Cats & Ladders
Cats & Ladders is a lighthearted conversation and connection board game designed for families, workplaces, classrooms, community organizations, and team-building events.
By blending storytelling, humor, and personal reflection, the game guides players to discover common ground, celebrate progress, and strengthen their relational bonds. It is highly customizable, offering variations like a Workplace Edition for professional team-building and an Icebreaker Edition focused on gathering "Connection Points" by finding shared traits.
The Outcome is fun. Connection.
Stress management, resilience, nervous system regulation, recovery habits.
Game Goal
Game Goal and Outcomes
The primary goal of Cats & Ladders is to provide a fun, witty, and low-pressure way to get to know your peers in a meaningful way, helping players build deeper relationships while laughing together.
Key Resulting Effects:
Resilience & Setback Acceptance: Trains the brain in cognitive reframing by teaching players to celebrate wins while gracefully accepting life's unexpected twists.
Lowered Stress: Leverages shared laughter to actively reduce stress, decrease cortisol, and build warm, positive memories.
Empathetic Communication: Boosts conversational confidence, active listening, and empathy, especially when talking to people you do not know well.
A Shared Finish: Under standard rules, the final square requires players to share one thing they learned about another player before crossing the finish line, ensuring that the game concludes as a collective celebration of the group.
Includes: Curriculum workbook and handout. 6 user log-ins to the Peak Mind app for continuous learning between board game play. You will receive an email to provide the 6 users whom you will grant free 6-month access to the app. JoinPeakMind.com/App
Cats & Ladders
Cats & Ladders is a lighthearted conversation and connection board game designed for families, workplaces, classrooms, community organizations, and team-building events.
By blending storytelling, humor, and personal reflection, the game guides players to discover common ground, celebrate progress, and strengthen their relational bonds. It is highly customizable, offering variations like a Workplace Edition for professional team-building and an Icebreaker Edition focused on gathering "Connection Points" by finding shared traits.
The Outcome is fun. Connection.
Stress management, resilience, nervous system regulation, recovery habits.
Game Goal
Game Goal and Outcomes
The primary goal of Cats & Ladders is to provide a fun, witty, and low-pressure way to get to know your peers in a meaningful way, helping players build deeper relationships while laughing together.
Key Resulting Effects:
Resilience & Setback Acceptance: Trains the brain in cognitive reframing by teaching players to celebrate wins while gracefully accepting life's unexpected twists.
Lowered Stress: Leverages shared laughter to actively reduce stress, decrease cortisol, and build warm, positive memories.
Empathetic Communication: Boosts conversational confidence, active listening, and empathy, especially when talking to people you do not know well.
A Shared Finish: Under standard rules, the final square requires players to share one thing they learned about another player before crossing the finish line, ensuring that the game concludes as a collective celebration of the group.
Includes: Curriculum workbook and handout. 6 user log-ins to the Peak Mind app for continuous learning between board game play. You will receive an email to provide the 6 users whom you will grant free 6-month access to the app. JoinPeakMind.com/App
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