About The Samurai Game
The Samurai Game® is considered by many to be the most unique, intense and challenging leadership and teambuilding experiential simulation available anywhere. Tens of thousands of individuals from around the world have participated in it, through organisational and corporate trainings & retreats, university and school leadership courses, and personal development programs. The game was invented, written, and first performed in 1977 by George Leonard, author, award-winning editor, musician, Aikido instructor and pioneer in the Human Potential movement.*
Throughout the game you will have a chance to discover your inner samurai and polish your leadership skills. You will learn to apply the the code of bushido as a way of navigating through the game to gain awareness of personal behaviour and responses to stress and confrontation. By participating in this unique event you will become a one-time only group that shall never exist in the same way again, just like an appearance of a unique shooting star that can never again be captured in the history of human experience. Even if you’ve been to a Samurai Game® event before, you are guaranteed to never have the same experience twice.
About The Facilitator
This edition of the event is organised by Lawrence Warry, a certified facilitator of The Samurai Game® and owner of Shinyu Leadership Development. Lawrence is the first officially certified Samurai Game® facilitator in the Netherlands and has been offering public and corporate Samurai Game® workshops since March 2013.
“As a 5th dan Aikido instructor, I’ve had a lengthy background in martial arts before meeting Lance Giroux, a worldwide Samurai Game® facilitator coordinator, in 2009. When Lance visited the Netherlands the following year and told me about his work, I became enthused and knew this was where my path is taking me. Without hesitation, I signed up for facilitator training and, after a three-year programme of training and experiencing the game at different worldwide events, I stood up and facilitated my first workshop in March 2013. Since then I’ve run multiple workshops, each one very different to the other, and leaving profound impressions on me and the participants. There is so much potential for the Samurai Game® to have a positive impact on our society today. I’m looking forward to meet new groups of people and guide them in The Samurai Game® for many years to come!”
— Lawrence Warry
Date and time: Friday, 23.09.2022, 10:00 – 18:00
Location: CIRCL, Amsterdam Zuidas, Gustav Mahlerplein 1B, 1082 MS Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Group size: Maximum of 25 participants
Requirements: Participants who act in a leadership role. No specific level of physical fitness and no background in martial arts required.
Sign-in deadline: 23-07-2022
Registration: To sign up for the next edition of this unique event, please click on the “Sign up” button.
“The Samurai Game was a powerful and deeply engaging leadership training experience. It is far more than a teambuilding exercise; it is an intense experiential simulation that invites participants to observe how they respond under pressure, how they make decisions, and how they show up in moments of stress, uncertainty and confrontation.
What made the experience particularly valuable was the quality of the facilitation. Lawrence Warry is clearly a highly experienced facilitator with a strong background in leadership development, martial arts and the deeper philosophy behind The Samurai Game. He held the space with confidence, clarity and presence, allowing the group to fully immerse itself in the process while also creating room for reflection and learning.
I would recommend this experience to anyone interested in leadership, personal development, team dynamics and gaining a deeper awareness of their own decision-making mechanisms and behavioural patterns.”
— Monika Matuszewska
* THE SAMURAI GAME® was created by George Leonard and may only be delivered by facilitators trained and certified by The Leonard Family Trust.
© 1977 George Leonard. All rights reserved worldwide.
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