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New Health & Wellness Activities To Try
With each passing week, playmeo has been busy uploading many new activities, particularly those with a health & wellness and SEL (social-emotional learning) focus. If…
New Health & Wellness Activities To Try
With each passing week, playmeo has been busy uploading many new activities, particularly those with a health & wellness and SEL (social-emotional learning) focus. If…
How To Bring Experiential Learning Online
Bringing Experiential Learning Online is Easier than you Think We’ve lived with the global pandemic and remote work for more than a year now….
4 Quick Tips to Improve Online Delivery
Do you present or lead sessions online? Do you have 2 minutes to digest four quick tips to help you ramp up the engagement of…
Latest Activity Uploads
playmeo was busy sharing a bunch of new group games & activities last month. In case you missed them, I want to tell you about…
Creating Psychological Safety: Free Webinar
In 2012, Google did extensive research to identify and evaluate the key factors that make great teams successful. Based on the findings of Project Aristotle,…
What’s the Difference Between a Trainer & Facilitator?
Do you describe yourself as a facilitator, trainer, coach, educator, something else? We’ve seen many experiential educators have a difficult time defining themselves, their role,…
The Power of LEGO Bricks
In today’s Learning Pod session, a small group of playmeo members turned up to connect, share and lean into a bunch of exciting programming questions….
How Do I Sequence My Activities?
A playmeo member recently asked: I’m creating a team building program for summer camp. I understand how to run each activity but I don’t know…
12 Virtual Group Games with No Video
For many of us, adapting our existing programs during the pandemic to suit a virtual audience has been a challenge. Worse, when the group we…
Top Activity Uploads for May 2021
There have been a bunch of new activities uploaded to playmeo’s online activity database this past month. Here are two that I think you and…
Understand How You Learn & Teach These Insights To Others
When you consider that learning is the major process by which you navigate life, learning how to do this well becomes an essential condition to…
What Are The Best Icebreaker Questions?
Imagine a speed dating event. Two concentric circles of seats, set up with half the group seated on the inner circle while the folks in…
5 Essential Tools To Help Groups Thrive
“A tradesman is only as good as their tools.” – author unknown A carpenter looks at a piece of lumber and can see a finely…
The Essence of Play, A Masterful Art: Podcast
Here’s an invitation to lean into a recent conversation I had with Douglas Ferguson, host of the Control the Room podcast, in which we discussed…
24 of the Best Small Group Games & Activities
A playmeo member recently asked: I’m designing a leadership program of games & team-building exercises for small groups of only 4-5 students. I find it…
Our #1 Summer Camp Water Game
I led a camp in North Carolina for 8 summers that catered for close to 800 boys and girls. These were some of the best…
How To Beat Zoom Fatigue
With so many of our experiential programs venturing into the online or virtual world over the past year, it is clear that zoom fatigue is…
Looking for Father & Child Program Ideas?
A playmeo member recently asked: I’m running a multi-day program for fathers & their adolescent child. Do you have any go-to activities that work for…
How To Give Positive Feedback
There is a lot of literature out there that describes how to give positive feedback to others. But, I just learned something about this process…
Leading Interactive Group Games & Activities into 2021
After a year like no other, if you could hold a crystal ball and look into the future, what do you think you might see…
Mimeograph – Fun Pattern-Finding Group Initiative
My friends at High 5 Adventure Learning Centre introduced me to this awesome group initiative 5 years ago and it’s become a staple of my…
New Health & Wellness Programming Attributes
As much as this update has been on the cards for a while, I am also pleased to say that we have received overwhelming support…
Trust Fall or Fall from Height?
One of the most vivid memories that many participants of a challenge ropes course report are their experiences with the Trust Fall activity. The Trust…
Become a Better Storyteller
Do you want to become a better storyteller? Stories are the way we change minds and win hearts, and telling stories with more skill and…
Get 10 of our Best Ice-Breakers
Try ten of our most successful ice-breakers & group games in our all-new 28-page ebook. Ideal for all groups, 100% fun & free.