I spend a few minutes each day contributing to various educational blogs and social media platforms. In one post on TeachThought, a program provider from…
This Have You Ever variation is shared by my good friend Jim Schoel, long time Project Adventure colleague and author of Islands of Healing, Exploring Islands…
I love working in front of big groups. I mean, really BIG groups, such as 100, 200 and up to 500 people, often times seated…
A colleague, Jeffrey ‘Goose’ Gosnell, reported last week that he has chosen to stop using the term ‘team-building’ when speaking with prospective clients at his…
Here’s a MUST READ ESSAY from Dr Peter Gray, professor of psychology at Boston College, which implores educational systems around the world to introduce more…
Stumbled across this post from Terry Heick, a US-based educator focused on social improvement through learning innovation, and Director of Curriculum, TeachThought. He argues, these…
More and more I have come to the conclusion that one of the most powerful attributes of success for an individual or a group is…
You can never have enough fun games, and I mean FUN games, up your sleeve to encourage young people (indeed, all people) to be and…
I don’t get many opportunities to be a participant, but I took advantage of US-based facilitator Jim Cain‘s workshop tour of Australia this month to learn…
Edutopia is a wonderful resource for educators, no matter what field you practice. I stumbled across an article – originally posted on Maurice Elias’ blog…
As a team-building group facilitator, this is a question I am often asked: do team-building programs work? I could point to dozens of examples which…
Here are two poor team-building ideas that get under my skin when a client is making decisions in regards to their forthcoming team retreat or…
A question about how to play in war-torn Syria comes from Rita, living in the middle of a war zone: “…I live in Damascus Syria….
This question comes from Phil in NY, USA: “…I am soon to work with a group who have a wheelchair-bound guy in it and I’m…
‘More Than Just Fun’ PD Workshop Come join me, Mark Collard, in a one-day, outrageously fun PD workshop for teachers, outdoor educators & recreation…
A subscriber to the playmeo YouTube channel has suggested that is much easier to repeat what is said and do the opposite than is it…
A playmeo subscriber from Israel (Eitan) shared a wonderful variation of Head-Butt Tag with me today. I figured every PE teacher, outdoor educator and youth…
Or, put another way, what makes an ice-breaker an ice-breaker (as distinct from any other group activity?) Sometimes, this is simply asking the question some…
I’ve been a big believer in the principle of ‘I become what I think.’ This is just another way of saying BE – DO –…
Since our childhood, we all know how to dream. Asleep and awake. Thanks to the power of our imagination we believe we are capable of…
I’ve just uploaded three new activities onto the playmeo database which involve the use of balloons – one of the cheapest and most versatile props you’d have…
I love big groups, but their movement needs to be managed well, lest people get confused, or worse, start to drift away. I had the…
Here’s a sample program of free activities – featured on playmeo’s online games library – you may like to try. There are 60+ minutes of…
The school year started in most parts of Australia this week, and typically this means a bunch of new (and familiar) students are thrown together…
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