THE
SAMURAI GAME®
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The
Samurai Game®
(www.SamuraiGame.org) is a unique and
highly challenging leadership and team
building simulation. In the Game
individuals and teams are called upon to
exercise resourcefulness, decisiveness,
honor, dignity, integrity, risk-taking,
selfless service and personal commitment in
a series of fast-moving, highly uncertain
situations. Lance Giroux (Managing
Director, Allied Ronin) administers the only
official facilitator training &
certification program worldwide for the
simulation www.SamuraiGame.org.
In this capacity he serves George Leonard
(www.itp-life.com) who invented the Game, and The Leonard
Trust, which owns the Game.
Additionally, Mr. Giroux produces the
Samurai Game® for companies, non-profits,
and other organizations for leadership and
team building purposes. Clients who
have used him to facilitate the Samurai
Game® include:
The United Nations, Verizon Wireless, Societe Generale
Corporate & Investment Banking, AIESEC
International, Lindora, Texas A&M
University, the
University of San Francisco, Oklahoma State
University, Westminster College, the
University of Nevada Las Vegas, the
Organizational Behavior Teachers Society,
and numerous other large and small
organizations.
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About
The Samurai Game®
In this
amazing experience, the Game’s opening invites each
participant to cross a psychological boundary and
step into the unfamiliar world of being a medieval
Samurai warrior. Players form two teams (armies),
that will face each other in a series of individual,
one-on-one contests. Every match is symbolic, and
while involving no significant physical contact,
demands much in the way of commitment, focus,
centeredness, personal integrity, and team support.
Throughout the
contests participants are encouraged to summon forth
their “warrior” spirit, gain personal control and
focus, and act with courage and determination to
prevail … or face defeat (symbolic death). At the
same time, everyone is encouraged to engage
opponents with the kind of respect, compassion, and
honor usually displayed by life’s true champions.
The pace is
fast. Tough decisions must be made quickly. The
ever-changing environment simulates the intensity of
actual combat. The Game models very well the forces
of radical change. How will the individual and the
organization respond: with warrior-like
resourcefulness or with low engagement? In this
way, the Samurai Game® presents a series of
fascinating examples of how we choose to fully
engage (or not) with the challenges in our
workplaces and our lives, and to what degree are we
willing act decisively and with integrity to get the
results we need.
The formal
completion phase of the Samurai Game® utilizes
extensive large and small group Dialogue Processes
that harvests individual and team realizations. This
Dialogue Process gives individuals and organizations
an extraordinary shared experience from which to
develop new insights, actions and commitments for
professional and personal success. The Dialogue can
be tied directly to the main themes and objectives
of an organization’s meeting to reap maximum
business and human value.
Developed by
the prolific human potential author and martial
artist George Leonard, the Samurai Game® is a
unique, and arguably one of the most intense
learning experience that companies, educational
institutions, non-profit organizations and
individuals can participate in. You will be talking
about it and making connections to it for years to
come.
Program Size:
16 - 80 Program Length: 1 to 3 days
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