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Ritual Play at Work (part 1)
I don’t normally put posts on here, but needed somewhere to dump some travel thoughts about play quickly! (I’m on my way to the Counterplay festival.) Over the last few months I keep being bothered by the thought of ritual play and that we don’t seem to think about this aspect of play as much…
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LILAC Keynote – Playful and compassionate approaches for inclusive Information Literacy instruction
File above are the slides and some extensive notes (including material generated by attendees during the talk) from my Keynote at LILAC conference in Leeds, March 2024. It was called “Playful and compassionate approaches for inclusive Information Literacy instruction“. This covered material on play, playfulness and playful learning, moving onto compassionate pedagogies, then a little…
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Making games for adult learning workshops
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…
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Introduction to Lego Serious Play workshops
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…
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Introduction to Playful Leadership workshops
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…
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