From PowerPoint to Global Impact: The Incredible Journey of Love Land When I first developed Love Land the board game on PowerPoint years ago, I had no idea that I was not only creating a new world on paper but also sketching out the roadmap for a life journey to new shores and dimensions, the size and reach of which I could never have imagined in my wildest dreams. I originally developed Love Land for my personal use in sex education in Swiss schools because, as a passionate teacher and learning therapist, I found the available teaching materials lacking in innovation, interaction, and originality. The video cassettes (!) from the 80s primarily conveyed one thing: prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, traditional gender roles, and very moralistic and heteronormative notions! Other media, like books and worksheets, were not much better: dripping with text and theory, and at best, sparsely enlivened with occasional illustrations. In short, not what I expected from a broad and inclusive sex education curriculum. . On a methodological level, I also missed the playful approach to often taboo topics. With Love Land, I wanted to create a playful and at the same time safe learning environment where young people could gain an overview of the diversity of sexuality, as well as tolerance, security, and knowledge. The concept seemed to work.
After Love Land became very popular in school classes, more and more teachers also showed interest in this pedagogically practical teaching material, which was ready-to-use and, on top of that, a lot of fun. Unfortunately, Swiss educational publishers saw things a little differently and showed very little interest in distributing Love Land.
A pity, but not a reason to give up. I took production and distribution into my own hands and sold a good number of Love Land copies in Switzerland. For me, the potential was thus fulfilled. However, life had other plans for me.
From PowerPoint to Global Impact: The Incredible Journey of Love Land June 2024
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