Playing and Winning the Game You're Built 4 PLRK!Shop™
(PLRK!™ where play and work blend so well, it all feels like playing)

There are two questions to answer about How the Game Plays:

1.  How you play - which means how you get involved in the game when it's offered.

2.  How the Game itself is played when you're experiencing one of the Rounds.

Well, first moves first so...

The simplest answer for How YOU Play is follow these steps:

• Sign up for a game
• Pay the entry fee
• Receive a ticket
• Pick a topic for your game to be focused on (health, money, relationships, a special project, sales, etc.)
• Answer this question: “Given that we’re all going to die, how do you want to experience your life on a daily basis between now and then?”   (we mean the attributes of an experience not the events).
• Come to the game
• Play full out and Have fun 

That’s how YOU play.  So here’s a little more information on how the Game plays during the two days of Round 1 (you have to get the basics before playing Round 2 and Round 3)

• You show up
• You sign in
• You get a name tag
• You pick up your playbook
• You pick a seat (open seating)
• You play, watch, chime in, listen, contribute, muse, laugh (occasionally), noodle on stuff, write in your playbook as needed or wanted,  reflect, and play games with the other ‘kids’ until the game is over.
• And, at appropriate times you take a bio break, half-time food break, or just time out and pause playing.

Lastly, there are a number of ways in which each of the basic elements can be delivered. It will be a completely intuitive game as what to play, when and how to address the element. In addition to the 7 basic elements there are 6 ‘your move’ elements to be played that are also possible to experience in a multiplicity of formats. This makes the game unpredictable and absolutely unique, each and every time it’s played.  The experiences that juggle themselves around all the elements are:

• Games
• Exercises
• Processes
• Videos
• Music
• Sharing
• Game Accelerations (kind of like coaching only better)
• Practice
• Journaling (capturing important stuff you think about or notice)
• Stories
• Coloring/Drawing

And they are all potentially experienced in:

• Solo
• Dyads
• Triads
• Groups of 4-5
• The Full group at once

You can see that the possibilities of those combinations are endless (well maybe not actually endless but, one mathematician who came said that the ‘your move’ section had 10 to the 27th number of permutations, which doesn’t even include all the variations of numbers of people involved and the 7 basic elements. That’s a lot). 

Which makes it kind of like life doesn’t it?

So Come Play!

If you still need more info here it is:

The Game Of…™ is an experience that is adaptable to whatever topic is important to the player. It is designed to be a flexible and creative lens to view the world through. This quality allows The Game Of…™ to interact, engage and support any existing models or programs without conflict. It brings a spirit of play, openness, imagination and focus to the experience of development and accomplishment. The presentation is alive with an “outside-in-the-yard-making-it-up-to-fit-me” feeling. And in case you want to know how long this has been going...

Chronology of The Game Of…™

2000

The Game Of…™ was first played in June of 2000 as ‘The Game of Your Business’ with the New Jersey Professional Coaches Association. It began with my own curiosity about how it would be to create your business as a Game.

2001

It was next presented in its slimmed down version in Sydney, Australia in August 2001 where it was received with great enthusiasm. This led to more development and the Game Of…™ resurfaced in its current multiple use form. It’s been flowing ever since.

2002

• Toronto, Canada
  ‘Game Of Your Life’, delivered three times in Jan, Feb and April. Yup it was cold, even in April.
• Philadelphia, PA USA
  ‘Game Of Your Life’ delivered in August. Yup it was hot and humid.
• Los Angeles, USA
  ‘Game Of Your Life ‘ delivered in December. Yup, got smarter about weather.

2003

• Columbus, OH USA
  ‘Game of Cutting Edge Leadership’, delivered for a news organization.

2004

• Mission Viejo, CA USA
  ‘Game of Success’, played by coaches and other professionals.

2005

• Chicago, USA
  ‘Game Of Masterful Presentation and Facilitation’ in July. Yup, hot but inside so…
• San Jose, CA USA
  ‘Game Of Coaching‘ November, International Coach Federation Conference

2006

• Melbourne, Australia
  ‘Game of Mastery’, played by coaches and other professionals. Crikey, it's frickin hot in Australia in January.

2010

• Irvine, California

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       its first steps successfully in the new updated and

       even cooler form. Plus, we're going like way deeper

       man...