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APPEAL FOR DONATIONS
This is an appeal for donations to help us publish and distribute my online Thiagi GameLetter. I will keep it brief. In 2009, we received $260 in donations from our readers. It costs us much more to keep the newsletter going. (Not counting my time, we estimate that it costs us about $30,000 a year.)

My financial advisor says that I should stop publishing the newsletter and spend my time in revenue-generating activities instead. But I don't want to stop publishing the newsletter because I am addicted to designing new training games and sharing them with my friends.

Can you send a donation to help us continue writing, publishing, and distributing the Thiagi GameLetter? Just visit http://thiagi.com/tgl-appeal.html.

The November 2009 issue contains:

• LEADERSHIP DIRECTIONS, a structured sharing activity for translating principles into practice
• ENVELOPES, a framegame for rapidly designing your own training games
• 20 INTERVENTIONS, a textra game for improving human performance
• An invitation to a game design workshop in Singapore with Thiagi and Tracy
• This month's guest-gamer interview with Leif Hansen about a spark that ignites a whole person
• SCULPTED PLAYFORMATION, an improv game by Leif Hansen for transforming you from being stuck
• A 99-words article on what to do if you get lost by Brian Remer
• Articles by Brian about reinventing the wheel and the importance of taking into account the relationships between the parts of systems
• A review of (and links to) video podcasts about board games with Scott Nicholson
• Tracy's survey about getting certified to conduct a Thiagi workshop
• Results from last month's survey on going green in the workplace

The December 2009 issue contains:

• A new and improved version of the classic job aid, "Laws of Adult Learning"
• 20 REASONS, a textra game that justifies the use of learning activities
• SHAPES AND COLORS, a rapid jolt that explores partial information and hasty generalization
• TIME TRAVEL, an interactive storytelling activity about improving your creativity
• A Guest Gamer interview with Marla Allen, who will make you laugh
• FUN WITH SNOWBALLS for use anytime, anywhere, and in any season 99 words from
• Brian Remer on not severing your links
• Brian's review of MakeBeliefsComix, a website that helps you create your own comic strips
• COMIC RELIEF by Brian Remer, an interesting game that incorporates comic strips
• A link to Roger Greenaway's provocative idea of conducting a debriefing session before conducting training
• Tracy's challenge for achieving world peace
• Results from last issue's single topic survey by Tracy

The January 2010 issue contains:

• An article about synthetic culture activities, which are a special type of simulation game
• A positive psychology activity about five approaches to increasing your feelings of subjective well-being
• An article that identifies 10 ways to waste your training dollars
• A Guest Gamer interview with Scott Nicholson
• A Textra game with the immodest objective of bringing about world peace
• 99 words of advice from Brian Remer on how to ride out life's turmoils
• Articles and activities by Brian about different aspects of breathing
• Information about game design workshops in Zurich and Chicago
• Tracy's single topic survey about new-year's resolutions
• A report on last month's single topic survey
• An invitation to our podcasts, hosted by Matthew Richter

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