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Escape the Bias: The Hidden Story Challenge

An Immersive, Puzzle-Packed Team Experience 

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Your team enters a room.

 

The colleague you were expecting hasn’t arrived.

 

Through puzzles, games, and challenges at eight activity stations, your team uncovers the hidden experiences of someone navigating exclusion, microaggressions, and unconscious bias — ultimately piecing together their story to “escape” the away day and celebrate their real-world milestone.

The Escape Room Comes To You

Escape the Bias is an immersive, interactive escape-room-style experience where teams must collaborate, decode, and solve a series of challenges to reveal the full story of a missing colleague. Each activity uncovers new aspects of hidden identity and subtle exclusion — from microaggressions to invisible cultural codes — while embedding practical insights into everyday inclusion habits.

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Teams finish the experience with a full understanding of the colleague’s lived experience, unlocking the final video where the colleague reveals their reason for absence — an authentic and personal moment that leaves teams reflecting, connected, and motivated.

Why BARDO?

  • High-energy, fully immersive, and fun while delivering deep learning

  • Interactive puzzles and physical challenges that mirror real-world inclusion issues

  • Structured for reflection and habit-forming behaviour change

  • Flexible for half-day or full-day delivery, on-site

The Session

  • Eight themed activity stations uncover hidden stories of exclusion and identity

  • Playful yet thought-provoking challenges (Jenga, tiny basketball, press releases, visual puzzles)

  • Teams piece together a narrative about a missing colleague as they progress

  • Red herrings and subtle challenges highlight unconscious bias and microaggressions

  • Final reveal: an uplifting, human story that resolves the “missing colleague” mystery

Ideal For

  • Teams needing a high-energy, engaging, and memorable learning experience

  • Public or private sector organisations looking to strengthen inclusive behaviours

  • Groups familiar with escape rooms, immersive theatre, or gamified learning

  • Leaders and employees ready to see the hidden impact of daily workplace behaviours

Investment

  • Half-Day: 3–4 hours — Puzzles, film and reveal

  • Full-Day: 6 hours — Puzzles, film and reveal + Extended reflection and debrief

  • Delivered at your venue, fully facilitated.

 

Fully bespoke alignment to your organisational priorities and budget

Why This Works

  • Makes invisible patterns of exclusion visible in a playful, safe environment

  • Engages participants through fun, curiosity, and problem-solving

  • Balances high-energy activity with deep reflection

  • Embeds habit-forming nudges into daily team interactions

The Experience 

  • Enter a room with eight immersive activity stations

  • Engage with games and challenges that reveal subtle exclusion and identity masking

  • Experience real-life analogues of microaggressions, visual accessibility barriers, and cultural codes

  • Solve puzzles to unlock more details about your missing colleague’s experience

  • Piece together the full story to reach the final reveal and “escape”

What Makes This Different

  • Combines the thrill of an escape room with the depth of an inclusive workplace learning experience

  • Multi-sensory, hands-on challenges mirror real organisational dynamics

  • Focused on learning by discovery, not lecture

  • Provides reflection points and actionable insights at each station

  • Outcome is emotionally resonant, fun, and memorable

What Participants Gain

  • Understand subtle, everyday behaviours that support or undermine inclusion

  • Experience the impact of microaggressions, cultural codes, and masking firsthand

  • Develop empathy for hidden identities in the workplace

  • Build collaboration, communication, and problem-solving under pressure

  • Leave with actionable insights and habit-forming strategies for everyday inclusion

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