Mental model Game pitch #1

Mental Model Game

Share & form thinking.

Monkey Business Idea Slides

What is a Mental Model Game?

It’s a collection of questions that help us to discover the Mental Models of

ourselves and the members of our team.


What’s the difference between a superhero and

an average person?

What’s your mental model

about an artist?

Mental Model of success?

Mental Model of the perfect

pitch?


Spin wheel dictates how to work on the questions:

Alone

In pairs

As a small group

Whole team dialogue


“Although people do not (always) behave congruently with their espoused theories (what they say), they do behave congruently with their theories-in-use (their mental models).” - Chris Argyris, Harward professor of organisational behaviur, learning and education

“Mental models are deeply held internal images of how the world works, images that limit us to familiar ways of thinking and acting. Very often, we are not consciously aware of our mental models or the effects they have on our behavior.” - Peter Senge, MIT senior Professor and author of The Fifth Discipline

Why is it important to talk about Mental Models?


Everyone thinks uniquely and wants to be noticed, heard and understood.

To discover, listen, and act with everyone’s thinking you need time and understanding.

Mental Model Game helps you to share and create thoughts with your team.

In real time.

Why this game is going to work?


References

100 organizations / 1500 people playing Finland, Sweden, Germany, and Brazil over the past 3 years

“The secret of this game are the questions about Mental Models. Those questions make you speak from your heart and tell what you think so the conversation goes effortlessly to an interesting level.” - Antti Virolainen, Aalto University / Avoin Yritys / Kassi.eu

”I wonder what would happen if everyone played this game …world peace?” – Riikka Pellikka, Ministry of Employment and the Economy, Finland


Now Next 1 Next 2

1500 € - 2000 € + costs / Facilitated game day / session

40 € / board game on

shops

Mobile app & Web game Basic version 0 €, aiming to reach a

critical mass of users

Extra parts for charge: - themed question package 4,90 € ?

- themed spin wheel 4,90 € ? - Facilitators 1500 € - 2000 € + costs

The next steps?


Next needs we have?

Investment on developing mobile app & we game & board design

Learning about creating a game and about Mental Models from psychologists and educators – background of ours comes from practice and business, it’s not academic, so we can learn

People - developer and psychologists – since we are not those people we eed a developer in our team to develop this project


Team & history

• 2006 we created this idea in a Team Academy Finland’s Creative Intellingence & Flexibility –training program coached by Timo Lehtonen. It was a team of 10 there innovating, and we had a task of creating a game - this was the outcome • 2008 we started to sell this idea as a partial content of Monkey Business coaching sessions • 2010 we created a product out of this idea and started to sell only Mental Model Game sessions • 2011 we keep on building this product & recruiting people • 2020 …World Peace Game!


This is it. Thank you for listening and feel free to discover or challenge your Mental

Models with us from now on!

Contact www.banana.fi

Henna Kääriäinen [email protected]

twitter.com/hennaism +358 44 524 8472