Liberpulco 2025, Apatin, Serbia. My Game of Village presentation is in the official replay archive, Day 3 Part 2 at 1:58:08.
Game of Village gives children a chance to build a miniature society together. At Liberpulco, I shared why I love this program and what living at Greenbriar has taught me about building community.
Selected excerpts from my presentation follow. Transcription errors and punctuation have been cleaned up. The full recording remains available through the event replay.
Children build a society
This is a game where children get to build a society. They learn math because it’s done on a 1:24 scale. How big should my house be for my three-inch peep, who would be six feet in real life? They have to learn how to do that math. They do area and perimeter. They stake out the area they’re going to homestead.
They make decisions together as a community. Who gets this spot? Who gets that spot? They make their own rules. They make their own currency. They start businesses. They decide if they’re going to have community land or private land or both. And these children are working this out in an environment where the adults serve as commissioners and they’re the facilitators, but they aren’t the bosses.
The children are running things. They literally build their own miniature houses to scale. They build their miniature people to scale.
The most important lesson
They’re learning math, they’re learning history, they’re reinforcing their reading, their writing and their research ability. But the most important thing in my mind is that they’re learning how to get along even when they disagree. And boy, don’t they have something to teach us adults, right? How easily do children laugh it off and go run and play? And how heavily do we carry our stress with one another if we’re going to build a free society?
A real-life Game of Village
We often joke and say we are actually doing real-life Game of Village. And we are.
And yet it remains, outside of parenthood, the most rewarding. Just like having children, choosing to live in community forces you to self-reflect when you are eliciting a reaction from the people you live with. That is pretty uniform. You have a general idea of who you are in that space. When you have people expressing positivity or resistance to you, you know how you are functioning in that space.
It forces you to have strong relationships. It forces you to work through conflict. It forces you to drop your ego. Because if you walk into a community setting and you are so proud that you can’t meet someone in the middle, you won’t stay long because they’re not going to want you there. And I’ve actually seen it play out.
But you have to show up to be heard. You don’t get to not show up to a decision and complain about it later. That’s not consensus, right? You got to show up and participate and find the common denominator, the solution that everybody can agree to.
Give children a voice
This in every school would change the world. Because not only would the children be learning how to get along together, but they would be teaching the adults how to do the same. Because in this game, the adults aren’t in charge. In this game, the adults and the children make decisions together. And guess what? That’s how it is at Greenbriar.
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Watch the Liberpulco 2025 presentation
Open the official Liberpulco 2025 replay. Choose Day 3 Part 2 and start at 1:58:08. The Game of Village documentary appears earlier in the same session as a separate program item.
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Historical presentation from September 2025. This post keeps the April 16, 2026 date of my original draft. Excerpts omit stage interruptions and identifying details about children. The replay is unchanged.