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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">CHIFOO Nov 2025 - The Design of Change: How Heroes, Monsters, and Rituals Shape Transformation</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2025-11-06T18:30:00" datetime="2025-11-06T18:30:00">Thursday, November 6, 2025 from 6:30</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2025-11-06T19:30:00" datetime="2025-11-06T19:30:00">7:30pm</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202397714'><span class='fn org p-name'>Virtual via Zoom</span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <p>Transformation has a shape, and we’ve been playing it for millennia.</p> <p>The Rite of Passage is an ancient yet cutting-edge, cross-cultural design for navigating change and generating transformation. We can find it anywhere there is human change (including in the design of tabletop role-playing games). Whether you’re launching a product, shifting your creative purpose, or leading through uncertainty, there is a common framework for mapping our world from what was to what’s next while helping us create meaning in the space between.</p> <p>We will explore:</p> <p>Why understanding and systemically applying the Rite of Passage is critical for us to successfully navigate and influence, with agency, a constantly evolving, Al-saturated world. Examples of Rites of Passage found in all areas of human change, including within groups, social movements, and transformative innovations. How the tabletop role-playing game, as a microcosm of the Rite of Passage, acts as an experiment for transformation that can be applied to the actual world. An invitation to take part in that experiment.</p> <p>Bio: About Thor Madsen</p> <p>Thor Madsen helps people and organizations navigate meaningful change, whether creative, structural, or personal. He has worked across tech, media, and education, and recently completed a graduate thesis at Reed College exploring how rituals and role-playing games reflect and rehearse actual-world transformation. Through his firm, ThinkResults LLC, he blends strategic advisory with immersive design and cultural research.</p> </div> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="url u-url" href="https://chifoo.org/event/the-design-of-change-how-heroes-monsters-and-rituals-shape-transformation/">Website</a></li> </ul> </div>