<aside> 💫 In July, Gabriela Constantinescu and Alex Poe from Playlearn have immersed the community into a gamified learning experience on LinkedIn and WE HAD A BLAST!
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The community faced a big challenge for the first week of July: Donut - the Slack buddy that randomly matches us for coffee every two weeks was kidnaped by Ruoy the Shaker. What followed was a collective quest to gather 300 'learning shards' to free Donut.
Luckily, we weren't alone. Walt the Messenger was our guide in this magical journey.
<aside> 1️⃣ The first task was to create a secret identity and go under disguise. We were also introduced to this far away land called Kraftia and have learned the story of Ruoy the Shaker and his mother Eda. Check out the original LinkedIn post here and here.
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And the Shakers didn't disappoint! 😂
<aside> 2️⃣ The second step was to meet in Eda's cave and meet a learning rebel called Traian Bruma who founded The Alternative University in Romania, an inspiring story about a self-directed, human-centered, and peer-to-peer learning space. Watch the recording below 👇
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/secure.notion-static.com/603abafb-44ad-4703-bc41-0052b94476a4/Traian__LD_Shakers_.mp4
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<aside> 3️⃣ The third challenge we needed to pass was to share our views on self-directed learning.
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<aside> 4️⃣ Yet another secret meeting was in the books, this time together with Perry Timms who opened up the conversation around a different kind of HR. Watch the recording below 👇
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/secure.notion-static.com/ba5ce28e-b806-479c-a2a7-9f42292ae39b/zoom_0.mp4
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<aside> 5️⃣ What happened next wasn't something anyone has expected! The mighty Ruoy himself joined the community and started threatening everyone!
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<aside> 6️⃣ Luckily, Walt the Messenger invited us to for the reflection session using the Chambr game so we can collect some more learning shards. Chambr is a thoughtfully designed game you can use in a variety of team settings. If you'd like to learn more, feel free to contact Alex or Gabriela 😉
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<aside> 7️⃣ Just when we thought we are approaching the end of our journey , we found ourselves at a cross-road, facing our next challenge. We needed to guess where Ruoy is hiding Donut, and the community decided to head to the mountain. Little did we knew the danger that lies ahead: a giant octopus with a riddle we needed to solve in record time!
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