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Then you need to play Fearless Journey, a game to restore your hope. In my last post, I introduced the game Fearless Journey and shared how the objective of Fearless Journey is to discover a new reality that is transformational in nature. Normally, we focus on the little problems that distract us or desire resolution of something tactical. Rarely do engage in deep thinking on how to completely alters our present condition. Fearless Journey is one powerful, collaborative technique to help us do that.
The objective of Fearless Journey is to work with the other players to eliminate (or reduce the impact) as many of the obstacles between “Now” and their future reality using the patterns printed on the playing cards. Players will take turns sharing how they think one (or more) of the patterns in their hand might be useful to resolve the impediments on their journey. Play continues until the players are excited to start applying their ideas back at work or time runs out. It is not important that all the obstacles have been discussed (or even addressed) since one goal of Fearless Journey is to help people see that they can move to action even if some obstacles remain.
Keep in mind that the game mechanics presented below are a departure from the mechanics from the original game. For the original game mechanics, refer to the Fearless Journey site. So what are the mechanics of the game play (as defined by Carlton)?
Essentially, that is how the game is played – successive rounds of dialogue followed by successive rounds of thumb voting using the Decider\Resolution protocols until the time has expired and\or the players are ready to get to work. The power of the game is that it gives the players a whole range of new ideas to try, even for problems that are outside of their control. Additionally, the players realize that the best solutions come about by working with other people. Both of these elements begin to restore hope and remove some of the loneliness associated with being change agents.
Here are some additional tips I have picked up while facilitating this game.
There is more out there about Fearless Journey and I encourage you to take a look at what others have written. Ben Linders wrote an article on InfoQ and there is a short article about the game on Tasty Cupcakes.
Update – thanks to Deborah Hartman for giving me feedback, pointing out the omissions I had made and making this description of Fearless Journey more perfect!