Training
A selection of the courses I run, please ask for bespoke offerings. Happy to travel within the UK or internationally to deliver any of these, or to deliver talks online around any of these topics. Online normally slightly cheaper as “in-person” includes travel costs.
Playful Teaching Approaches
Half day workshops on using play and playfulness in teaching or training adults, with some theory, but mainly practical and playful exercises.
Typically £950 including all costs for workshops within 2 hours of where I live in North Yorkshire, may be slightly more (for travel & accommodation) for further away.
Introduction to Playful Leadership
Always customised, but typically half day covering the benefits of play in organisations and for ourselves, together with how we might start becoming a playful leader. More details available.
Typically £1,500 including all costs for workshops within 2 hours of where I live in North Yorkshire, may be slightly more (for travel & accommodation) for further away.
Making games for adult learning
A half day of introducing some ideas behind using play and game based learning and following a process to build some (non-digital) prototypes. More details available.
Typically £950 including all costs for workshops within 2 hours of where I live in North Yorkshire, may be slightly more (for travel & accommodation) for further away.
Supporting Neurodivergent workers
Always customised, between an hour and half a day aimed at illustrating to a neurotypical group of workers what is may feel like to be neurodivergent (Autistic, ADHD, Dyspraxic, etc) in different workplace scenarios, working towards some ways of supporting your neurodivergent colleagues most effectively. Works really well aimed at groups of managers, including how to get the best out of neurodivergent members of your team. Shorter sessions with less interactivity can be delivered online (which would be cheaper). More details available.
Typically up to £1,500 including all costs for workshops, may be slightly more (for travel & accommodation) for further away.
Introduction to using Lego for adult teaching / training
Using ideas from Lego Serious Play, we cover the basics of how this approach works and reflect on how it might be used in our own setting. Can be online, so delivered to anywhere in the world, (with Lego posted out) or in person. More details available.
Typically £950 including all costs for in-person workshops within 2 hours of where I live in North Yorkshire, may be slightly more (for travel & accommodation) for further away. Slightly different costs for online depending on number of attendees (maximum 14 for online).
Bringing more play into your workplace
Play has lots of benefits in the workplace, this workshop briefly covers these benefits (from the research literature); explains the difference between play, playfulness, and games; and playfully introduces ways in which we can encourage a sense of playfulness in the workplace in order to enable play to emerge. We will gently play in this session, not in a scary way I promise! (Currently working on a individual and online version of this spread over multiple weeks of content.)
Typically up to £1,500 including all costs for workshops, may be slightly more (for travel & accommodation) for further away.
I’m currently working on new workshops, including “Build your own leadership model”, where participants will reflect upon their beliefs and values around leadership, how those might fit within their wider work culture, then take elements from existing leadership models to consider how they can build their own consistent approach to leadership and management. I may also adapt this to run within a single organisation to help build consistent, or complementary, leadership approaches within a management team.
Sessions open to all to book, more information on Eventbrite.
Playbrarian
I run standard and bespoke training sessions on playful and creative teaching approaches for adults, playful leadership, and neurodiversity in the workplace. In person and online.
You can find me on Social Media, mainly as @Playbrarian.uk on Bluesky, as well as on LinkedIn
Playbrarian - trainer, speaker, writer. 