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What Is Flow?
After working with groups all over the world for 30+ years now, I know that when they accept my invitation to enter into a space…
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Experiential Learning is Not Learning by Doing
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode explores the distinction between the methodology of experiential learning and the learning style of learning by doing. In my early…
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Question: How Do I End Long-Term Programs?
A subscriber asks: Do you have any tips or strategies on how to finish a group? I co-facilitate a 29-week personal development group with 14…
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How To Adapt Small Group Activities
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode shares a bunch of simple and unique strategies to help you adapt interactive group games & activities for your particular needs….
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Group Development Process of Adventure Therapy Groups
You are probably aware of the popular group development model published by Bruce Tuckman, the rhyming schema of Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing and Transforming/Mourning. This…
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The Four Emotional Needs
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode shares a brief introduction to Dr William Glasser‘s study on the four emotional needs of a human being. Dr Glasser is well-known…
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Deliberate Creative
Would you like your team to be more creative? Not quite sure how to do this? This week, Dr Amy Climer shares the discoveries of…
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How To Break-Up Cliques
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode reveals a series of simple, yet practical techniques and strategies you can use to break-up cliques in your group-based programs. Humans are…
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The Power of Relationships at School
Here’s a short video produced by the good folk at Edutopia that explores the powerful benefits of developing and nurturing strong & healthy relationships at…
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The Zone of Proximal Development
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode focuses on one of the most powerful educational theories of the 20th Century – the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD.) As…
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The Only Way to Learn from Experience…
Seth Godin wrote in a recent blog post that ‘… the only way to learn from experience is to have different experiences.’ This same notion could…
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How To Run an Effective Debrief
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode focuses on one of the most powerful tools of an experiential educator – the debrief, or as it often preferred to…
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What Do I Do With Diverse Group Needs?
A long-time playmeo subscriber asks: We have a large group of staff who comprise young, old, loud, shy and a few very disgruntled people. My…
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How To Calm Your Group
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode shares a number of useful tips and strategies you can use immediately to calm your group in preparation for their next…
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Can Play Save The World?
Followers of this blog and the work of playmeo will know that we have a fervent belief that play is an essential element in the…
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Stop an Activity Before it Wanes
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode explores what is involved in the judgement call to choose to stop an activity before it wanes. That is, if you…
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The Physical Movement
playmeo collaborates with many partners all over the world. From time to time, in the spirit of adding value, I invite some of them to…
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Are Elimination Games OK?
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode explores whether elimination games – in a group context – are okay to play. You know, I’m talking about those often fun, but…
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How To Brief An Activity
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode shares a series of simple steps to help you effectively brief or introduce an experience to fully prepare your group. It…
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Play Is A State of Mind: Podcast Interview
For most of us, we think of ‘play’ in terms of playing a game, an activity. It’s not – it’s a state of mind. And…
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Top Three Tips to Remember Names
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode reveals three of the most useful techniques and strategies to help you remember names. If you’re someone who works with groups all…
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Reflecting as an Individual
A question came in this week from a playmeo subscriber: “What activities or exercises can I deliver that will give each person the experience of…
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Remove Distractions
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode shares a series of simple, yet very powerful tips that will help you keep your group’s attention and/or focused for longer periods…
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