Space to play — Board Games and Dialogue Tables

Playfulness creates space for establishing meaningful connections between people, which fosters encounters that both entertain, educate and stimulate the participants: by letting go of our compulsion to let norms, codes and protocolles decide for us. This is an escape from our human responsibility and the possibility to cocreate a new interplay: the human condition of natality, as Hannah Arendt calls the new beginning that may arise in in-between spaces…. Feeling free to explore different perspectives together and to agree on appropriate rules for what is at stake, is what makes us human.

The Quest for Wisdom foundation has created the Wheel of the Intercultural Art of Living, on which the book and game Amor Fati elaborates, enhancing Global Citizenship. Amor Fati is an intercultural redesign of the board game Know your self! The book explains the board game as well as the philosophy of the Wheel of the intercultural art of living. Lecturer Michiel de Ronde says about this book:

“I see your work as a great reassessment, also revaluation, of the pre-modern world orientation. All those profound insights and life-creating practices that were often worshipped or cursed through hierarchical dominance, you present within a depth perspective of an endless horizontal mythic-human field, through which the world can become a home for all beings and people can meet on the basis of dialogue and appreciation.”

With the Quest for Wisdom Soul Circle the Amor Fati game and book have been performed by means of Arts Dialogues in nine gatherings from the summer 2025 till the summer 2026: Read the red thread through these gatherings as Playing Wisdom with Amor Fati Arts Dialogues for the Cosmopolis!

NL/EN, 2024, ISBN 978 90 441 3970 9

Also the bilingual Dialogue Tables Four Winds (De Vier Winden) is developed to enhance an open cosmopolitan culture as global citizens — the intercultural enriched version of What is at stake? What is your Quest?

The Adinkra-game consists of a set of cards with Akan symbols and proverbs, ordered according to the wisdom of the five elements earth, water, air, fire and ether — in a way that the Ghanaian elemental wisdom might be compared to European visions on the natural elements. In this way the game invites you to excercise intercultural communication!

There are more World Games and educative materials (to be) developed, in which intercultural perspectives are playfully and dialogically incorporated.

In the Quest for Wisdom-Brochure you will find our up to date offer!

World Games — for the Cosmopolis

Workshops and Masterclasses around the themes of the QfWf-Archive dialogue and play forms are still to be requested, though not for sale anymore as board-game or Dialogue Table:

QfWf-Archive — Mythical-Philosophical Boardgames

Playful Dialogues — the Dis-covering Dialogue Table

Purchase of Educative Materials

One hundred percent of the money raised by the sale of all of the products will be used in realising our upcoming QfWf educational projects, all of which are non-profit and run by volunteers.

Update 2026-08