Situation

Who am I? What is my purpose? What is my story? What role am I playing in the world and why? These are questions we all have asked ourselves at different stages of our lives. These are questions we spend hundreds of dollars and hours on therapy and coaching for, even though they aren't always effective in addressing the root of our problems.

There are several barriers to accessing quality personal development and wellness services such as cost, cultural mismatching, fear of judgment, fear of failure, commitment, and reporting bias of efficacy.

The use of technology is pervasive and does not support all learning styles of sustained learning outcomes. 

Task

• Create a comprehensive game learning system that challenges the stories, narratives, archetypes, and symbols that have influenced our identities and perception of the world. 
• Incorporate self-coaching and self-education to meet personal development needs when access to traditional coaching or therapy is unavailable

Action

• Conceptualizing and developing an e-learning platform dedicated to innovation in personal development coaching and wellness
• Leading the product development of a Nueroarts based board game learning system covering the foundations ontology, psychology of identity, and self-coaching 
• Conducting extensive market research using first party data and 100+ user stories to determine pre product-market-fit for unique board game learning system
• Coordinating the procurement and production of high fidelity prototypes and MVP (minimum viable product) based on PRDs (product requirements documents)

Result

A one player, multimodal game based learning system consisting of 1) a game board, 2) a guidebook, and 3) a e-masterclass series.

• Recorded 17 pilot lectures (master class) between April 2021 and August 2022 
• Testing began Feb 2023 and will conclude April 2023
• Received two scholarships to become a certified personal development coach Received certifications in october 2022

Players advance their ARCHETYPES DICE as they complete self-coaching and re-scripting exercises in the guidebook. The final goal? To rewrite your story as your authentic, whole self and choose the role that represents who you really are. This is not a game that you can lose. You can only heal. After all, we are all stories. Let’s get started.

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