#24 - NASAGA Award

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The IFILL/RAYNOLDS Award

There's an organization called the North American Simulation and Gaming Association (NASAGA)

Their slogan: "Playful Methods. Serious Results." should make my interest in this group vividly clear. And even more vividly clear when you take into account that I was one of the keynote speakers for this year's conference. (You can download my speech here.)  Which was how I learned about an award they give, called the:

IFILL/RAYNOLDS
Memorial Award for Outstanding Contributions to Simulation Gaming

Here's their description:

The Award:

At its annual conference, NASAGA recognizes one of its members who develops and/or uses simulation games with joy and serious purpose, in the spirit which our dear and longtime friends and colleagues Don Ifill and Gennie Raynolds brought to all their work, and specifically to their work with simulation gaming. Gennie and Don, who died within two months of each other in 1995, were our first active members to die.

Criteria:

The recipients work should respect and make use of the power and spiritual richness within practical settings. In an exemplary way, the work should:

• Foster a sense of community among those who interact with it.


• Deepen understanding of a cultural, organizational, and/or global common good as it provides for interaction with the situation(s) and/or system(s) being modeled.


• Enable active, positive listening by participants to themselves and/or those different from themselves, enhancing their understanding of themselves and others.


• Contribute to strengthening and/or changing an organization's or group's climate and spirit while building a deeper understanding of it's purpose.

What a profound honor it must be to get an award like that - an award for fostering community, deepening understanding of a common good, enhancing people's understanding of themselves and others, building a deeper sense of purpose. What wonderful things to say about someone's work. I know, because this year they said it about mine.

Tee hee.