Impact Trust • Working glossary

Resilience games

Interactive, war-game-style approaches to building resilience skills with scenarios, simulations and preparedness and responses practicals.

Details

Our Take
Intuitive and appealing - quite a self-explanatory term; the challenge is ensuring games are substantive, not trivial. The distinction from 'resilience gaming' matters: resilience games are the broader category; resilience gaming is a specific methodology with triple purpose.
Examples of Use
Serious games, preparedness training
Synonyms/Variants
Serious games; Simulation exercises; Preparedness games
Typical everyday wording
Gmes that build preparedness skills for resilience