In addition to having a lot of fun, visiting escapade rooms helps us to move our minds and develop our skills, while reinforcing what we have learned so far. This is an innovative and interesting way to keep fit and train our team communication , making them ideal for people of all ages.
Homo Ludens
In the first half of the last century, Dutch scientist Johan Hoyzinha wrote a book entitled Homo Ludens - a letter. the person playing . Even in the first years after its writing, it revolutionized our understanding of civilization as how we learn and gain valuable life experiences.
The work continues to be the subject of research to this day. In it, the author steadfastly states that it is what we play that helps us to grow and accumulate the necessary knowledge and experience. In addition, in this way, we also reinforce what we have acquired in the past.
In his work, Heusinha notes that children's games are a kind of imitation of the lives of adults, as well as the way they prepare for it. But most importantly, at the same time, children are having fun this way - and not just them. It turns out that adults also relax and maintain their mental and physical form through various games.
The lesson is quite eloquent: as little ones, we play to absorb the necessary knowledge and skills for our future in adulthood. When we grow up, our playing time may be diminished, for some it will disappear significantly or completely - but it is devastating to us both physically and spiritually. Therefore, in order to keep our brains and our bodies young, we must continue to play at every stage of our lives. There are different ways we can do it in reality, at any age - by attending interactive performances, puzzles, creative activities, different variations of logic games for one , two or many players, in teams or individually. One of these ways is to visit escapade rooms where the group has to deal with a series of obstacles and riddles to find a way out of it.
For small and adolescents have escape rooms that are specially adapted for them. There, they can have fun while developing some of the important qualities needed to deal with the challenges of reality in the future.
Escape rooms and children's education
Escape rooms can also be used in the online learning process, adding a game element to the routine assimilation of material. Depending on your interests and educational background, a group of children may also face an escapade room that aims to develop a range of abilities - for example, more logic, math, and physics for children who intend to specialize in the exact science, or literary and creative mysteries for the humanitarian .
Escape rooms improve communication processes
Although the purpose of these fun activities is usually to spend our time pleasantly and perhaps learn something or challenge our mind or body - undeniably, all-important things, the most important point in the games is none of the above.
One of the best things the game gives us is communicating with other players . This is how we accumulate a particularly useful social experience by getting to know others in a dynamic situation. Thanks to them, by spending their time in an interesting and entertaining way, children and teenagers can master fundamental communication skills.
Escape rooms provide the opportunity for a relatively large, yet compact, group of people to interact with each other in a new and curious environment, facing different intellectual challenges. Therefore, they are especially suitable for team building, especially in those areas of business where the need for solving complex problems in a team of people arises every day.
Escape rooms and successful teamwork
It is a good idea, for example, to send a newly formed team within our organization or the latest generation of young staff, along with a few seniors and managers . The presence of senior and senior executives is necessary to enable them to play the role of a soldier between a completely unfamiliar team at the outset and to assist decision- making in critical situations , as is actually the case. Such team building will help the successful and rapid collaboration between members of a team from the beginning. This way, they will be able to get to know each other, taking into account their strengths and weaknesses, as well as the strengths, qualities and weaknesses of their colleagues.
Escape rooms are also suitable for long established teams, as they usually either accumulate too much tension or overcome boredom and monotony . In the absence of timely measures, this could also escalate as an employer to the loss of one or more members of a valuable team, and sometimes the whole team may be separated due to unsatisfactory stress management or insufficient challenges in the job routine.
In addition, escaped rooms help us to develop indispensable qualities such as strategic, creative and fractured thinking, flexibility, cool-heartedness , which are of particular importance for our good performance in our professional lives. Through the game, we learn to communicate fully in a group - and it is especially important for her to be patient with others and listen to what they have to say.
In order to solve the riddle of an escape room , we must maximize the ability of each team member, because the outcome is usually hidden behind an amalgam of logical and creative tasks . Here, things are not about the "genius" of a particular person, but the skills and qualities that can be offered to his team by individual members, because there are skills that cannot be developed easily or at once.
When it comes to, for example, visual puzzles, optical illusions and obstacles suggesting the use of so-called. photographic memory, we will need those teammates in whom it is better developed. But not every thing is one that has no learning . For some, we only need a little incentive, and yet we learn the most quickly and easily from our own kind, so that each of us has a very real chance of leaving the escaped room that has learned something new.
In a family environment, escaped rooms can give us the opportunity to impart some of our skills and experience to our children, as well as to achieve greater closeness and cohesion with one another.
