LEADING FROM YOUR HEART
Did you know how you lead makes you who you are? And that who you are is how you lead?
Playful Leadership is a unique, intuitive and deeply resourcing approach to cultivating your own leadership based on the powerful quintuplet of Play Science, neuroscience, psychology, coaching and Systemic Constellations. It is grounded in what Portia Tung, the founder of The School of Play, calls Play Alchemy which is made up of the process, tools and techniques for transmuting the seemingly insurmountable challenges we face into positive outcomes so that we can thrive, have fun and get more of what we want done in a VUCA world.
Playful Leadership: Creation Through Play Alchemy
Reconnect with your roots and wings of creativity on this deeply nourishing 3-day in-person course grounded in Systemic Constellations & Play Science
7-9 May 2025 @ Ashridge House, Berkhamsted UK
WHY PLAYFUL LEADERSHIP AND WHY NOW?
The Playful Leadership programme is optimised leadership development because whenever you choose to sign up for a course and join the programme is the right time for you.
Because the process of becoming a person is rarely linear, the Playful Leadership programme consists of five stand-alone courses from which you can choose to best nourish your curiosity and fulfil your needs at the particular time in your career and your life when you need to harness your power of play most.
Find out more about how to create a deep shift in the way you lead by booking a FREE discovery call with Play Alchemist Portia Tung
Rest assured that whichever course or courses you choose to sign up to, so long as you are open to experiencing true play in the warm community of fellow playmakers, you will leave feeling refreshed, resourced and re-energised. And of course all the better equipped, enthused and enabled for a game of catch with what life has to offer or throws at you.
Playful Leadership: Emergence² – Amplify your leadership presence through applied Play Alchemy
Playful Leadership: Transformation – Master the process of transformation by embracing your leadership metamorphosis
Playful Leadership: Rejuvenation – Revisit and reclaim your youthful self to resource your leadership journey
Playful Leadership: Origination – Rediscover the source of your creativity on this homeward bound adventure to your point of origin
Playful Leadership: Creation – Explore your roots of creativity through Play Alchemy
For those who wish to embark on the programme by following the modules in sequence, Emergence² can be used as two bookends to the Playful Leadership programme.
LEADERSHIP TRAINING AT HOGWARTS
Playful Leadership courses take place in the beautiful settings of Ashridge House in Hertfordshire, England, inspiration for J. K. Rowling’s Hogwarts and Chicheley Hall in Buckinghamshire, England a stunning Grade I listed mansion as featured in film and television projects as Pride and Prejudice, The Meaning of Life, and Black Beauty.
Through the magic of Play Alchemy, Playful Leadership courses transforms each location into a uniquely transformative play space where it feels like time stands still – just long enough so that you can better reflect, recharge, rediscover and reclaim the sovereignty of your leadership as you head off on even greater life adventures.
Each property is a tranquil retreat set in acres of parkland, moments from the national rail and road network. Convenient for London, its airports and the Midlands, both locations are easily reachable by train (and a short taxi ride) and by car, complete with extensive on-site parking.
PLAYFUL LEADERSHIP: THE ORIGIN STORY
Having dedicated over 20 years of her professional career in pursuit of the secrets to enabling transformational change in organisations and with individuals – beginning as a software developer, then an Agile Coach before becoming an Executive Coach and Systemic Constellations Facilitator, Portia shares the secrets to making change and transformation happen in a way that is at once innovative, easeful and fun. For life. And for greater good.
This programme began with the Playful Leadership Foundation course launched in July 2019 based on the fundamentals of Play Science and coaching. It was set in the beautiful play space of Chicheley Hall in Buckinghamshire. The Foundation course ran three times before the COVID pandemic spread to the UK in 2020.
As the world of work and leadership recalibrated to the “new normal” and with no time to lose, Play Alchemist Portia Tung played further afield across time and space in search of ways to enable change and transformation that is more effective and efficient than what was already known. Along the way, Portia rediscovered what she calls Play Alchemy made up of the process, tools and techniques for transmuting the seemingly insurmountable challenges we face into positive outcomes so that we not only thrive but have fun in getting more of what we want done in an VUCA world. The result is a complete re-imagining of the Playful Leadership programme beginning in June 2022 based on the powerful quintuplet of Play Science, neuroscience, psychology, coaching and Systemic Constellations.
THE SCHOOL OF PLAY 