Playing Together, Transforming Together: The Journey of the Cultural Transformation Game
We’re excited to share a new chapter of our Cultural Transformation Game project.
Playing the Cultural Transformation Game is more than a group activity, it’s a journey into the heart of how we relate, think, and act together. Each round invites participants to pause, reflect, and notice the inherited patterns that quietly shape our choices and relationships. Through storytelling, listening, and movement, the game helps ground abstract ideas into lived experience, helping us see not only the challenges we’re facing, but also the possibilities for connection, care, and collective renewal. In this playful and intentional space, moments of insight and empathy emerge naturally, reminding us that transformation happens more easily in a space of caring, and can become collective through trust and dialogue.
What makes the game truly powerful is its ability to bridge personal connection, reflection in systemic awareness. By sharing perspectives from each person’s personal experience, together we start to build a more 3 dimensional perspective on how entrenched cultural habits, whether in teams, organisations, communities or in the wider systems we live within (patriarchy, capitalism etc), impact on our wellbeing, collaboration, and resilience. By experimenting with new ways of being together through the game, we open pathways towards more regenerative, compassionate, and life-affirming cultures. It’s a space where curiosity outweighs judgment, where listening becomes a radical act, and where the seeds of deeper social and ecological change can start to take root.
A new chapter taking shape
Over the past year, we’ve been playing the game with diverse communities and continents. Each session has brought depth, honesty, laughter, healing moments and powerful insights. We’ve received such beautiful, generous feedback, which continues to shape how the game evolves.
Now, we’re stepping into a new phase: beginning the search for a graphic designer that can truly hold the spirit of this work, something that captures its depth and tenderness, while opening imagination and possibility.
At the same time, we’re developing a simple set of open-source, downloadable materials so that your group will be able to start playing the game on your own:
• Three card decks: the cultural elements card; the ‘magic moments’ cards (to connect to the present) and the ‘wisdom nuggets’ cards (to support the group to co-create a healing space)
• A guide book
These will make the game more accessible and easier to share across communities.
An invitation to support this work
If this project resonates with you, we invite you to help it grow.
You can support us through:
• A one-time “big leap” donation
• A monthly contribution to sustain ongoing development
We also warmly welcome your help in connecting us with funders and supporters. Every connection and contribution directly fuels the creation of design, facilitation, and open-access materials, helping this work reach and transform more communities.
Join a game
As we are looking to create a high-quality physical edition and explore a digital version, our hope is that more people around the world can step into this space of transformation. We are glad to invite you to join one of our free online sessions!
Upcoming dates (6–16 participants per game):
• 28 April, 13:00 Chile / 17:00 UTC
• 13 May, 8:30 Chile / 12:30 UTC
• 26 May, 13:00 Chile / 17:00 UTC
• 26 June, 8:30 Chile / 12:30 UTC
• 16 July, 8:30 Chile / 12:30 UTC
• 28 July, 13:00 Chile / 17:00 UTC
You can sign up to one of the existing events through our event page on eventbrite. Just click on “check availability” and select the date & time you want to join in the calendar.
Please be aware that games need can take place with 6–16 participants. If less than 6 participants sign up, the game does not take place. We will send you a confirmation email including a zoom link one week and one day before the game is scheduled to take place.
Register your interest or request a game
If none of these dates fits you but you’d like to be informed of future events, please sign up here. You are also welcome to request a game for your team or group, we will try to match your time zone and language needs.
Whether you join a game, share it with your community, or support its development, you become part of a living experiment in collective healing. Each card, story, and conversation is an invitation to reimagine how we coexist, more resiliently, more openly, and more joyfully. Together, we are not just playing a game; we are co-creating cultures that honor care, interdependence, and possibility.
This project has grown from a collaboration between the Transition Network International Cultural Transformation team and Grassroots to Global - we’re grateful for this shared exploration and inspiration.
If you feel curious, called, or simply want to stay close to this unfolding, reach out, sign up, or support in a way that feels right.
Let’s keep playing, learning, and transforming, together.