A coaching board game · Basel
Decided in one afternoon, around a table.
A coaching board game for experienced professionals at a turning point.
Basel city centre · 2–3 hours · 3–4 players · 95 CHF
The route
It’s an actual board game. A board, a dice, 3 decks of cards, a backpack sheet – and a facilitator who is also a coach.
Over 2–3 hours you hike a mountain trail through the Swiss Alps. Each of the 10 stops is a stage of your own career.
The route, end to end
You pack a backpack with what you carried into your first job – your circumstances, your strengths, your limits.
You recall what drove you upward at the start – money, status, curiosity, contribution? And is that still what’s driving you?
You fill your backpack with everything you’ve collected over the years: the degrees, the network, the reputation – and the mortgage, the responsibilities, the “everything depends on me”.
You notice what quietly slid from your backpack while you were busy climbing.
You revisit the best moments of your career and reveal your strongest skills.
The restructuring, the burnout, the morning it stopped meaning anything. You look at yours directly – and find what it actually gave you.
A crossroads. The dice shows which way your gut is leaning; you decide whether you agree with it.
You meet your scariest “what if” – and put an actual number on how likely it really is.
You build a bridge out of 5 things you already have in your backpack.
You choose one of the possibilities that open in front of you – and the first real step you will take after the game.
Swipe to walk the trail
You roll dice, you move, you draw cards, you are asked a question, you find your own answer. If you play in a group, the others become your mirrors – some of the best insights arrive while you are listening to someone else.
It’s a few uninterrupted hours to think about something important, with a clear structure to follow and people at the table who are in the same situation as you.
For you, if you’ve built a solid professional life over 15–25 years and at least one of these is true:
Tick what sounds like you
You don’t need to be in crisis to come. Several of the best sessions have been with people who simply wanted to think clearly while things were still calm.
Not a feeling. 3 concrete things.
Where you actually are on your career path, and which directions genuinely open from here.
You take your backpack sheet home.
One direction, chosen consciously, and one sentence you write to yourself.
Today I realised that
and I promise myself I will
by date
Nobody asks you to open up on command. You come to think about your own situation, in your own words.
The rest you can write down for yourself, and nobody reads it.
That is a rule of the game, with a stop-word if it happens. Everyone gets the same time to speak, so nobody takes up more room than the rest.
If you would rather not talk about yourself directly, you can choose to walk the whole trail as one of 8 fictional characters – and still arrive at your own answers.
At the table
I came to play. I left having revisited 20 years of my life with fresh eyes. What felt like a game became a powerful mirror.
At 50, I wanted to prepare for inevitable change – and the game helped me do exactly that. Revisiting my strengths made me feel less fearful and more ready for what’s next.
A rare combination of fun, depth and unexpected turns. An engaging tool for anyone reflecting on their career path – even better with more people around the table.
Afterwards
The game ends with a promise you write to yourself, with a date on it. Here’s what some of those turned into.
Promoted 7 months
Decided not to leave her job yet. Took on a high-visibility project instead and went for the promotion.
Julia HR Director, FMCG
Transferred 2 months
Decided to move from a regional role to a country affiliate with sharper KPIs and a healthier team. Raised it with her manager the same month.
Vladislava Project Manager, pharma
New role 5 months
Had been seriously weighing freelancing; realised that she actually still wanted to do the same work, but somewhere better. Applied to several companies where she believed her skills would be more appreciated.
Cathy Regulatory Affairs Lead, pharma
Testing ideas
Restructured out. Chose to explore self-employment, left with 3 concrete ideas and started testing them in conversations.
Elena Safety Lead, pharma
Your facilitator
I’ve changed career twice. Once from medicine into pharma marketing, at the beginning of my career. Once – much later, and much more frightening – from a global corporate role into working for myself.
The second one is why this game exists.
I didn’t design this trail. I walked it. Then I drew the map.
In 2023, after twenty years of a successful career in pharma, my department was restructured. My role disappeared. It felt like a disaster. With a great deal of effort, I found a new role inside the same company.
A year later, the second wave hit my new department. And my role. Again.
I felt like Sisyphus – the figure from Greek mythology condemned to push a boulder up a mountain, watch it roll back down, and start again. And I wasn’t the only one. The whole Swiss market was suddenly full of us – experienced specialists, all restructured at once, all looking for a new mountain to climb. Except the mountains were disappearing too.
That was the moment I had to answer a question I’d been avoiding for years: do I want to compete for another job that might vanish again in a year or two, or do I finally choose my own path, where nobody else decides who I should be and what I should do?
I want to be honest about this, because it matters. After the first restructuring, I chose the job. Security, a stable income, the work permit. It was a reasonable decision, and I expected it to hold for two or three years – years I planned to use to prepare for the next wave: sort out my permit situation, build a financial cushion, learn new skills. The next wave came in one.
So the second time I was better prepared, but my list of reasons not to go independent was still long: no solid business idea, no guarantee of success, no monthly salary. What if I fail? I was terrified.
What gave me the courage was one simple thought. No company is going to keep me employed until retirement age anyway. Better to make that transition now, by my own choice, than later, when I would be older, with less energy and fewer options.
So I jumped. At 50.
Eight months later, after testing a few ideas and completing my training and exams, I had landed – as a certified coach who helps other people through their own turning point. My ICF accreditation followed a year in.
In the months when I was deciding on my next move, what I needed most was one thing: a way to lay out my whole career in front of me and to look at it from above, all at once. What I had built, what it had cost me, what I actually still wanted, and which directions were genuinely open. I wanted something useful and enjoyable at the same time. I couldn’t find it. So I built it.
Swipe through my story
40+ professionals have walked the Trail of Change since I built it. Most people leave with valuable insights and important decisions.
If you need exactly that to make your next honest move – welcome to the trail! I am offering you what I most needed myself when I was at a crossroads.
More voices
The game helped me understand where I am, who I am, and what opportunities are actually available to me right now. A reminder that coaching support isn’t just for crisis moments – it’s how you prepare before the storm arrives.
It was liberating from guilt I had been carrying for years. Now I’m confident about how to move forward in a healthy way.
We treat our strengths and achievements as something normal – in the worst case we don’t notice them at all. The game created a meaningful space to celebrate ourselves.
Practical details
150 CHF 95 CHF
per person · until 31 December 2026, then 150 CHF
You walk your own trail, and you also hear how other people at the same stage think – that’s often where your own insight arrives. Best if you’d rather not be the only one in the spotlight.
Open sessions run with a minimum of 3 players. If a session doesn’t fill, you can move to the next date or have your payment refunded – your choice.
295 CHF
The whole session is yours. No waiting for turns, and we can stop and go deeper wherever it matters – so it’s shorter and covers more of your own ground.
Best if your situation is very specific, if you’d rather not do this alongside other people, or if the open dates don’t work for you.
Booking
Sessions are put together by hand, not by a calendar. Tell me what works for you and I will build a group around it.
Basel city centre · 2–3 hours · 3–4 players · 95 CHF
Open sessions run with a minimum of 3 players. If a session doesn’t fill, you move to the next date or get your payment back – your choice.
Why I ask where you work
So that nobody ends up at a table with a colleague or their own manager. Basel is a small world, and that is exactly the fear that keeps people from coming.
Still not sure it’s for you?
Write to me and tell me where you are – I will tell you honestly whether this is the right thing for you right now.
Write to meYour request
I answer personally, usually the same day. Nothing is charged until we have agreed a date.
