Serious Results Through Play: What You'll Learn in the Play Facilitator Certification Program

I regularly meet practitioners, from independent facilitators and coaches to in-house HR and L&D leaders, who…

• are looking for ways to make their work resonate more with their teams

• know that learning and development is not just about giving people knowledge, but truly about driving behavior change

• seek to drive meaningful culture change that lasts well beyond the end of the engagement.

These pros are looking for engaging content, because they know that experiential learning is much more likely to be sticky and have a real impact because it’s activating our emotions and behaviors, rather than just sharing knowledge.

But many - even the most experienced practitioners - are initially intimidated by the thought of using games. Because we’ve all seen play at work go horribly wrong.

This is exactly why we created the Play Facilitator Certification program, which teaches everything you need to know about successfully incorporating play into learning, development, and change programs.

This 3-day program breaks down every step of the process, from design to facilitation to debrief in order to make sure that it’s a transformative experience for everyone.

Here are some of the topics the program covers:

1. Assessing a team’s strengths, pain points, key dynamics, and needs.

2. Selecting the right game(s) for the desired outcomes, which is done through the 4-step process shown in the photos below.

3. Designing experiences that combined games with more traditional content.

4. Crafting the most effective reflection and debrief questions.

5. Following up for max impact.

We cover the dimensions of team culture, why investing in culture pays off (when done right), game mechanics and dynamics, delivering play instructions effectively, managing the skeptics in the room, and more.

And we practice what we preach: the whole program is delivered experientially, as we play and reflect on all kinds of games.

Wouldn’t you like to spend 3 days playing games and building up a whole new skillset that will transform the teams and companies you work with? That will build you confidence and expertise in play-based experiential learning?

You can learn more about the Play Facilitator Certification program at here.