Building Community & Well-Being in the Workplace
A moment of levity, learning and connection in a corporate workshop.
Remembering to Play Events offers custom designed workshops and keynote presenations that provide a balance of laughter and learning (Ha Ha's and Ah Ha's!). The emphasis is always on play and powerful experiential learning as a pathway to growth and healthy living.
Workshops can be offered as half, full or multiple day events. They are led using fun, insightful and creative activities, written material and open discussions. Activities focus on balancing kinesthetic, auditory and visual learning, and may include storytelling, art, music and movement.
Skill Sets for a New World
"Play is training for the unexpected." ~ Marc Bekoff
Remembering to Play Events offer workshops and keynotes that provide communication and awareness skills that support individuals and organizations to thrive in today's rapidly changing and uncertain world.
Play teaches us to hold ourselves lightly, open to the new and unconventional, adapt to the unpredictable, and innovate beyond the status quo. It connects us to our intuition, a deeper place of wisdom beyond logical reasoning and the tried and tested, where new ideas can emerge for a new world.
Play invites a new kind of leader, a new way of engaging others, a new way of teamplay, and a new way of creating possibilities for everyone from our children to the community at large.
Specific ongoing benefits include:
Enhanced Relationships ♦ Leadership ♦ Team Spirit ♦ Self-Care
Conflice Resolution ♦ Creativty ♦ Self-Awareness ♦ Productivity
Job satisfaction ♦ Job retention ♦ Reduced Stress ♦ Empowerment
Workshops and keynotes are great for:
Team days ♦ Employee appreciations ♦ Client appreciations
Product launches ♦ Fundraising events ♦ Conferences
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WORKSHOP TOPICS
Here is a quick summary of various workshop/keynote topics Remembering to Play Events offers, and below that is a comprehensive summary of each. If you would like a PDF outline of any topic email info@rememberingtoplay.com.
Leaders at Play
Creative & Engaging Leadership for a New World
Rememberng to Play for Parents, Teachers & Caregivers
Inspiring Joy, Freedom & Self Care
NEW: Remembering to Play Series
Comprehensive Continued Learning for your Organization
Community Engagement
Builiding Creative & Collaborative Relationships
Inspiring Inclusion & Engagement
For Community Living & Family Based Organizations
Facilitating Citizenship & Belonging
Cultivating Intuition
The Heart of Healthy & Productive Decision Making
Leadership from the Inside Out
Opportunity to Learn, Safe to be Reflective, Empowered to Take Action
The Inspired Workplace
Building Values Focused Work Environments
Conscious Communication
Creative, Compassionate & Productive Communication
Artistry of Coaching
Advancing Communication & Relationships
Artistry of Thriving Teams
Advancing Positivity & Productivity
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Leaders at Play
Creative & Engaging Leadership for a New World
Are you being the leader you want to see in the world?
Play teaches leadership skills for today's world. It inspires a new way of leading based in emotional intelligence and an awareness of the needs and trends of the workplace and society. Leaders at Play are open, flexible and innovative, responsive and authentic. They communicate conscious of their impact and foster an environment of creativity and growth. Their authenticity and playfulness blurs the line between professional and personal making them approachable and accepting of different viewpoints. As such, Leaders at Play move from managing others to inspiring them.
For organizations to thrive, leadership must be felt at all levels, not just from the top down. Everyone must take responsibility for their impact and for how they are showing up, and therefore all are considered leaders.
Find your playful edge – where you can grow as a playful person - and discover core values that are unique to your playful Self
Communication skills that inspire inclusivity and creative engagement
Listening, grounded in presence and curiosity
Seeing others, and yourself, as capable, creative and whole
Loosening inhibitions, becoming spontaneous, out of the box and care-free
Strengthening your possibility mindset, turning challenges into opportunities
Balancing practical consensus building with dreaming in the creative process
Exploring the dance of initiating and following in relationships
Bringing the best out of others through acknowledgment & receptivity to ideas
Connecting to your intuition: balance logical reasoning with a deeper knowing
Stress-free choices and tools for sustaining personal well-being
Integrating professional and personal, bringing authenticity wherever you go
Illuminating beliefs, assumptions and judgments
Expanding your emotional range of expression
Applying your learning to practical, real life situations
Building team chemistry through collaborative activities, awareness and fun!
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Rememberng to Play for Parents, Teachers & Caregivers
Inspiring Joy, Freedom & Self Care
When we awaken the joy, freedom and wisdom of our inner child,
we automatically give children permission to stay connected to these aspects within themselves.
Remembering to Play inspires parents, teachers and care givers to live and work from a place of freedom, joy and self-care. It is a reminder to give our intuitive Self a voice, play with our imagination and reclaim the freedom to be expressive and uninhibited. We soon discover that play is not only fun, but productive as well!
Remembering to play is about remembering our Self and the gift we have to share. It opens the door to the wisdom of our child-like heart, and allows us to engage children more fully from this place. As we remember our Self, we practice self-care and support our children to nurture their spirit as well, and express it fully in the world.
Benefits include all of those mentioned in Leaders at Play, as well as:
Recognize the importance of balancing academic and play-based learning
Follow the child’s lead and support a co-creative learning environment
Learn creative activities that promote collaboration and learning for children
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NEW: Remembering to Play Series
Comprehensive Continued Learning for your Organization
Remembering to Play Events now offers a four-part playshop series to support comphrensive, ongoing learning for organizations and the general public. The length of the series is customized for each group with each level being at least one day.
The fundamental purpose of the series is to:
Remember the wisdom, creativity, freedom and joy of being a child
Learn communication and awareness skills that are practical and that inspire collaborative relationships, health, happiness and success
Reclaim our power to create with the natural currents of life, connected to our spirit, and fully expressing our gifts, passions and authentic Self
LEVEL 1: AWAKEN YOUR PLAYFUL SELF
Connect to your inner child and allow it to explore through
creative engagement, curiosity, imagination and the Spirit of Yes And.
LEVEL 2: EXPAND YOUR PLAYGROUND
Increase your emotional range of expression and creativity through the exploration of roles and archetypes, beliefs and judgments, and learn to see possibilities everywhere.
LEVEL 3: INTUITION, CONNECTION & SPACE
Dive into the emptiness of space and discover the creative potential of our intuition, our connection with others and the unknown.
LEVEL 4: INTEGRATION: PLAYING WITH EVERYTHING
Integrate and expand upon your learning from levels 1-3 using activities that promote diverse levels of communication and awareness skills. Sharpen your playful senses and find imaginative ways to apply your wisdom.
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Community Engagement
Builiding Creative & Collaborative Relationships
Community Engagement supports organizations to create a cultural shift away from making decisions for others, towards making decisions with them in creative and collaborative ways, thereby enhancing participation from all members of a community and developing partnerships.
Communication and awareness skills such as curiosity and listening
Enrolling others through supportive decision making and building trust
Personal values that inspire community engagement
Reigniting the fire for community engagement
Expanding creative thinking and the capacity to see possibilities everywhere
Cultivating receptivity to ideas and releasing control
Balancing planning and advising with curiosity and stepping into the unknown
Proactively designing relationship structures and personal impact
Exploring limiting assumptions and beliefs
The importance of playfulness, imagination and fun when engaging others
Look at best practices / what’s worked and what could be done differently
Implementing internal support structures and sustainability
Applying the learning to specific work situations
Creating a personal vision for community engagement
Team building and team play
Getting to know your peers and having fun!
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Inspiring Inclusion & Engagement
For Community Living & Family Based Organizations
Facilitating Citizenship & Belonging
Inspiring Inclusion & Engagement is customized for people working in areas such as community living or family based organizations as way to create a cultural shift away from traditional caretaking, towards facilitating citizenship and belonging in the people they serve. This includes facilitating the role of natural supports and networks such as friendships, family and other community members.
Benefits are similar to the ones listed above in the Community Engagement outline. They are simply customized towards this specific target audience. The essential benefits would include:
Communication and awareness skills for supportive decision making
Seeing others as capable, creative and whole
Building trust, receptivity to others, and the capacity to release control
Exploring creative and collaborative ways to support others in their reality
Balancing planning and advising with curiosity and stepping into the unknown
Exploring limiting roles, assumptions and beliefs around engaging others
Reconnecting to the importance of play when engaging others
Exploring personal values that inspire inclusion and engagement
Creating a personal vision and action plan to apply your learning
Getting to know your peers and community through team play
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Cultivating Intuition
The Heart of Healthy & Productive Decision Making
Intuition is the knowing of something
beyond time, space, reason or the use of prior knowledge.
What would be different if you led from your intuition more often?
Where can you begin answering your intuition right now?
Explore the difference between the intuitive and logical minds
Discover different characteristics of intuition so you can better recognize it
Understand how intuition supports clarity, ease and decision making.
Play fun and interactive games that cultivate intuition
Learn practical tools for connecting to intuition and building self-confidence
Expand creative capacity and resourcefulness on current life matters
Become aware of negative beliefs that limit your intuitive capacity
Discover your intuitive edge – where you can begin acting on your intuition
Explore ways you can continuously harness your intuition
Learn how you can support others to connect to their intuition
Learn about the ethics of using intuition
Decrease stress and improve overall well-being
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Leadership from the Inside Out
Opportunity to Learn, Safe to be Reflective, Empowered to Take Action
For positive and productive change to occur in an organization, each person must see him/herself as a leader. A commitment to become aware of one’s impact, values, beliefs and level of contribution are essential foundational pieces of an organization where everyone acts with personal responsibility and empowerment.
Design a safe working alliance with agreed upon guiding principles
Explore rules, beliefs, attitudes and behaviours
Identify roles that limit effective leadership
Expand your personal range of authentic expression
Illuminate values and learn how to make choices from them
Learn to communicate in a way that creates safety and openness
Practice a system of offering and receiving feedback
Discover the value of receiving feedback on your leadership style from others
Recognize strengths in one another versus weaknesses
Learn how our judgments of others can be used as a clue to support leadership
Choose action steps to express your new sense of authentic leadership
Design a system of accountability to support implementing an action plan
Discover the importance of levity in your leadership style
Build great relationships with your peers and have fun!
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The Inspired Workplace
Building Values Focused Work Environments
What does an inspiring workplace and life look like to you?
Shift your focus from problem solving to inspiring solutions
Learn the difference between managing others and inspiring them
Explore powerful communication skills that connect you to others
Discover personal values and where to express them
Illuminate the gift of your shadow side or hidden values
Explore emotional functions / roles we take on and how they help and hinder
Expand creative capacity, freedom to choose, and personal balance
Move from reactive to proactive decision making
Create a personal vision for how you want to express yourself in work and life
Participate in fun and interactive activities that support team building
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Conscious Communication
Creative, Compassionate & Productive Communication
Conscious Communication reminds us that communication can only really be effective if we communicate with the human being versus the human doing. When we make this shift of focus we engage people more authentically leading to creative, compassionate and productive dialogue.
Learn communication skills and coach-approach language such as:
Engaging questions
Three levels of listening
Acknowledgment through empathy, appreciation and celebration
Making clear observations
Empowering requests / asking for what you want or need
Saying No
Giving feedback
Learn to see people as naturally creative, resourceful and whole
Design safe communication environments
Discover your core values and how to honor them
Become aware of body language and its impact on others
Explore where you get stuck in communication – your communication edge
Become more receptive to other people’s ideas
Learn the importance of solution focused (versus problem focused) language
Apply your learning to real life situations
Build great relationships with your peers and have fun!
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Artistry of Coaching
Advancing Communication & Relationships
Co-led with Joni Mar, BA, BJ (Hons.), CPCC, MCC - Master Certified Coach
Artistry of Coaching is designed for professionals of all levels, including executives, managers and field staff, as an introduction to co-active coaching skills. Participants will:
Learn the difference / benefits of coaching versus being directive or advising
Identify ‘coachable’ moments and how to apply coaching skills
Get hands on experience of practicing and applying basic coaching skills of:
Three levels of listening
Asking powerful questions
Being curious/not knowing
Acknowledging and championing what’s working well
Requesting and accountability
Giving and receiving corrective feedback
The inclusive spirit of Yes And versus Yes But
Designing an effective and safe coaching relationship
Learn to meet and communicate with others in their current reality
Experience live coaching demonstrations from certified professional coaches
Team build through authentic appreciation and acceptance of one another
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Artistry of Thriving Teams
Advancing Positivity & Productivity
Co-led with Joni Mar, BA, BJ (Hons.), CPCC, MCC - Master Certified Coach
Artistry of Thriving Teams is an insightful and fun 2 or 3 day workshop for organizations committed to fostering team understanding and unity, improving communication and enhancing effectiveness.
The team benefits from extended time together and achieves
4 key outcomes:
1) Identify and process current challenges and opportunities within the team
2) Understand their own default behaviors and assumptions so they can create positive relationships with one another
3) Team building so that they are aligned as a unit
rather than as separate individuals
4) Learn specific skill sets that foster an empowered working environment
for more productive relationships
“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect, but by the play instinct.” Carl Jung
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Corporate Play
Families that play together, stay together. The same is true for corporations.
“What soap is
to the body,
laughter is
to the soul."
~Yiddish Proverb
"If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play."
~ John Cleese
