Tag: Playful Leadership

Time for a Change

We celebrate this spring with a collection of exquisite invitations for co-creation and co-elevation. The more the merrier when it comes to True Play, so feel free to share these invitations with your friends, your colleagues and your loved ones!

The Lila Circle: Where True Transformation Happens – ONLINE

True Transformation begins with exploring our inner life. A unique women’s leadership circle for women ready to reclaim our power and realise big dreams

  • Tuesday 4 March 2025 @ 6-8 pm GMT
  • Tuesday 1 April 2025 @ 6-8 pm BST
  • Tuesday 20 May 2025 @ 6-8 BST
  • Tuesday 10 June 2025 @ 6-8 BST
TRANSFORM TODAY

Four Seasons of Play – ONLINE

Shine the light on your emotional life and enjoy a spring clean towards greater emotional intelligence and management even in the most stressful times

21 March 2025 @ 1-4 pm GMT – ONLINE

TAKE YOUR NEXT STEP

RECLAIM YOUR CREATIVE SOVEREIGNTY

Playful Leadership: CREATION

True embodied transformation takes time, just like the way a caterpillar becomes a butterfly. Practitioner courses are fully immersive 3-day in-person learning experiences where playmakers and organisational archmages gather to explore a particular theme of leadership and organisational transformation.

The next Practitioner course is CREATION 7-9 May 2025 where participants will be reconnecting with their roots and wings of creativity as we explore the trio of Creator, Creations and the Creative process and what it means to be a playful leader.

After completing this 3-day experiential training, participants will experience a powerful leadership upgrade through techniques and ancient technology by transmuting their shadows into their greatest gifts aligned with their life purpose in service of the systems to which they belong.

A Kaleidoscope of Leadership Learning

This February we launch the next evolution of the Playful Leadership programme as a trio of courses available online and in-person to meet the enthusiasm for Play Alchemy worldwide. Find out more here.

Essentials Part 1

PLAY INTELLIGENCE

Reconnecting You with Your Greatest Superpower

Our 2-day introductory training offers a multitude of ways to experience the practical application of core Play theories and models in personal and group transformation.

Essentials Part 2

PLAY TECTONICS

Enabling Systemic Change and Have Fun Doing It

Our Essentials Part 2 training explores how organisations can thrive when we understand the relationships and patterns of interaction within a system using an approach known as Systemic Constellations.

Essentials Part 3

PLAY GENIUS

Emotional Mastery Through Our Play Circuitry

Our Essentials Part 3 training focuses on making friends with our own emotions even in the toughest of situations as we explore the phenomenological nature of leadership.

REGISTER YOUR INTEREST

Wishing you and your loved ones a Playful and Prosperous 2025! ~ With love from Portia The Play Alchemist xxx

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Meet You Second Star to the Right

Dear Playmakers,

As this year draws to an end and we stand together on the cusp of a new year, I’d like to thank you for your warm interest, enthusiasm and commitment in leading more playful lives and enabling transformational change for greater good – be it at work, at home or wherever life finds you.

A Wise Owl Looks Back…

This year has been a rollercoaster ride of fun and growth as the Playful Leadership programme launched two brand new courses in the beautiful play space of Ashridge House, inspiration for Hogwarts, in Berkhamsted, UK.

In spring 2023, we cultivated greater emotional awareness and intelligence on Playful Leadership: Rejuvenation which re-connected us with some of our most powerful  inner resources to overcome the challenges we face.

In summer 2023, I splish-splashed with delight with Robert Digings on the subject of play and leadership in his podcast series Highly Relational – that play could not only be an approach to work but a credible and effective leadership approach I call Playful Leadership.

This autumn brought together the highest number of The School of Play’s alumni at a single event, along with new playmakers, as we accompanied one another on our individual journey back to our collective point of origin on Playful Leadership: Origination to increase our creativity by harnessing our passions, skills, wishes and dreams.

This winter we gathered in my home city of Milton Keynes for a 1-day workshop Glow in Prosperity to explore our relationship with giving and taking through techniques for manifesting abundance so it can percolate in different aspects of our lives.

Meet You Second Star to the Right in 2024

To celebrate the new year, we at The School of Play are merrily preparing a whole host of heart-warming and new ways for you to say “Yay!” to more play in 2024.

Keep your eyes peeled for upcoming events by signing up for The School of Play newsletter-blog here.

The Play in Me bows to the Play in You and Those You Are Important To,

Portia

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“I Do Like to Be By the Seaside!”

The Most Playful Place in the World

Does the arrival of spring leave you heady with the prospect of the promise of the sun, sea and sand? That’s because according to the play experts, the most playful place in the world is the beach. Why leave the weather to chance when you can book yourself on an energising and restorative virtual half-day out by the sea while cultivating your creativity and leadership skills in the most playful place in the world?

Upcoming Workshop: Amidst the Sun, Sea and Sand – An Exploration of Your Relationship with Play

Whether you prefer quiet contemplation under a parasol lying on the warm sand or perhaps making the most opulent of sandcastles or taking a plunge in search of sea monsters, join us in this playful exploration of your relationship with play. You’ll have the option to work on your own, in small groups as well as the whole group as we go on a play adventure that will leave you feeling resourced, re-energised and refreshed inside and out along. You’ll take home with you your personalised play profile to keep you playing long after the metaphorical sand has been washed off your toes.

This workshop is part of the Four Seasons of Play 2021 programme. Each workshop can be enjoyed independently or as a combination of modules in a year-long programme where you’ll learn about true play, how to cultivate your play intelligence and shift towards a play mindset as the seasons change. Play your cards right and you’ll grow as a person as well as a leader by becoming more resourceful, resilient and real in these unprecedented and transformative times.

Workshop Takeaways:

  • Play Theory: Play Types, Change Theory and Attachment Theory
  • Increased understanding of your relationship with change
  • A personalised and more detailed play profile of how you like to play
  • Ideas for enabling change in yourself and others, at work and at home
  • Increased play intelligence in yourself and when working with others.

This workshop is limited to a maximum of 8 participants.

Who would benefit from taking part in this workshop?

The Four Seasons of Play workshops focus on enabling individuals to develop the systemic mindset and skills necessary for an individual to lead effectively – be it yourself, your team, your family or your life. At each workshop, you’ll experience a range of eclectic tools and techniques you are unlikely to have come across before which you could then apply at work and at home.

Where do you sign up?

Join us for a taste of summer and delight your colleagues, family and friends with playful leadership by the seaside. Sign up for the workshop here!

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