Author: Andy Walsh (PlayBrarian)

I’ve run these workshops for quite a few years, varying from full day workshops to just a couple of hours. They are always primarily hands on and we work through a set process allowing small groups to create a rough prototype learning game by the end of the workshop, at which point all the groups…

These workshops cover what I think of as the first half of the normal Lego Serious Play (LSP) approach, as this is most useful when you’re applying the ideas to teaching and learning. Using ideas from Lego Serious Play, we cover the basics of how this approach works, through participants building Lego models similar to…

These can vary in length and emphasis, but are based around the idea of Playful Leadership – not necessarily “playing” as a leader, but encouraging a sense of playfulness and psychological safety so that play can naturally emerge in teams that you lead. All workshops include: Defining play, playfulness, and playful leadership Some benefits of…

This training tries to get away from “this is what someone with ADHD is like”, or “these 3 tools are what your autistic team member should use” that seems to dominate lots of neurodiversity training. Instead, it presents lots of common neurodivergent traits, asking (neurotypical) workshop participants to consider how typical workplace scenarios might impact…