{"id":12882,"date":"2018-04-24T07:05:28","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T07:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12882"},"modified":"2018-04-24T07:05:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T07:05:28","slug":"mindfulness-and-escape-rooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12882","title":{"rendered":"Mindfulness and Escape rooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What&#8217;s an Escape Room?<\/h2>\n<p>Escape rooms are immersive, live games where groups of players are locked in a room and must solve clues and puzzles to escape. Think Da Vinci code meets Crystal Maze. Popular themes include<span class=\"ml__ellipsis\"><span class=\"ml__hidden\">\u00a0exploring Egyptian tombs, defusing cold war bombs, escaping mad scientists and searching for pirate treasure.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Why do this?<\/h2>\n<p>Recently\u00a0Natalie Haynes,\u00a0writer and broadcaster, took a team to find out. She concluded the appeal\u00a0 of escape rooms was due to more than\u00a0a renewed interest in immersive play. Hear how\u00a0Natalie&#8217;s team of psychotherapist Philippa Perry, digital entrepreneur Bejay Mulenga and comedian and puzzle enthusiast Rob Deering got on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio\/player\/b09z3dst?rpSt=escape%20room\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Is an Escape Room an hour long digital\u00a0 detox?<\/h2>\n<p>You surrender your phone when you enter the room.<\/p>\n<p>A digital\u00a0 detox.<\/p>\n<p>No checking your phone for updates for an hour.<\/p>\n<p>No taking pictures to post online.<\/p>\n<p>As you become totally absorbed in solving the puzzles, you are switched off from everything and everyone\u00a0outside the room.<\/p>\n<p>Your only hope of escape is to work with the people inside the room. You must build your team from those around you. There&#8217;s no checking your phone for someone more interesting (or useful?). You share information with the group as your achievement depends on how well you get on with them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12889\" src=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/pexels-photo-327186.jpeg\" alt=\"pexels-photo-327186\" width=\"3128\" height=\"2085\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Team building<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">As well as being great for social team building, companies are starting to use Escape rooms for corporate training.\u00a0A successful escape requires teamwork, communication and delegation, as well as critical thinking, attention to detail and lateral thinking.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Want to know more about Social team Building?<\/h2>\n<p>Get the No. 1 book on it &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/1517362806\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=1517362806&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=invittoevent-21&amp;linkId=ea7151f6370d9fa62c50d374de5c010c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">What are we going to do next?<\/a> &#8211; from Amazon. Kindle and paperback available.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/1517362806\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=1517362806&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=invittoevent-21&amp;linkId=ea7151f6370d9fa62c50d374de5c010c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"\/\/ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;MarketPlace=GB&amp;ASIN=1517362806&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;WS=1&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;tag=invittoevent-21\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0!important;\" src=\"\/\/ir-uk.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=invittoevent-21&amp;l=am2&amp;o=2&amp;a=1517362806\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s an Escape Room? 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Recently\u00a0Natalie &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12882\">More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mindfulness and Escape rooms<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[663,641],"tags":[56,684,685],"class_list":["post-12882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adventure","category-puzzles","tag-escape-room","tag-social-team-building","tag-team-building"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mindfulness and Escape rooms - City Adventurers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12882\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mindfulness and Escape rooms - City Adventurers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What&#8217;s an Escape Room? 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