A trade-off session
Two or three honest choices. Immediate reward on one side, a slower system on the other.
Climate & Sustainability Learning
A system people can steer, not a report they file.
Companies, cities, and classrooms already have the data. What they lack is a decision with a delay in it. We build that decision so the trade-off is felt before it is named.
Play three seasons
Take from the stock, or leave it to recover.
Six units. Three turns. Taking feels good now. The cost shows up later. A toy of a delayed system, not a carbon model.
Season 1 of 3
Six green units. Taking pays now. The pile notices later.
What we build
The loop, playable.
A delay you can see
The consequence does not arrive in the same beat as the click. That lag is the lesson.
A debrief with the real name
After the turns: feedback, stock, delay. The vocabulary lands on an experience.
What the organization gets
Decisions, not another dashboard.
Companies
Sustainability leads and operators practice the trade-off they will face in a budget meeting, before the meeting.
Cities and public programs
Residents or staff meet the delay in a system (use now, thinner later) without a lecture that softens the stake.
Educators
Students can say what a feedback loop did, because they steered one.
Why a game, not a chart
Experience, then the concept.
Established ideas in learning and systems. Not an invented impact figure.
Experiential cycleKolb: a concrete experience, then reflection, then the concept. The chart usually skips the experience.
Delays in systemsDonella Meadows: delays are why people overshoot a system. If the cost arrives late, the early choice feels free.
TransferPractice transfers when it shares the structure of the real decision. A report and a choice are different structures.
Consultation
Bring the system, not a slogan.
We will turn one trade-off into a session people can finish.