the map of banishment

One of the professors I work with has a game she plays as an anger management strategy, and it’s called “The Map of Banishment.” It works like this: you take a map of the world, any projection, and some colored pushpins or labelled straight pins. Then, as your colleagues or co-workers make themselves deserving of it, you “banish” them by assigning them a pushpin and placing it in some desolate or inhospitable region of the map.

Cheap, educational, and effective. And no one need know that, in your mind, they’re freezing their &%^$$ in Tierra del Feugo or roasting in the sands of the Sahara.