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 of norms, codes and traditionally learned frameworks and allowing a new interplay to arise in the in-between space…. Feeling free to explore different perspectives together and to agree on appropriate rules for what is at stake.
The Quest for Wisdom foundation has created the Wheel of the Intercultural Art of Living, on which the game Amor Fati elaborates, enhancing Global Citizenship. The book with the same title explains the board game as well as the philosophy of the Wheel as 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.”
Also the bilingual Dialogue Tables Four Winds (De Vier Winden) is developed to enhance an open cosmopolitan culture as global citizens. 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.
There are more World Games and teaching modules (to be) developed, in which intercultural perspectives are playfully and dialogically incorporated.
World Games — for the Cosmopolis
- World Games
- Amor Fati
- Quintessence-Game – Quest For Wisdom
- Four Winds
- Adinkra
- Animal Wisdom Wind-Streken
QfWf-Archive — Mythical-Philosophical Boardgames
- Know yourself — the mythical-philosophical boardgame
- Gnosis game: Elementary wisdom
- Masquerade game: Meeting strange others
- Hero game: Play yourself!
- Compassion game — the good life!
- Dream game: Dream your Wish!
- Vision game: Visualize your Inner Compass!
Playful Dialogues — the Dis-covering Dialogue Table
- Playful Dialogues
- Intercultural Dialogue: a Quest with Intercultural Perspectives
- Playful Intercultural Dialogue: a Quest with Intercultural Perspectives (extended variant)
- Quintessence game: Five Elements
- Quest game: Follow your quest in the labyrinth
- Pythia game: Take a throw! (Oracle Game)
- Existential game: Follow your Path
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Update 2025-02
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