Learning Playground 🏀 Fantastic learning & fabulous facilitation
The creative imagination is an underused resource in learning and facilitation. While our objectives for participants might be firmly rooted in the prosaic and mundane—we can, and should, take advantage of the fantastic and fabulous to help them to get there. 🙌
‘What-if’ is one of the most powerful questions we can ask. Since human language began, speculative storytelling has provided us with ways, not only to explore how things could be, but to move towards making those possible futures a reality. 🔭
Speculative narratives have grown with us, from the first creation myths which sought to explain the world and our place in it, through rich traditions of folklore, to sci-fi tales which mirror and pre-empt our technological and human futures.
There are some topics / learning approaches where speculative narrative seems a natural choice - innovation, futures thinking, change and improvement. But the fantastic and fabulous (as in fantasy and fables) are more important than mere stories - they touch on the deepest themes of what it is to be human, and enable us to imagine, and achieve, the seemingly impossible - whatever the topic. 🤩
Bringing the fantastic and fabulous into our facilitation interactions empowers our learners to free their creative imagination which can then be applied to any problem or issue, achieving insights that are as ‘magical’ as the content which inspired them.
This session will be an interactive exploration of facilitation through the fantastic and fabulous, using a variety of play and games-based tools. 🧩
About the host:
Sarah Le-Fevre is a games-based learning professional who specialises in organisational learning around systemic ‘wicked problems’, and helping businesses spot and exploit opportunities for ethical ‘for good’ innovation. Working with third-party tools, such as Lego® Serious Play®, and games, created by herself and others, she aims to create compelling, immersive learning experiences. She is currently writing a book outlining a playful systems practice approach to delivering impactful learning within organisations.
A real board games nerd, Sarah is considering having her floors reinforced to support the ever increasing weight of the boxes. When she is not designing or facilitating learning games she is the editor of Ludogogy Magazine (an online resource forall things games-based learning, gamification and gameful design), and at the moment, preparing to launch her first Kickstarter campaign, for the weird and wonderful Museum of Impossible Objects. Sarah lives in Oxfordshire with her husband, younger daughter, and a beautiful (but very loud) Bengal cat. Contact her at sarah@ludogogy.co.uk
The Butter Learning Playground is a series of seven sessions exploring practical applications of play, playfulness, and creativity to learning experience design, employee experience design, collaboration, workshop design, and facilitation.
For the smoothest experience, do join using Google Chrome on a laptop or PC or download our desktop app. Since we're usually using MURAL or Miro in our workshops, we recommend joining in with your ad blockers turned off (temporarily) and not in incognito mode.