Session Descriptions
All sessions are fully customizable to suit the outcomes and themes of your organization or event.
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Keynotes
Learning Across the Lifespan Through Play
From toddler to taxpayer, you will learn how to identify play, why play matters, and how to encourage playful behaviours at any age. Come discover tips and tricks that will leave you inspired to make play the most important part of your every day!
Unleash the Power of Play
What is play? Why is it valued all over the world? Get inspired by stories and tips to increase play in your community
Workshops
Navigating Leadership through Play
Playful experiences define our childhood and shape who we become as adults. However, elements of play can also have a transformational impact on our ability as leaders to effectively inspire growth in our organizations, communities, and personal lives. Studies have shown that a universal set of leadership traits are valued around the world, and through his Graduate Studies in Leadership, Matt Leung has studied the connections between play and many of these traits. In this workshop you will unleash your inner-child, learn about how play builds leadership competencies in people of all ages, and discuss strategies for using play to enhance your leadership skills. Come discover how integrating elements of play into your life will allow you to challenge your own personal biases, communicate more effectively, and solve problems more creatively anywhere from the playground to the boardroom!
Embracing Empathy & Communication Through Play
Our world has become consumed by divisiveness, hostility, and us versus them attitudes. Spontaneous and joyful interactions have become a thing of the past, as we find ourselves more concerned with whether the stranger walking our way shares our values, beliefs, and opinions.
In this workshop you will unleash your inner-child, and use interactive games and activities to learn innovative communication techniques and non-intrusive strategies that will allow you to actively practice empathy. You will explore the impact of assumptions and biases on daily interactions, and discuss how the insights of others can enhance our own awareness and understanding of the world around us. Come discover how integrating elements of play into everyday communication will make your team more productive, more collaborative, and improve workplace relationships!
Enhancing Workplace Culture & Community Through Play
The average adult will spend 90,000 hours at work! That’s 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year, for 45 (or more) years of your life. Combined with time spent sleeping, many of us will spend more time over our lives with colleagues than we will with family and friends. Our relationships with co-workers matter because when we experience positive relationships in the workplace, it can have a powerful influence on our productivity, boost our creativity, and ultimately shape our career. While the importance of cultivating community at work is often overlooked, strong workplace bonds can help reduce burnout, and greatly improve professional effectiveness and job satisfaction.
In this workshop you will learn how you can contribute to building a community of trust and care at work. You will learn simple and interactive teambuilding games and activities that you can lead with your teams to increase collaboration, teamwork, and empathy. Come discover how these strategies have been successfully integrated in remote and in-person work settings, and how you can be a leader in enhancing the positive culture within your work community!
Leave Your Work at Work: Strategies to Perfect Productivity and Beat Back Burnout
Are you feeling exhausted? Frustrated? Maybe you have begun to distance yourself from your work out of self-protective instinct. Burnout can have a powerful impact on our ability to be creative, to build positive relationships, and to maintain work-life balance. It can also result in serious workplace stresses which can cause a significant loss of productivity, and will lead to one in four people leaving their jobs. Worst of all, it can separate us from the sense of purpose that guided us to the careers we are so passionate about.
In this workshop you will learn simple techniques that will allow you to refuel, recharge, and reconnect. You will explore how to integrate these methods into all aspects of your life, and practice simple and effective strategies that will allow you to actively choose a positive mindset at work. Come discover how to integrate more positivity into your professional practice, set meaningful work-life boundaries, increase your productivity, and improve workplace relationships!
Navigating Productivity Through Play
Playful experiences define our childhood and shape who we become as adults. However, elements of play can also have a transformational impact on our ability as adults to be productive, be creative, and maintain positive relationships within the workplace. When the importance of being playful at work is overlooked, it can result in serious workplace stresses which cause a 10% loss of productive work time, and lead to one in four people to leave their jobs. In this workshop you will unleash your inner-child, learn about the intercultural and intergenerational impacts on organization cohesion, and discuss non-intrusive strategies that will create a more playful work environment. Come discover how integrating elements of play into workplace culture will make your organization more productive, more resilient, and improve workplace relationships!
Navigating Non-traditional Spaces through Play
Everyone has cherished memories of play experiences that defined our childhoods and shaped who we are as adults. Often these memories take place outdoors, at a playground, neighbourhood park, or immersed in nature. However not all children today have access to the same stimulating environments conducive to active play. In this session your team will hear case studies from innovative community spaces that have made use of limited, or non-traditional spaces to inspire active play, and discuss simple, effective strategies for creating active play in the spaces in which they work.
Navigating Resilience Through Play
Playful experiences define our childhood and shape who we become as adults. However, elements of play can also have a transformational impact on the ability of children and youth to demonstrate resiliency as they interact with the world around them. Research has demonstrated an intimate link between playful behaviors, and an individual’s ability to be productive, healthy, resilient leaders in the community. These benefits of play are even more important for youth as they learn the coping mechanisms critical to be successful in the classroom and throughout adulthood. In this workshop you will learn about how play builds leadership competencies in people of all ages, and discuss strategies for using play to boost the resiliency of youth in the classroom and in the community. Come discover how elements of play can help youth enhance empathy, eliminate biases, boost communication skills, and cope with difficult situations, at home, at school, and throughout their lives!
Navigating Learning Through Play
Playful experiences define our childhood and shape who we become as adults. In childhood, elements of play can have a transformational impact on children’s ability to integrate curricular outcomes in a way that creates meaning through exploration and fun. In this workshop, you will learn about how unstructured play has been used to facilitate inquiry-based learning sessions about anything from healthy living to citizenship, and community building to leadership with students of all ages. Come discover how integrating elements of play into the classroom will make your school community more creative, innovative, and connected through play.
Energizers
DANCEPL3Y Activation
DANCEPL3Y (dance-play) is a high-energy physical activity program that “plays” with dance while promoting positive mental health through the 3 Rules of PL3Y: Be Positive. Be Fun. Be Yourself. Whether you have 10 participants or 1000, DANCEPL3Y is a great way to get your participants connected and energized through this interACTIVE event energizer!
Networking Games Session
After more than 10 years' experience as a summer camp leader, Matt is an expert at facilitating interactive games for all ages. Matt will work with your event organizers to design activities that align with event themes and outcomes. These games are guaranteed to have all your participants engaged, social, and full of laughs!