The Verse

The Verse is a United States-based company located in Berkeley, California. It is a network of communities focused on transformation and growth. The Verse employs 28 people and generates $5 million in annual revenue. The Verse cultivates an ecology of practices to reimagine a shift in consciousness through three main areas: art, gaming, and education. In the art realm, they collect, crowdsource, and curate art centered around themes like awe, prosociality, perspective taking, and empathy. Their positive gaming initiatives focus on building game mechanics that promote mindfulness, contemplation, and prosociality. They also develop tools to measure the impact of these mechanics on well-being, mental health, and consciousness. The Verse's education model is emergent, based on systems, play, and design principles, including "Gaming Literacy." The Verse's distributed structure allows for smaller, focused nodes of interest to incubate experimental initiatives. Simultaneously, the wider network develops and organizes activities with broader scope. For more information, visit versebuilding.com.