Helping students imagine the future they want to create. Helping students imagine the future they want to create. The Real Game

Helping students imagine the future they want to create.

Helping students imagine thefuture they want to create.

The Real Game


How do you know what you want to be when you grow up, when you’ve never been there?

You imagine it happening.


How do you know what you want to be when you grow up, when you’ve never been there?

You imagine it happening.

The Real Game, like no other educational experience I’m aware of, offers this opportunity.

H B GelattStanford University

H B currently concentrates his writing on the Process of Illumination. His POI articles can be found at www.gelattpartners.com


ImaginationWhere Everything Starts

• If you can see it clearly enough, and want it badly enough, unforeseen forces start to conspire in our favor - Heliotropic effect



• If you can see it clearly enough, and want it badly enough, unforeseen forces start to conspire in our favor - Heliotropic effect

• Dreams are completely personal, relevant, motivational, invoke passion and inspire action - they are how the future is created



• If you can see it clearly enough, and want it badly enough, unforeseen forces start to conspire in our favour - Heliotropic effect


• With dreams we become intentional and purposeful - otherwise we drift in react mode



• If you can see it clearly enough, and want it badly enough, unforeseen forces start to conspire in our favour - Heliotropic effect


• With dreams we become intentional and purposeful - otherwise we drift in react mode

• Dreams change lives, and they change the world (Dreams - Goals - Plans - Actions)


The Real Game• An imaginary group journey into the future

and then back from the future

Some people who live in a dream world, some face reality; then there are those who turn one into the other. Douglas Everett



and then back from the future• Unfolds over 15 - 25 or more hours in a

classroom or group setting - over a number of days, weeks or months




and then back from the future• Unfolds over 15 - 25 or more hours in a

classroom or group setting - over a number of days, weeks or months

• What participants see and “experience” in the future changes the way they see their world when they return



Imaginary Journey to the Future• Role play a single, independent adult 10-15

years in the future



years in the future • Have a home, a job, leisure items and

activities, responsibilities - a life




activities, responsibilities - a life• Are part of a virtual community with diverse

roles and issues





roles and issues• Budget time, money, priorities, values





roles and issues• Budget time, money, priorities, values• Plan a vacation, deal with job loss, address

individual and community challenges


Back from the Future• Reflect on their work role and lifestyle in the

game, and everyone else’s



game, and everyone else’s• Begin to identify the stepping stone work

roles and lifestyle they truly wants - dreams




roles and lifestyle they truly wants - dreams• Discover the importance of attitudes, skills,

character, environmental awareness





character, environmental awareness• Discover the importance of success in school

in achieving their dreams





character, environmental awareness• Discover the importance of success in school

in achieving their dreams• Gain increased respect for adults - including

their parents and teachers



















Play is LearningOur school system is based largely on conditioning rather than learning. The only way children can learn is through

what adults interpret as play. This is why students retain so little of what they are taught in school. (Children retain 3-5%

of curriculum - Carnegie Foundation, 1963).

What is learned in a state of play becomes a permanent neural pattern in the brain. It is never lost. If we recognized the direct correspondence between play and learning, and the dramatic difference between learning and conditioning,

schooling would vastly more successful. John Chilton Pearce with Michael Mendizza


What Students SayWhat did you learn from The Real Game?

o “If you don't try your hardest and you don't care about school or grades you are going to end up in a bad situation.”



o “If you don't try your hardest and you don't care about school or grades you are going to end up in a bad situation.”o “I learned what life is like in adult shoes. Our parents go through this every single month.”



o “If you don't try your hardest and you don't care about school or grades you are going to end up in a bad situation.”o “I learned what life is like in adult shoes. Our parents go through this every single month.”o “I’m am in charge of my life and what I want to do with it”.



o “If you don't try your hardest and you don't care about school or grades you are going to end up in a bad situation.”o “I learned what life is like in adult shoes. Our parents go through this every single month.”o “I’m am in charge of my life and what I want to do with it”.o “I learned to achieve what I want to do in life so I don't get stuck with the job I got in this game.”



o “If you don't try your hardest and you don't care about school or grades you are going to end up in a bad situation.”o “I learned what life is like in adult shoes. Our parents go through this every single month.”o “I’m am in charge of my life and what I want to do with it”.o “I learned to achieve what I want to do in life so I don't get stuck with the job I got in this game.”o “Your salary isn't what makes you happy with your job.”



o “If you don't try your hardest and you don't care about school or grades you are going to end up in a bad situation.”o “I learned what life is like in adult shoes. Our parents go through this every single month.”o “I’m am in charge of my life and what I want to do with it”.o “I learned to achieve what I want to do in life so I don't get stuck with the job I got in this game.”o “Your salary isn't what makes you happy with your job.”o “I learned how much a big income is actually worth after bills, clothing, food, shelter and taxes.”



o “If you don't try your hardest and you don't care about school or grades you are going to end up in a bad situation.”o “I learned what life is like in adult shoes. Our parents go through this every single month.”o “I’m am in charge of my life and what I want to do with it”.o “I learned to achieve what I want to do in life so I don't get stuck with the job I got in this game.”o “Your salary isn't what makes you happy with your job.”o “I learned how much a big income is actually worth after bills, clothing, food, shelter and taxes.”o “Doing bad in school won't get me where I want to go.”



o “If you don't try your hardest and you don't care about school or grades you are going to end up in a bad situation.”o “I learned what life is like in adult shoes. Our parents go through this every single month.”o “I’m am in charge of my life and what I want to do with it”.o “I learned to achieve what I want to do in life so I don't get stuck with the job I got in this game.”o “Your salary isn't what makes you happy with your job.”o “I learned how much a big income is actually worth after bills, clothing, food, shelter and taxes.”o “Doing bad in school won't get me where I want to go.”o “Now I have something to work for not just graduating.”


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