Explore your relationship with play as a leader and team member. Meet future students like yourself as well as school alumni who’ll share their experiences of learning and growing with The School of Play.
Are you prematurely aging because of stuckness at work? Do you dream of clarity, alignment and flow for yourself, your team and your organisation? Do you long for control and order amidst complexity and chaos?
Join us this autumn to learn how to navigate complex and chaotic systems and enable them to flourish by living and leading your best playful life!
As I walk around the lake this morning, I’m in awe of the city I have been fortunate enough to settle in with my family – a place of beauty, hope and peace.
One of the places I love to wander and wonder is Willen Lake run by The Parks Trust, a charity dedicated to protecting the parklands and landscapes of Milton Keynes forever.
My path to this place hasn’t been simple or easy. For the longest time, I wasn’t aware this was the place my heart longing for – until I began to occupy myself fully.
What does home mean to you? Where does your heart live?
Winter Online Workshop on Friday, 29 January 2021 – 13.00 – 17.00 GMT
The hustle and bustle of modern life means that for many of us, play has become a luxury we just don’t have the time, energy nor ideas to do anymore. Without enough true play in our daily lives, we become trapped in a vicious cycle of low energy, low creativity, low resilience, low hope and low growth.
Here’s your chance to re-invigorate your new year’s resolutions (or throw away the already old ones and replace them with even newer ones!) in an unexpectedly fun, friendly and productive way. You’ll have the option to work on your own, in small groups as well as the whole group on a range of playful and thought-provoking activities and learn a smattering of fundamental play theories such as the Play Cycle and the theory of Multiple Intelligences to enable you to translate your dreams and wishes into tangible goals. Then you’ll create a master plan you can start to action right away to make 2021 a year to remember.
Workshop Takeaways:
Play Theory: The Play Cycle and Multiple Intelligences
A personalised basic play profile of how you like to play
Fresh thinking and insights on yourself and your dreams, wishes and goals
Your personalised plan for 2021
A personalised and robust strategy on how to achieve your chosen goals for 2021.
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.
What past participants say about this workshop:
“Probably the most fun I’ve ever had in planning for a new year!”
“It didn’t feel like the usual drudgery that comes with planning… I had so much fun planning it felt like cheating!”
“It brought me so much joy just looking at the plan… And I really enjoyed working through the plan over the course of the year!”
“The planning approach is so useful, I’ll be using it to plan for the next new year!”
Find out more abou the workshop here. We look forward to learning and growing together through the power of play!
“We make reality with our minds. And if this is true, then we can also break it with our minds. We can change the way things are by changing our minds about them.”
Lyall Watson, Scientist & Zoologist
With the arrival of the new year comes the announcement of our second national lockdown in the UK for at least the next 6 weeks. The announcement reminds me of a lesson I learned some years ago and it is this: “There’s neither good news nor bad news, only how we receive the news determines it so”.
Four Seasons of Play 2021
And since the show must go on, I’m delighted to announce the Four Seasons of Play, a brand new online play programme to mark, explore and celebrate each season of your life’s play adventure in 2021. Like the Playful Leadership programme, this new programme of workshops are inspired by everything I’ve learned over the past twenty years about how to enable transformational change that is effective, efficient and, most vital of all, enjoyable. Especially in these challenging and interesting times.
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.
Consider this your invitation to play, be it at one of the Four Seasons of Play workshops, or on your own or with your family or your pet. The most important thing now is to keep playing because play prevents our hearts from growing hard towards one another and reminds us of what it means to be truly alive. Play on!
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