Playing with Purpose

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How Experiential Learning Can Be More Than a Game

By Steve Hutchinson and Helen Lawrence

Summary

Playing with Purpose guides facilitators, coaches, managers, and trainers in creating engaging and meaningful learning experiences. It explores common challenges faced in training sessions, classes, and meetings, offering creative ways to transform simple household and office items into powerful teaching tools. The book covers key themes such as leadership, teamwork, communication, equality, diversity, feedback, and personal effectiveness, alongside practical energisers and problem-solving exercises.
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This book is ideal for anyone involved in facilitation, coaching, training, or people development seeking innovative, experiential methods to enhance their sessions and foster impactful learning.

Shows how a facilitator, coach, manager, people developer or trainer can invent or reinvigorate an artificial learning experience and make it so much more than a game. This title looks at a range of dilemmas, challenges and problems faced by those who want to run memorable training sessions, classes and project meetings.

Description

Playing with Purpose shows how a facilitator, coach, manager, people developer or trainer can invent or reinvigorate an artificial learning experience and make it so much more than a game. The authors explore a range of dilemmas, challenges and problems faced by anyone wanting to run memorable training sessions, classes and project meetings, demonstrating how to extract powerful lessons from the simplest of household and office objects and situations.

The exercises and ideas outlined provide a focused examination of a range of training aims and outcomes, including leadership, teamwork, communications, equality and diversity, feedback, and personal effectiveness; as well as general energisers, closers, and problems to be solved.

Steve Hutchinson and Helen Lawrence believe that seeing their sustainable, creative approach to experiential learning explicitly laid out will give you the confidence to develop your own solutions.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781409408055

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 June 2011

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 174.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 486g

Pages: 216

Collections

Business & Entrepreneurship Education & Reference Helen Lawrence Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology Steve Hutchinson

About the Author

After completing his PhD in Behavioural Ecology and working in academia, Dr Steve Hutchinson led development programmes at the Universities of York and Leeds. He now owns and runs his own development consultancy and has designed and led acclaimed courses and events for a huge range of organisations and institutions, both in the UK and abroad. A highly skilled facilitator and trainer, he is both a Vitae GRADschool national course director and a programme director for the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education. He is a qualified trainer, coach and practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. He writes articles and chapters on a range of topics from creativity to leadership and motivation. Playing With Purpose is his second book. Dr Helen Lawrence completed a PhD in Sociolinguistic Variation and worked in the academic sector for a number of years, publishing, teaching and lecturing. Discovering a passion for helping people realize their potential she moved into the field of training and development. For five years she worked at the University of York, taking a lead role in developing and delivering training programmes for staff and students. In 2008 she set up her own training and development business, and works with individuals, teams and institutions in the research, educational and not-for-profit sectors. Helen is also a local and national Vitae GRADschool tutor; an accredited Myers Briggs Type Indicator practitioner; and a trained Coactive Coach.