9/17-18: Step Away 2025

What do you do when the learning problem is unclear, and creative ideas are nonexistent? In this two-day workshop, you’ll explore how the mindset of game design can unlock fresh thinking for instructional challenges. Led by experts in learning game design, participants will learn how to leverage core dynamics, visual metaphors, LEGO Serious Play methodologies, and the Serious Games Idea Deck to solve the most complex learning problems.

You’ll begin by experiencing a real learning problem with no clear solution, then engage in structured play using the Serious Games Idea Deck. Through game-based storytelling, sketching activities, and collaborative design, you’ll generate a prototype game idea to solve the instructional challenge. By the end of the workshop, you’ll walk away with new tools and mindsets to teach yourself how to enter a state of creative flow on demand.

Whether you’re designing serious games or just looking to infuse your ID practice with new energy, this workshop will help you think differently, collaborate more effectively, and unlock hard fun with a purpose.