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Reflections from the PDC: “Do you want to play hide and seek?”
We can't quite believe it, but the Playworker Development Course has been going for over a year! Our course aims to provide tools to play advocates and gives a chance to use the playwork approach. Since the start of the course, we have worked with over 60 students...
GUEST WRITER: Pop-Up Adventure Fun Seattle
By Sara Mirabito Sara left an urgent message on our guest book a couple of weeks ago when she found out that she was helping to run a Pop-Up Adventure Playground for Hopscotch CD festival. She had never heard of Pop-Ups before and needed a little help. After we talked...
GUEST WRITER: Pop-Up Stories from New Haven
By Wendy Garcia We're delighted to have Wendy guest write this blogpost, giving us the highlights of a Pop-Up Adventure Playground she hosted on 19th July in New Haven, Connecticut. Wendy approached us to help her run a Pop-Up and we provided her with guidance and...
A Pop-Up in My Community
It has been some time since I hosted a Pop-Up in my community so when my church friends approached me to help out with a cafe style event, I jumped at the idea of having a Pop-Up Adventure Playground. It's new and unfamiliar territory to these folks, but I assured...
Join the Global Playwork Community
If you're a regular reader here, you've been hearing quite a bit about our 2014 US tour (On the Road and Highlights from Tour). It was an amazing way for us to meet many of the people we've been corresponding with for years. People such as independent organisers of...
Highlights from Tour 2014
Quite some time had passed since we finished our 'Pop-Up Adventure Play and Special Guests 2014 Tour.' I have been very careful not to constantly talk about the adventure. I really can't help it though. The scale of our adventure and the things we did and saw were...
Running Up the Down Escalator: Improving Opportunities for Play in Our City Centres
We used to hear a child screaming and grin at each other, knowing they were headed our way. When they arrived the child would be clawing at the straps in their pushchair, desperate to run around. The mother would drop her bag and head for the sofa, equally desperate...
Pop-Ups Tour 2014: Thank You (Part 3)
By Morgan Thank you to YOU We've been so grateful for the opportunity to do this tour, and to be a part of this movement in support of play. It was hard work, but also in many ways an absolute luxury to dedicate two whole months to meeting other people who are...
Pop-Ups Tour 2014: Thank You (Part 2)
By Morgan Playworkers make a point of going where invited. With children, this usually means waiting to be asked to join in play, rather than blundering over with our own ideas. This tour is one extension of that idea. We'd had emails of interest from people all over...
Pop-Ups Tour 2014: Thank You (Part 1)
We were taught to write thank-you notes after people had been kind to us, and one thing this tour has proven is that extraordinary kindness isn't really extraordinary after all. In fact, we met it in every stop, in every state and before we'd even hit the road. This...