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Your corporate game on discrimination

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Organise your discrimination awareness game

Overview

Discrimination is both a management challenge and an ethical issue with a high public profile. Yet it’s too often reduced to visible disabilities and racist behaviour towards others. Shifting limiting beliefs and building lasting personal accountability across your teams is no small task. To engage your employees, spark their curiosity and overturn stereotyped judgements, Arcane Experience offers this investigation with a strong ethical message. Identify your employees’ preconceptions and celebrate diversity, using play as a tool for discrimination awareness-raising. This game was created in partnership with Réseau H.

“The Mentalist” meets disability awareness

Discrimination is a major social issue. Why? Because almost all of us have been on one side of it or the other, sometimes without meaning to. Our awareness of discrimination is therefore often subjective, shaped by our own experiences. Cognitive biases influence us, distorting our judgement and shaping how we think. To challenge stereotypes and embed the messages of your CSR policy, Follow the Brain takes a playful, science-based approach. Your employees step into a “The Mentalist” style adventure and outwit cognitive biases to crack the case.

Objectives

Benefits

Logistics

Analyse the human behaviours behind discrimination, by exploring:

How the brain works and what cognitive biases are
How those biases play out in real situations of discrimination
How players’ own preconceptions shape their judgement.

This investigation game reveals the preconceptions that get in the way of objective judgement.

The session ends with a debrief that brings everything back into a professional context, covering warning signs and best practice at work. Each player receives a booklet at the end of the game to revisit the key points on disability and discrimination awareness.

Raise awareness of disability discrimination without singling out situations within your company.

Use the appeal of TV drama to tackle a real social issue.

Support your teams as perceptions of disability at work evolve.

TIMING

Set-up: 1hr

Game duration: 2hrs (including brief and debrief)

Take-down: 30 minutes

GAME FACILITATION

2 professional actors as facilitators,

plus 1 additional facilitator per 50 players

EQUIPMENT INCLUDED

Mobile app (no personal data collected)

Roadbook, venue map and pen for each team

7 game boards

8 stages, including 1 live stage using sign language

Actors’ costumes (armbands and police uniforms)

One awareness booklet per player

TO BE PROVIDED BY THE CLIENT

The playing space required (one plenary room and 8 areas, indoors and/or outdoors, to set out the clue boards)

Screen or video projector

Sound system (microphone and speaker)

Power supply

A table or high table for the technical setup

A table for the game props (for the actor-facilitators)

One smartphone per team

A wifi connection (recommended if mobile coverage is poor)

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The benefits of a team building game on disability discrimination

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Improve workplace wellbeing

Employee wellbeing isn't just about a pleasant, ergonomic workplace. Wellbeing at work grows out of accepting yourself and others, free of preconceptions and value judgements. It means being able to be yourself, anywhere and at any time, without hiding your true nature or fearing the consequences. Team cohesion is often cited as a marker of wellbeing at work. It's by feeling themselves, as naturally as possible, that your employees will truly thrive within your teams. Contrary to popular belief, 80% of disabilities are invisible. In the spirit of Inside Out, Follow the Brain makes cognitive biases accessible and memorable through an immersive escape room open to everyone.

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Strengthen communication

Communication is the lifeblood of good management. Top-down messaging has had its day, and gamification now gives HR and leadership a way to communicate through play, internally and externally, about the company's medium and long-term strategic direction and its commitments, not least on CSR and sustainability. By breaking down professional barriers and inhibitions, disability awareness team building opens up dialogue on ethical and sensitive social issues that were previously avoided at work. A CSR game encourages informal exchanges between employees and makes the employer's policy easy to grasp. Beyond the internal benefits, the awareness session also lets the organisation communicate externally, strengthening its brand image and developing partnerships. The company demonstrates its commitments by sharing its innovative awareness initiatives. In partnership with Réseau H, a leading authority on human behaviour, we developed Follow the Brain together: a dual communication tool for your different audiences.

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Strengthen your company culture

Company culture covers all the behaviours, shared actions, knowledge, values and common visions of the people who contribute to a company's sustainable development. Raising awareness of discrimination through play helps align everyone's understanding of CSR issues, without talking down to them or lecturing. The collective intelligence generated by the escape room strengthens the sense of belonging and buy-in to company values. Gamifying your CSR approach sparks interest and helps your messages stick. Brought together around a shared goal outside the usual work setting, players test their theories and speak openly. They get to know each other as people and build connections around a shared professional vision. The logical flow of the game routes unites employees around a final message revealed by the employer.

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Réseau H, a trusted partnership

Réseau H is a consultancy and training firm specialising in human ethology. Their strength lies in a hybrid teaching approach drawing on field experience, expertise in disability and insights from neuroscience. Their consultants and ethologists worked hand in hand with Arcane Experience to develop Follow the Brain, born of a shared ambition: to rewrite the rules of awareness-raising through gamified training sessions.

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The process that brings your discrimination awareness campaign to life

Organising an awareness-raising team building event is no small task. Before you start, map out how the day will run. Arcane Experience supports you throughout, handling the organisation and logistics of your corporate event. We offer CSR team building and CSR games that meet your challenges. Trust our expertise to weave your messages into an original, unifying team building experience and make your awareness campaign a success.

Groupe de personnes en réunion d'affaires — One idea, one team building event
Our gamification experts help you find the CSR team building that fits. Once we’ve assessed how aware your teams already are and pinpointed your CSR challenges, we’ll put forward several corporate game options. To make sure your CSR messages stick, we can bring in an ethologist at the end of the session, who translates what the game revealed into your anti-discrimination policy.

Construction de jeux — Producing your event
Once your CSR serious game is confirmed, our team takes care of your ready-to-play team building from end to end. You’ll stay in regular contact with your dedicated point of contact right up to the day. To adapt the scenario of this disability awareness escape room to your venue, we’ll ask you for the floor plans. You can change the number of players free of charge up to 7 days before.

Journée de jeu — And it's the big day
As a team building agency, Arcane Experience handles every logistical aspect of your event: equipment, costumes, facilitators and transport to your venue. Our team arrives on site 1hr 30 before the CSR activity begins to set up. Once the players have been welcomed, the lead facilitator briefs them and the game starts. When time is up, players come together, share their conclusions and debrief with the game masters on site. After the game, our team takes care of the take-down.

Résultat du jeu — It's not over: let's track the results
Track the results of your CSR team building. We send a satisfaction survey to every player and share the results with you. Lead change and accelerate your company’s transformation. We’re also delighted to hear your feedback on our CSR activity and the quality of our gamified solutions. And to make the memory last, we’ll send you the photos of your corporate event on discrimination.

Organise my discrimination game

The challenges around discrimination

Discrimination covers any action that treats one person differently from another because of their personal characteristics. From there, the challenges are many. There are currently 14 personal characteristics listed as grounds for discrimination. Discrimination based on race, colour, disability or sex is prohibited by law. Raising awareness of discrimination is a company responsibility.

A knowledge challenge

Behind every form of discrimination lies a lack of knowledge. People with physical disabilities are better recognised by society today. Even so, 80% of disabilities are “invisible” and often go unspoken. Opening up dialogue and raising employee awareness is a significant challenge for companies. An awareness programme brings invisible forms of disability into the open. It also helps everyone learn to accept difference. A discrimination awareness game lets your teams experience and better understand these issues.

Social responsibility (CSR)

Discrimination has always been central to CSR. The social pillar is about upholding human rights and ensuring a healthy, respectful working environment for all. Organisations put many tools in place to address the issue. Yet theoretical awareness sessions, often seen as preachy and repetitive, rarely win everyone over. Companies are looking for innovative ways to build buy-in and involve their employees. CSR team building reflects your company’s commitments and values while being stimulating and engaging. A corporate awareness game turns employees into active participants. That makes your messages easier to absorb and strengthens team cohesion. And discrimination is just one of the social issues a game can tackle! Find all our CSR games here.

Equal opportunities

Discrimination at work is a matter of company responsibility. Some disabilities, physical ones in particular, are visible at a glance and shape that famous first impression. And once a first impression is formed, staying objective is hard. That’s the halo effect. Cognitive biases can distort how we judge another person. Being aware of your own biases makes them easier to spot and counter, and helps uphold the principles of non-discrimination. Companies therefore have a role to play in making their people more inclusive. This disability awareness session sheds light on the preconceptions rooted in cognitive bias. A company’s inclusiveness comes from understanding the social and ethical issues that drive it. In that sense, it stands firmly for equal opportunities at every stage of the career path.

Social cohesion

A diversity of employee profiles is a strength. The game creates an outside scenario that brings everyone together around a complex, collective problem. In a disability awareness team building, everyone is simply a player. The game grants no special treatment and takes no account of job titles. The range of profiles echoes the complementary nature of your talents, and it’s essential to completing the mission. The collective comes before the individual and strengthens team cohesion. Everyone leaves with a shared base of knowledge and a sense of mutual respect brought out by the game. That sense of belonging supports personal fulfilment: employees feel understood, considered and valued.

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3 reasons to choose a large-scale murder mystery

01 Strengthen communication

In a life-size criminal investigation, players are split into squads chasing the same goal. Any means will do to complete the mission, but communication is the key that unlocks it all! Players have no choice but to cooperate, collaborate and share information to connect the clues and complete a complex puzzle that leads to the culprit. A life-size investigation strips away professional masks and encourages everyone to speak freely. In an escape room, no one knows more than anyone else, since no outside knowledge is required. Every lead is worth exploring and no idea is a bad one. The immersive, engaging nature of the investigation creates real synergy and releases emotions that the workplace hierarchy usually keeps under wraps. Exchanges become natural, instinctive, spontaneous and authentic. That's when personalities come through and a climate of trust and mutual respect takes hold. Fluid, equal communication, and victory is in the bag!

02 Strengthen cohesion

An escape room is teamwork above all, and teamwork means group cohesion. The traditional room-based escape room requires players to form a single entity, one group committed to a shared goal: completing the mission and getting out within the time limit. To do that, players have to work through a complex chain of puzzles that calls for military-grade organisation and a solid team spirit. Everyone contributes and shares their thinking freely. Several strategies can improve their odds. Dividing up the tasks is an excellent way to track the group's progress and run several actions in parallel. Every initiative is valued and every solution shared with the group. Successes aren't credited to one team member but celebrated as a collective win. Investigations and escape rooms break the ice, build connections and strengthen team cohesion. The teamwork built into this interactive format reinforces values of solidarity and mutual support, and boosts your employer brand. The focus is on human interaction. Employees feel considered and valued, take the time to get to know one another and develop a sense of belonging, not to an abstract organisation but to a real group of people. That's why escape rooms are increasingly used by HR teams for recruitment and onboarding new talent.

03 Boost productivity

Boredom and demotivation at work are an employer's two worst enemies, and the main causes of low productivity. The spark of the first few months gives way to weariness, and it's all the harder to rekindle once a routine has set in. Yet a motivated, engaged employee is a happy, productive one. Motivation is what makes your projects succeed and keeps your company thriving for the long term. Choosing a life-size escape room for your corporate event gives your teams a genuine moment of relaxation and enjoyment together. The immersion places players in a parallel fictional world, briefly setting aside professional pressures and any tensions between colleagues. But the benefits don't stop there. The emotion generated by a shared experience lasts, and it follows employees into a healthier, more productive working day. An escape room encourages informal exchanges and gives employees the chance to get to know each other differently, with no pretence. The result? Relationships are built on trust, the working atmosphere improves and productivity rises with it. Play therefore serves workplace wellbeing by nurturing individual wellbeing within a close-knit community. If you'd like to put employee wellbeing front and centre in your company.

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What our clients say

There had been a lot of internal change and the departments weren't pulling together. The working atmosphere needed improving, so we used our annual offsite to run a few team building activities linked to our new CSR policy. Arcane proposed three sessions, including Follow the Brain, which really got our message across about the preconceptions some of our people were facing. Game-based training opened doors for us. An enriching experience in every sense.

For disability awareness week, we wanted to raise awareness of discrimination at work across our departments, and of invisible disabilities in particular. I came across Follow the Brain and was won over straight away! Our people were genuinely surprised by how original the format was and how naturally the social messages were woven into the investigation. Follow the brain helped us hit the objectives we'd set for our awareness campaign!

Leadership wanted to take action on discrimination at work, but didn't want a theoretical session. I called Arcane, who pointed me towards Follow the Brain and suggested adding an ethologist to speak at the end of the game. Our people loved it! They weren't spectators of their own training but active participants, and that made all the difference. Thank you Arcane for an activity that was both entertaining and genuinely instructive.

Your corporate game on discrimination

Follow the brain

Overview