Lots of times we are asked to create something that we haven’t seen yet.  How do you do that? For most people a picture is worth 1000 words.   But how do you create the picture before you have seen the picture?  Maybe you can help me…

I am teaching two groups of middle school children to play the Game in The Amazing Challenge.  They have never seen the game played before.  Although the game is simple, the step-by-step instructions are clear and they are approximating the behaviour, they are stuck. 

How do you demonstrate how to play with courage and adventure?  How do you show  play with calm abandon?  How do you picture trusting the other players to learn? What vision shows that sometimes being too careful can block success?  How can you see that sometimes you need to risk making errors to succeed?   

How can I show them what being calm in the middle of the storm looks like?  How can I show them that trusting the other player’s capability and challenging him, even if  at first he make mistakes, is kinder than patronizing them.  Of course children don’t know what patronizing means.  They are trying to be careful and considerate and not cause the other person to fail.  But in this approach, they prevent the other players from succeeding!  

The beauty of  The Amazing Challenge is that the Game requires  we ramp up the pace, let people be challenged, and trust that everyone will learn.  Each player is instructed to do his own simple job well and  and make it easy for the other players to succeed.    Now we just need to do this at a break-neck speed.    That’s where it gets really Amazing!!!  This is where calm in the middle of the storm is required.  This is where the brain must operate out of the Play Brain and performance becomes easy and amazing.   

How can this be illustrated?  What can I do to get these kids to take a risk, and jump into the unknown…..to experience it first hand? 

Unfortunately, I can’t bring in an excellent demo team to model the behaviour at this time.  What to do…..?

Help!