Starship Icarus: A Conflict Resolution Game

In this problem-solving game, we assign players a role on a starship and send a package of crucial supplies & information (including a secret individual goal). Only through communication, collaboration, and conflict resolution can they safely land Starship Icarus.
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"Hello, crew members of the Starship Icarus! We submit our deepest apologies for waking you early from your cryosleep, but the ship has encountered some… unexpected issues that require your immediate attention. Take a look through your personnel packets, they have all the tools and information you’ll need. Ok crew, let’s get started."

Starship Icarus is an interactive virtual game, solving problems with the help of a live host. This game is designed in collaboration by an MIT and Stanford trained neurobiologist, an award-winning game designer, and a DEIB consultant/leadership coach. The game takes complex concepts of change management, conflict resolution, and consensus building and distills it down to simple and fun gameplay. Players work with the Starship Icarus’s AI (our actor/facilitator) to tackle a range of problems encountered by the ship.

During this game, participants will experience:
- Defusing the amygdala’s fight or flight response when situations get complicated through breathing and observation exercises.
- Productively managing the overwhelm of many urgent priorities, engaging skills of quickly building consensus to strategically prioritize.
- The complex balance of negotiating personal goals while achieving the team’s overall goals. What will your team members do when their personal goals conflict? Can they put aside their individual needs for the greater good of the team?
- The power of gratitude, especially in tense situations
- The benefits in eliminating hierarchy biases and holding space for even the most junior team member
- Communication and collaboration tasks that require participants to work together. Players are given siloed (or compartmentalized) information, where no one member of the team can see the entire problem or solution on their own.
- Opportunities to experiment in a low-stakes environment to encourage psychological safety

Each participant will be assigned a role in the game and will get a package of props, puzzles, information, etc.

In every package, we include a security badge, a personal goal (which may conflict with the team's overall goal or with another player's personal goal), an oxygen detection device, and a fun prop that will be used during the gameplay.

US Delivery is included. Canada/International shipping is an additional $40/kit. We ship all packages via FedEx Express 2 Day Shipping. Please, no PO Boxes.

Everything you need will be provided for you in the packages, or you will be instructed to gather it during the game.