also how to invent your own so they fit your specific work goals. Participants will learn how to:

>> Shorten meetings and make them significantly more productive
>> Increase efficacy and engagement in strategic thinking and problem-solving
>> Enhance connection and communication across team members
>> Elevate collaboration and uncover surprising solutions to sticky problems
>> Generate better ideas and significantly improve remote work experiences

The Gamestorming Certification Program is for business strategists, workshop and team leads, meeting facilitators, collaboration designers, change agents and innovators committed to multi-sensory group techniques and serious about radically-great teamwork that deliver better relationships and therefore, better solutions.

This program weaves visual language with applied gamification and relational intelligence (an inner science method called Deep Self Design® developed by Sunni Brown) to give students real confidence in the ability to become a masterful co-creator.

To become certified in Gamestorming, the learning path includes:

1. Gamestorming Foundations

2. Visual Thinking

3. Fluent Collaboration™

*Optional Elective: Gamestorming for Business Strategy

The Fluent Collaboration training teaches facilitators, collaboration designers, workshop and meeting leads how to create an emergent group culture in which individuals soften protection and move toward connection so that ideas and information can flow more easily.

In this immersive training, groups learn how to create regenerative states of WE, transforming our default approach to meeting and teaming - discrete, compartmentalized, discontinuous, and separate - to an inspired way of collectively working that’s fluid, unbroken, connected and continuous.

This shift in relationship and group dynamics results in ideas, innovations, insights and solutions that were previously unavailable to the group. Our training integrates two crucial rivers of skill to produce this kind of productive, imaginative, relational space: Gamestorming and Deep Self Design®.

The training makes possible:

>> The “WE” (a third presence that emerges when individual defenses can safely soften or dissolve)
>> Regenerative Social Spaces (relational neurological fields of energetic exchange)
>> Liquid Networks (visible and invisible channels for ideas and information to flow)
>> Healthier Relationships within Individuals and Between Participants
>> More Closely Connected Teams and Healthier Overall Cultures
>> Deeper Insights and More Compelling Solutions and Innovations