Amor Fati is a board game, in which you re-enact and reflect on life as a journey through a colourful landscape full of symbolism, picking up intercultural visions and mythical wisdom about the journey of life along the way. How the picked wisdoms enrich your vision on life, you share with your mates in the group, so that you deepen each other’s insights. As a result, the game stimulates both personal growth and offers an exercise for the art of living as a world citizen.
With the help of a Game Guide, a group of friends, family or team might go on a journey across the game board — while exchanging each others view on happiness in life — if one of the players wants to be the guide as a game and
Sitting around the Play Table with creative materials
dialogue facilitator. Also, it is possible to practice the art of living of amor fati under the guidance of a game supervisor from the Quest for Wisdom foundation.
Two world citizens have written a wonderful reflection, one in images and one poetical, on their journey towards happiness through the landscape of the art of living.
Amor Fati is a board game with 7 card sets, playing figures, rings, natural elements, dice, hourglass, spinning top, quintessence-shell and a game guide: ISBN: 9789492127167
Duration: depending on your wishes and possibilities, two to eight half-days, in a small group of 2 to 8 players.
Dialogue and Imagination
Imagination opens doors to unknown possibilities
Amor Fati introduces players to the intercultural art of living; its name being derived from the classic motto of the art of living, literally meaning ‘the love of life’s fate’. The journey towards your destiny in life is captured in symbolic signposts to different wisdom traditions from the four cardinal directions. The power of play lies in the dynamics that arises between contemplation and playful interaction by throwing the dice and spinning the toll, resulting in surprise about which symbol one lands on (your destiny, fate or coincidence?). All these aspects contribute to a deepened understanding: the symbolism on the playing field appeals to the imagination and the game assignments call for alignment with the moral compass and trigger both reflection as well as exchange with the others from the playing group. It is precisely the tapping of all the sources within oneself and from each other and what life has in store for us, that forms the basis for a wise handling of the questions that life poses on us.
Playing: both educative and having fun together
Each concentric circle on the playing field represents a theme of life, which is addressed by means of the symbols in each circle. Wandering over the symbolic landscape, you bring the intercultural meaning of the symbolism into a dialogue with your fellow players as a travel group; and you harvest the meaning after each game round on the game sheet. The intercultural significance of the symbolism is indicated on the playing cards with wisdom from stories, sayings and visions from different cultures. For example, players will be asked to wonder about enigmatic questions; comparable to koans — paradoxical statements such as “What is the sound of one hand?”, which students receive from their Buddhist teacher — and to philosophical ‘aporia’ (ancient Greek for desperation) and riddles to which there are several but no conclusive answers. These game assignments on the playing cards call for dialogue with oneself and exchange with the travel group.
Finding your destiny between freedom and determination
Training with the playing cards on Curaçao
The journey across the playing field triggers the tension between the coercion of fate and the freedom to shape life yourself, which lies at the core of amor fati as art of living. In the game, players experience this tension by throwing the dice and the call to interpret the symbol on their path, by asking themselves: “What does the dark forest mean for the theme I’m investigating in the game?“. In this way, players are stimulated to reflect on the paradox of being thrown into situations and giving meaning to it as if you designed life’s course yourself: The
Dice: representing fate
art of living of amor fati consists of the call to reconcile these two poles and to embrace being ‘thrown’ into life: by throwing the dice, giving meaning to the assigned symbol as a significant place in the labyrinth of life. By reflective notes on the game sheet as well as through dialogue with the travel group, players are making the proverbs and intercultural perspectives on the playing cards meaningful to the themes they explore in the game.
From outside to inside through seven stages (game rounds)
Playing figures with the basic symbols and orientation in life
Players practice the cosmopolitan art of living as they wander along the paths in the game to the mysterious quintessence in the centre of the game board. They give meaning to their journey as it meanders in the existential tension between the coercion of destiny and the freedom to shape life yourself.
Pregame Round; players choose one of the four natural elements and a basic attitude in life, visible in the figure with the arms down for an alert following orientation or with the arms raised for a sensitive entrepreneurial life-based attitude.
The outer circle around the theme of Authenticity shows eight starting positions in the game as frames of thinking with a principle of happiness. These positions connect the roads in the game to one of the natural elements and the corresponding basic symbol eye, heart, spiral, hand.
The orange circle of Bildung (Education) is about how to find a good course in the dynamics between nature and culture, as well as intercultural tensions: players are given a philosophical tool, by means of six symbols that depict intercultural perspectives from different wisdom traditions.
The green circle represents the constant dynamics in life of Ups & Downs; heading towards the centre, players pass one of the six mythical places, which connect the good life with the tragic side of life, in order to align their inner compass – this is made visible by the Rings of moral motives.
the game-board with seven rounds
The purple circle of Ordeal invites the players t0 continue their journey and find themselves in one of the six landscapes of elemental imbalance, by which they are metaphorically confronted with the question how do I deal with a crisis in life?
The in-between Round of Encountering ‘the strange other’: here, the question at stake is whether you tend to ‘keep everything under control’ in a crisis situation or whether you are willing to accept help. Do you want to meet the mythical creature or animal that lives here and can offer you a different perspective on the journey of life?
The inner circle of finding your Destination. What does it mean to you that the centre with the four quadrants are of the same colours and show the same elemental symbols as the outer circle? Are you back at the beginning or is your perspective tilting from having to being: how does your basic element open the gateway to the quintessence?
In the book of the same name, Amor Fati: Playing Wisdom for the Cosmopolis, Heidi Muijen provides background for the game as well as for the QfWf philosophy about the Wheel of the Intercultural Art of Living. This full-colour edition of 499 pages with English intercultural reflections by Greg Suffanti on his watercolour series – together with the visual work of Agnes Roothaan, who painted the game-board, Louis van Marissing who made the icons for the Wheel of the Intercultural Art of Living, Annelie van Steenbergen, Caroline Young, Nour Kayali, Klaske Rehorst, Josee Tesser, Elin Maljaars, Maya Plas & Mitra Muijen around the mythical-philosophical themes of Amor Fati – give the reader a surprising route of the imagination through the book. Amor Fati is a co-production with publisher Garant
NL/EN 2024, ISBN 978-90-441-3970-9
Amor Fati (game and book) wants to appeal to people with an open mind and a warm heart for the world. People with an interest in wisdom traditions as well as wisdom that arises from good conversation, living encounters and teamwork. Encounters between people ensure cross-pollination between their cultural backgrounds: a vital lifeline for the cosmopolis. This ideal of ‘the cosmic city’ — the ‘polis’ of citizens connected as a community across national borders — has ancient roots. It is the city of people who feel connected to a larger whole and to circles of concern. Global citizens who, in the words of freedom fighter Rosa Luxemburg, “feel at home in the whole world” and are touched by human tears and the ‘small’ good and beautiful things in life. People who feel that we are in need for wisdom from cultures worldwide for the questions of life in the global city — and who want to contribute with dedication to this ideal.
Co-creation for the cosmopolisAmor fati is the motto of the premodern attitude in life to bow for one’s fate. Although the name seems to indicate a fatalistic orientation in life, this ancient spiritual-philosophical art rather aims to strengthen the good life as a community and the mastery in life as an individual: by mildly greeting whatever comes on your path — neither to combat the unpleasent things nor to appropriate what gives happiness, but to embrace it and let it go again with love and understanding. This requires people to open their hearts to the full life, including tragedy — the ‘counterpart’ that is inextricably linked to happiness in life, like shadows to the light.
Costs: By giving a donation as ‘Friends’ of the Quest for wisdom foundation.
We hope for € 45,= per year – though we welcome everyone’s donation according to their means on IBAN number NL14TRIO0777827654 of the Quest for wisdom foundation in Weesp.
Naturally, the QfWf foundation greatly appreciates each donation, making the QfWf activities possible!
The ‘Four Winds’ take you on a journey of discovery in four rounds, around the colourful dialogue tablecloth, full of symbolism. These symbols enrich your conversation with mythological wisdom and intercultural perspectives.
The playful materials help to visualise what is at stake on a quest: “What does your issue look like as a journey? What mythical creatures and animals will you meet along the way? What other questions become relevant when you look at the issue from others perspectives?” A multidimensional approach is enhanced by means of philosophical and intercultural sayings on the playing cards. In the fourth and final circle, the four basic colours green, blue, yellow, and red in the
creative excersise in-between the dialogue
four quadrants, symbolise the reaping of concluding visions from the conversations in the four rounds. With a Quintessence drop, you unroll the dialogue as a journey across the dialogue tablecloth: this symbolic act helps to imagine the essence of the exploration of the issue at stake and to express this in a poetic form
Dialogue as an art: listening, asking questions and answering authentically
Playing Guide Four Winds
Through a dialogue guide, you explore a challenging issue as group of friends, family or team, or, each individual can investigate their own question with the group.
Depending on the size of the group (2 to 8 players), the game will be completed in two hours, half a day or a full day.
In four rounds of dialogue ― visible as the four circles on the dialogue tablecloth ― participants move from the outside in, to the inner circle in which the Four Winds are depicted.
Images tell a story
Butterfly, Scorpion, Fenix
The colours on the dialogue table refer to the four elements earth, water, air and fire. These are connected in the game with a basic symbol, which opens a space for encounter, such as the eye as a ‘mirror of the soul’.
“I dreamed I was a butterfly… or am I a butterfly dreaming of being a human?”
Zhuang Zi (369-286 BCE)
The four rounds
Symbolic objects to enricht the dialogue
In the first round, the images (and rich objects) in the outer circle of the dialogue tablecloth invite participants to imagine the theme they want to investigate.
In the second round you are given one of the eight symbols for philosophical tools with intercultural perspectives: these represent qualities for the art of living to be able to deal with the issue more wisely.
In the third round, you roll the coloured dice and see which creature or animal you encounter in the mythical landscape on the dialogue tablecloth. How could the virtues and vices, as well as divine qualities that they embody, help you to realise the good life? Playing materials for a dialogue workshop
For the fourth round, the wind rose in the four elementary colours on the dialogue tablecloth visualizes the four cardinal directions, from which the harvest of the game might help to get the issue in the right direction. Participants describe their harvest from the dialogue on the Game Fill-in form as a quatrain.
Cards with intercultural perspectives, rich objects around the playful dialogue table.
Duration: 2 hours to one (half) day in a small group up to 8 players.
Plyaing Cards Four WindsDialogue Guide: explaining the game and the symbols
Playing Field:
1 Dialogue table cloth
Game attributes:
1 mirror;
1 key;
1 hourglass as rich object on the Dialogue table;
Small weights;
1 quintessence marble;
1 small talking stick;
1 hour glass
Dialogue Tablecloth with symbolic objectsPlaying Cards:
8 Philosophical Tools with Western perspectives
8 Philosophical Tools with intercultural perspectives
Fill-in forms:
Double sided with instructions for writing a quatrain
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.”
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 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.
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.
The Quintessence game is a card game with wisdom from all corners of the world for practicing the art of living as a global citizen. The name refers to the intercultural symbolism of the natural elements and literally means the fifth element or the ‘quinta essencia’.
The goal is to have meaningful conversations in a small group on the basis of three described game forms and card readings with the 20 playing cards.
Duration is one hour to half a day per game form.
1. QUINTET
Wisdom from all corners of the world
Cultures from all corners of the world know the elements of nature as the basis of existence and as symbolism in mythical stories. In African, European, Indian and Native American wisdom traditions, these are earth, water, air, fire and an energetic and spatial element, the ether or quintessence.
In this game, the goal is to have a conversation as a group around the wisdom spells while placing a quintet on the table together.
2. WHOSE QUEST?
In all corners of the world, the labyrinth appears as a symbol of the journey of life, which is symbolized as a meandering path around the center. According to mythical wisdom, there the path
The labyrinth, a transcultural symbol
and purpose, life and death, above and below coincide in the generation-spanning life cycle.
The aim of the game is to explore an issue by letting the wisdom spells speak and thus enrich the issue into a quest. The introducer chooses cards from the fan on the table as needed and explores with the company the hidden eye, heart, spiral and hand power in the wisdom proverb by addressing everyone’s wisdom (of pathos, ethos, mythos and logos) in combination.
3. ORACLES
Angels and Bird Wisdom – Nour Kayali
Cultures from all corners of the world know creatures that mediate between humans and the world of gods and spirits, such as angels, shamans, ancestors, demigods and mythical beasts. The mythical connection of the four cardinal directions, four elements of nature, four seasons, etc., by seeing analogous patterns, forms the basis for the art of oracles.
The aim of this game is to obtain advice on a personal question (wish or problem) with wisdom from the four cardinal directions. To this end, an oracle is chosen from the circle of players to appeal to the wisdom of the group by interpreting the drawn card as an oracle spell in the light of the question.
World Cafe conversations with the Quintessence Game
“It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us — onze diepste angst is dat we buitenmatig krachtig zijn. Het is ons licht niet onze duisternis die ons het meest bang maakt…” — Marianne Williamson in: A Return to Love.
“Let freedom reign. The sun shall never set on so glorious a human achievement!” — Nelson Mandela, 1994.
Leidschendammer Lounge Meeting
Each year the Quest for Wisdom organizes Circles to cocreate an intercultural programme on an annually changing theme of social relevance, to be presented bij the Soul Circle on the Annual Meeting Day. The wider QfWf-Circle is invited to contribute with blogs, essays and artistic materials to be published on the Golden Ratio website as well as in a Golden Ratio Yearbook, thus making on a small scale the QfWf-World Dream come true. In 2024 the theme “Global Citizenship” was documented in Amor Mundi and in 2025 Amor Fati, highlights the cocreative and playful way how the QfWf realizes its vision of the Wheel of the Intercultural Art of Living for an inclusive cosmopolitan culture, in which all people may feel at home and in harmony with all living beings:
“Global Citizenship is open communication between people, without being judgemental.
Respectful to each other, acknowledging that however different we are, we can stay connected, and are able to share!”
A world dream emerges when we start dreaming together. By sowing seeds of love in our own circles — instead of going along with reflexes of indifference, aggression and fear — so that a smile elicits laughter, warmth is answered with embracing. How valuable are the differences between people to create a meaningful world and to make (working) life more colourful and fascinating — whith people developing an eye for (inner) beauty. How beneficial when people are opening up so that en open space between people creates an inclusive society.
World Citizenship – Nour Kayali
A world we dream of is created by dreaming. By not forgetting our ‘childishly naive’ way to be open and confident. And let us not forget that the most beautiful things are born from our hopes and dreams. The most beautiful dreams and positive emotions empower ourselves as communities, by an ethos that reaches to the stars and can change the world – these dreams begin with powerful dreamers like Harriet Tubman and Martin Luther King. Like John Lennon sings “I’m a dreamer and I’m not the only one…”. Let’s start dreaming together about a world where each can find shelter and people around to feel at home, by starting small actions in our own circles so that our world-dream-power comes alive. With small steps that are big and loving deeds that are contagious. Weaving threads of soft forces that connects us as global citizens and living beings on Mother Earth, flowing with the stream of life….
A team event on intercultural communication around the dialogue tablecloth Four Winds
The World Games series is derived from (inter)cultural wisdom traditions and they are developed with intercultural perspectives and transcultural means for the good life in the cosmopolis. By funding in 2023-2024 the Quest for Wisdom foundation initiated the project “Global Citizenship of the Street” which has resulted in the publication of “Amor Fati“, the book explaining the vision of the Quest for Wisdom as well as of the boardgame Amor Fati.
The Quest for Wisdom foundation develops intercultural play and dialogue tables for celebrating life as humans in the cosmopolis. These forms can be used also for both individual and group counselling.
With the QfWf-educational and artistic materials, the foundation aims to contribute to the intercultural art of living and enhance developmental processes as well as a sense of community!
World Cafe dialogues with wisdom cards
The German philosopher Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) wrote in his Aesthetic Letters that when people play they are human in the full sense of the word, and they are fully human if and only if they play. The Dutch philosopher Huizinga (1872-1945) regarded the ambivalent social and competitive nature of play as culture-building for societal domains such as justice, education and warfare.
Game forms also reflect specific cultural contexts and social characteristics ― such as the game Monopoly, which reflects Western market ideology; the originally Persian game of chess, which is an exercise in strategic insight and martial arts ― whereas oracle games, such as the Chinese Yijing and the Ghanaian Ifa oracle, exist in all cultures. Both gaming and playing are a powerful means, together with dialogue, for establishing connections between cultures.
Four Winds
Playful dialogues
Four Winds is a dialogic game around a colourful dialogue tablecloth, full of symbolism from the four corners of the world, with which you address a life theme or a social issue, using one set of cards with European philosophies and one set of cards with intercultural perspectives.
The playing time is at least half a day and it is suitable for a group of 2 to 8 people. Using a Dialogue Guide, you may explore as a group of friends, family or (sports or working) team the issue at stake in four rounds. It is also possible to be guided by a game and dialogue facilitator from the Quest for Wisdom foundation.
With this game for intercultural communication people get acquainted with a high context culture, especially the Ghanaian wisdom tradition.
With the Play Guide it is possible to play the game as family, group of friends or team. If you prefer an expert who can introduce the Ghanaian wisdom tradition, ask for a Quest for Wisdom-counsellor.
Quintessence
introduces Amor Fati for the good life in the cosmopolis:
The Quintessence game is a card game with wisdom from all corners of the world for practicing the art of living as a global citizen. The name refers to the intercultural symbolism of the natural elements and literally means the fifth element or the ‘quinta essencia’.
The goal is to have meaningful conversations in a small group on the basis of three described game forms and card readings with the 20 playing cards.
Duration is one hour to half a day per game form.
Amor Fati
Workshop Know thyself!
The board game Man, know thyself! has been enriched with intercultural perspectives and mythical symbolism in a series of try outs 2022-2024.
Amor Fati is a board game for 2 to 8 people, in which you embark on a journey through a colourful landscape full of symbolism, picking up intercultural visions and mythical wisdom about the journey of life along the way. How the picked wisdoms enrich your vision on life, you always share with your travel group, so that you deepen each other’s insights.
Animal Wisdom Crossing-Boarders
The game Animal Wisdom Crossing-Borders is under construction: Mythical symbolism which plays with wisdom and pranks of animals from the four directions of the world, in order to find the good life!
Purchase of Educative Materials
One hundred percent of the money raised by the sale of all of the games will be used in realising our upcoming QfWf educational projects, all of which are non-profit and run by volunteers.
Addressing life themes with symbolism across the boundaries of cultures
A workshop under QfWf guidance
Art Dialogues around the board game Amor Fati
Amor Fati is a board game to enhance the intercultural art of living: you undertake a journey across a colourful landscape full of symbolism and along the way you pick up intercultural visions and mythical wisdom.
Around the Amor Fati game board, you travel through seven game rounds that address life themes and exchange associations and experience with your travel companions for a wise way of dealing with the questions life poses.
On the journey you explore the tension between amor fati as fate of your destiny and the freedom to shape life yourself:
In a workshop to get acquainted with the intercultural art of living.
In a master class to learn how to guide this game form yourself.
From one full day to 9 half days, suitable for individuals, groups and teams
The Quintessence Game
As an introduction to the cosmopolitan art of living of Amor Fati’s there is a shorter play mode can encompassing a (half) daily Quest through the Quintessence Game
This is a wisdom card game that introduces the art of living as a group of global citizen with three different layouts and conversation formats:
Quintessence: how to connect the wisdom of earth, of water, of air and of fire to the unsaid of the fifth element?
Your Quest? Explore an issue with each other by allowing chance or fate to play a role in your exploring the question behind the question!
Oracles: How to unlock ancient wisdom from the four corners of the world by being the oracle for each other?
Sitting around the Play Table with creative materials
Around the Amor Fati game board, full of mythical-philosophical symbolism, you explore the intercultural art of living, with the aim of promoting meaningful encounters and enriching conversations as global citizens.
The board game is developed by Heidi Muijen as Human, know yourself from 2006 onwards in her philosophical counselling practice Thymia, resulting in six game forms of playing around life-themes. These are still available as a workshop as a means for personal and professional growth.
The six mythical-philosophical workshop themes:
Whereas Amor Fati is a play for which you need up to 9 half days time, there are introductory forms to get acquainted with Amor Fati from half a day to 4 half days, suitable for individuals, groups and teams:
Elemental Wisdom — Gnosis game: a quest for wisdom!
The Art of Encountering — Mask game: the strange other!
Follow your ‘Hero’s Paths’ — Hero game: play yourself!
Elementary way’s of research — Compassion game: the good life!
The Art of Dreaming — Dream game: Follow your wish!
Envisioning your view of life — Vision game: attune to your inner compass!
Around a colourful Dialogue Tablecloth full of transcultural symbolism ― around myths and philosophical and spiritual perspectives from all coners of the world. These aim to uncover the important questions behind opinions: Explore your differences in framing an issue on a quest towards the core of sense making with intercultural perspectives!
What is your Quest? is played in four rounds by means of symbolic objects and two sets of cards with Western and Intercultural perspectives from East, West, North, South.
By reflecting on the images and symbolism on the Dialogue Tablecloth, a delay of reaction is created and the conversation tilts from simply ventilating opinions, to questioning and hearing the polyphony and layering in different meanings.
Dialogues in personal and professional settings
Workshop on location
Around the playful dialogue tablecloth you engage in a dialogue, with a team, your family, a group of friends on a discovering journey. There are four dialogue rounds, with intercultural symbolism and perspectives, such as: elementary wisdom, the search in the labyrinth of life, meaningful encounters on the journey of life, how do you interpret signs as a language of the soul, listening to your moral compass.
In a workshop one becomes acquainted with a playful form of dialogue.
In a master class you learn to use a playful form around the dialogue tablecloth yourself as a professional.
From half a day to 4 half days, either in Dutch or in English
Suitable for individuals and groups: friends and family and (sports and working) teams.
You either explore a common issue or each participant explores their own question.
Through the QfWf-dialogue game The Four Winds an Educational Team of the University of Applied Sciences has explored the issue of “Inclusive Communication with our students and with each other, how?”.
With the team around the Dialogue Tablecloth Four Winds
One of the responses:
“Talking with images, or from images is sometimes easier, if you don’t know the meaning of symbols at first …. Beautiful work forms, special experiences, cheerful …. Staying with your feelings, not everything has to have a meaning in your head …. It brings you surprisingly close to the core. Norms, values, beliefs …. Free, playful, associative. Instructive how images can evoke so many different emotions.”
The Dialogue Table was developed by Heidi Muijen from 2010 onwards in her philosophical counselling practice Thymia, resulting in different forms of playful dialogues for the purpose of investigating personal, professional and social issues. The workshops around the Dialogue Tablecloth are designed to stimulate the imagination and with creative exercises, so that the participants are focussing on questioning their own frame of reference behind the issues at stake.
There are shorter (thematic) Dialogue forms, playfully tackling life themes, that are still available as a workshop as a means of personal and professional growth:
The Images in Dialogue — in four dialogue rounds to the core of an issue.
The Quest — dialogues around a triptych Past – Present – Future.
The Pythiagame — a creative oracle game to explore your own wisdom.
The Existential game — follow your own path to the good life according to ethical perspectives.
A contemplative game that is both challenging and fun
A workshop under QfWf-guidance
With Adinkra — an intercultural communication game in 2 rounds.
A workshop offers an exercise in an indirect form of communication and an introduction to traditional African wisdoms — in particular the symbols and proverbs of the Akan in Ghana.
In a masterclass one learns to use this form of play professionally
Lasts from 1 to 2 half-days, suitable for groups and teams.
Together with your team, family or other network, you first follow an introduction given by Dr. Louise Müller — an expert in the field of African and intercultural philosophy — about the background of Adinkra, the Asante culture and various philosophies of Ghana.
Also, it is possible to play Adinkra online with each other.
You can see how this intercultural communication game can also work as a digitally powerful game, by connecting within your own network!
A few impressions from participants:
“Great to experience this and see what is possible digitally.”
“Nice and creative initiative. Beautiful things also arise to keep in touch with each other.”
“It’s great that we are not being fooled by the corona virus and still meet each other in this way.”
“Very inspiring and surprisingly fun!!!”
“Adinkra, with image-rich proverbs and powerful symbols from Ghanaian culture, allows people to experience the wisdom of the Akan philosophy in a playful way”.
Workshops, guest lessons and master classes, also on location.
For teambuilding, company outings, masterclasses in cultural diversity, intercultural communication and high-context culture exercises using adinkra.
Dr. Louise F. Müller also gives workshops, guest lessons and masterclasses on location and tailored to the purpose of the meeting and the target group.
Including: an association, a club of friends, a family reunion, a cultural team outing, team training intercultural differences; guest lectures for students, teachers and other professionals, administrators and managers, who take inclusion to heart and want to further develop their skills in cultural diversity.
Workshops and masterclasses both live and online! Requests and to Purchase: info@questforwisdom.org
Hybrid play with the Game for Wisdom
Find your course in life through the Art of Living
A workshop under QfWf-guidance
The Game for Wisdom can be combined with face to face meetings― as an activity introducting the Wheel of the Intercultural Art of Living!
Is suitable for individuals, groups and teams for the purpose of setting your course in life and career.
The game consists of seven rounds with questions based on intercultural symbols and stories from wisdom traditions from the East, West, North and South.
The Game for Wisdom can be combined:
Hybrid Game for Wisdom as a Pre-conference acticity
On a Quest as team for a full day or as a pre-conference activity; also in a hybrid form of training in combination with a masterclass
In a workshop in order to become acquainted with dialogue and play as a means of developing the intercultural art of living. Using intercultural symbols and stories from wisdom traditions from the East, West, North and South.
In a masterclass one learns to use this form of play professionally.
Requiring at least ½ half a day;
Also it is possible to organise a meeting of up to 3 days if desired, suitable for individuals, groups and teams.
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The orange circle of Bildung (Education) is about how to find a good course in the dynamics between nature and culture, as well as intercultural tensions: players are given a philosophical tool, by means of six symbols that depict intercultural perspectives from different wisdom traditions.
Amor Fati (game and book) wants to appeal to people with an open mind and a warm heart for the world. People with an interest in wisdom traditions as well as wisdom that arises from good conversation, living encounters and teamwork. Encounters between people ensure cross-pollination between their cultural backgrounds: a vital lifeline for the cosmopolis. This ideal of ‘the cosmic city’ — the ‘polis’ of citizens connected as a community across national borders — has ancient roots. It is the city of people who feel connected to a larger whole and to circles of concern. Global citizens who, in the words of freedom fighter Rosa Luxemburg, “feel at home in the whole world” and are touched by human tears and the ‘small’ good and beautiful things in life. People who feel that we are in need for wisdom from cultures worldwide for the questions of life in the global city — and who want to contribute with dedication to this ideal.
