Monsters and Heroes:

Courageous Conversations Through Play

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⏰ 7:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. CDT
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with Jolina and Jak Kahn

Course Length:
3-Hour Toolbox Tutorial

Date: Wednesday, June 24
Time: 7:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. CDT

8:30 p.m. – 11:30 p.m. Manila Time

What if the conversations people avoid the most are the conversations they need the most?

In this interactive Toolbox Tutorial, Jolina and Jak Kahn will introduce participants to Monsters and Heroes, a game-based experience designed to help people explore difficult behavioral conversations through play.

Participants will discover how gameful structures can create psychological safety, encourage self-awareness, and support meaningful reflection around the behaviors that help or hinder success.

You’ll experience how storytelling, shared play, and carefully designed interactions can transform potentially uncomfortable conversations into engaging and transformative learning experiences.

This session combines gameplay, facilitation insight, behavioral design, and practical application in a way that is both emotionally intelligent and deeply engaging.

If you design learning experiences, lead teams, facilitate workshops, or support organizational growth, this session will expand how you think about communication and behavior change through play.

Course Overview

 Every workplace has difficult conversations.

Feedback conversations. Accountability conversations. Team tension. Communication breakdowns. Unproductive habits. Leadership blind spots.

The challenge is that most people avoid these conversations because they feel uncomfortable, personal, or emotionally risky.

In this highly interactive Toolbox Tutorial, Jolina and Jak Kahn will introduce participants to Monsters and Heroes, a game-based experience designed to help individuals and teams explore difficult behavioral conversations through structured play.

In this framework, Monsters represent the unproductive behaviors that hold us back, while Heroes represent the productive behaviors that help us grow, contribute, and succeed.

Through gameplay, reflection, and facilitated discussion, participants will experience how play can create psychological safety, encourage honest conversation, and transform potentially difficult discussions into meaningful learning experiences.

This is not simply a conversation about game design.

It is an exploration of how gameful experiences can support communication, self-awareness, behavior change, and team development in powerful and practical ways.

Participants will also get an inside look at the design journey behind Monsters and Heroes, including the facilitation choices, mechanics, and behavioral design decisions that shaped the experience.

Who Should Attend?

Enroll if you are responsible for helping people communicate, collaborate, grow, or change behavior in workplace settings.

This course is ideal for learning professionals, facilitators, leaders, coaches, HR professionals, and organizational development practitioners who want to create more meaningful conversations and more engaging learning experiences.

If you believe learning is ultimately about people, relationships, and behavior, this session will give you practical tools and fresh perspectives you can immediately apply.

Why Choose This Course?

Most workplace conversations about behavior are either avoided entirely or handled in ways that create defensiveness and resistance.

This course introduces a different approach.

Through game-based interaction and structured reflection, participants will explore how play can create openness, empathy, insight, and meaningful discussion around difficult topics.

Instead of relying on lectures or abstract models, this session allows participants to experience the emotional and social dynamics firsthand.

You’ll leave with practical ideas for using gameful experiences to support leadership development, communication training, team effectiveness, and organizational learning.

Course Highlights

• Experience courageous conversations through gameplay 
• Explore the Monsters and Heroes behavioral framework 
• Learn how play creates psychological safety and openness 
• Understand design strategies for emotionally intelligent facilitation 
• Discover how game mechanics support reflection and self-awareness 
• Explore real-world lessons learned from thousands of participants 
• Gain practical ideas for workplace learning and team development 
• Reflect on your own Monsters and Heroes

Who Should Enroll?

Enroll if you are ready to move beyond traditional training approaches and create learning experiences that develop real-world thinking and decision-making.

This course is ideal for professionals designing leadership development, organizational learning, communication training, strategic thinking exercises, simulations, or game-based learning experiences.

If you want learners to do more than remember information and instead think critically, navigate complexity, and reflect on consequences, this session is designed for you.

Cost:
$99 for Individual Registration
FREE for Game Garage Members

Includes live session + full access to the recording and downloadable tools

Date: Wednesday, June 24
Time: 7:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. CDT

8:30 p.m. – 11:30 p.m. Manila Time

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