Play for Grassroots Activists
Join us for engaging workshops led by experienced facilitators, designed to inspire fresh ideas and foster meaningful connections with grassroots activists from around the globe. Discover the transformative power of play through activities like improvisation, storytelling, movement, and role-playing—tools that will help grassroots leaders and their team members enhance their collaboration, communication, and conceptualization skills. Take advantage of this free opportunity to energize your team and create a lasting impact!
Friday, November 15
4 pm PDT Los Angeles
6 pm CST Mexico
7 pm EDT New York
9 pm Brazil & Argentina
8 am CST China (Nov 16)
9 am JST Japan (Nov 16)
11 am AEDT Australia (Nov 16)
1 pm NZDT New Zealand (Nov 16)
Saturday, November 16
9 am CST Mexico
10 am EDT New York
12 pm Brazil & Argentina
3 pm GMT UK
4 pm CET Europe & WAT Nigeria
8:30 pm IST India
11 pm CST China
Host
Rita is the Executive Director of the Global Play Brigade and Founder of Street Project Foundation, a grassroots organization focused on youth development in Nigeria. She is an author and thought leader passionate about using play and performance for human development. She will host the Global Playshop on Saturday, November 16, 2024.
Host
Mamiko Miyamoto - Japan
Mamiko is a Linguist with a BA from England and TESOL (MA) from United States. Mamiko’s journey spans English teaching, HR management, and project management in business localization. She is one of the organizers of Applied Improvisation Facilitator Academia (AIFA) in Japan and is passionate about fostering playful learning mindsets in education. She will host the Global Playshop on Friday, November 15, 2024.
Facilitators and Playshops for Friday
Our worlds of work are filled with talk, meetings, emails, texts, etc. Lots of chatter back and forth. Sometimes it's fine, good, helpful --- and sometimes (often) -- it's not. Our organizations have important social missions. To support their success, we need more listening, more understanding, and much more creativity, collaboration and nourishment in the work environment. By utilizing creative practices and concepts that come from the fields of theater, improvisation and social therapeutics; you will learn new and powerful ways to create better work relationships and conversations, and therefore more collaborative, healthy and productive work environments. This session is open to both organization leaders and team members.
Teamwork Makes the Dreamwork
This session will involve a little bit of theory about the notion of teamwork, and then lots of activities that will encourage us to feel the difference between getting things done and getting things done together. We will investigate our strengths so we can lean on them, we will exercise our listening and response skills, we will work as a team to solve problems in the most outlandish ways! It will be fun and informative.
Jugar con la Incertidumbre en las Organizaciones
Mantener una organización de la sociedad civil (OSC) a flote es un trabajo difícil! Con frecuencia nos toca lidiar con mucha presión e incertidumbre. A menudo también nos toca hacer equilibrio entre mantenernos fieles a nuestra misión y el difícil trabajo cotidiano de mantener nuestra organización funcionando, lo cual incluye tareas como la administración de recursos, la realización de las actividades planificadas, la sostenibilidad financiera, etc. En este taller abordaremos las habilidades necesarias para manejar la incertidumbre. De hecho, puede ser que el jugar con la incertidumbre nos ayude a encontrar el equilibrio entre el trabajo cotidiano y la visión a largo plazo. Como resultado de este taller aprenderás a trabajar con tu equipo en el manejo de ese equilibrio y la creación de nuevas posibilidades para alcanzar tu misión.
Communicating with Confidence
In Communicating with Confidence, we'll be harnessing the power of applied improvisation to help you become a more confident and effective storyteller and public speaker. Whether you're pitching ideas, speaking at meetings, or presenting to a crowd, this workshop will give you the tools to speak with confidence, engage your audience, and handle unexpected moments with ease. Expect to play, stretch out of your comfort zone, and walk away with fresh confidence to own the room!
Cultivating Team Resilience
In this unique workshop, people share true stories of times that were hard then yet funny now, affirming each other's resilience and fostering hope. Each person who shares gets reinvigorated with their own inner strength and inspires others to look with fresh appreciation at their own lives. We explore the difference between laughing at and with each other, as a guiding principle for enhancing workplace connections. Sharing these stories releases stress and brings new energy for the journey ahead. It also has people feel closer to each other, amplifying teamwork and creating a more vibrant, adaptable work environment ready to navigate future challenges.
Play with/for Freedom
What does play have to do with the pursuit of freedom?
Does it matter if activists play with one another, their audience, their tasks?
Join organizers of the Freedom Festival and explore how inviting playful creativity can inspire, excite and activate yourself, volunteers and participants.
Facilitators and Playshops for Saturday
Pelemo Nyajo - Nigeria
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Do you find that even the most well-intentioned discussions can miss the mark or be unhelpful? Have you experienced work-based or personal communications that are challenging and confusing? This session explores ways to enjoy better connection using techniques founded in improvisation comedy. Whether you are in corporate or the arts; a team leader or a solopreneur; this playshop offers real-time solutions to everyday miscommunications.
Los Juegos de Poder en Ambientes de Trabajo
(For Spanish Speakers)
En este taller haremos uso de algunos juegos teatrales para explorar nuestras experiencias personales en cuanto a las dinámicas de poder en ambientes de trabajo, tanto aquellas experiencias en las cuales hayamos sido víctimas de abusos de poder, violencia, dominación o discriminación, como aquellas experiencias en las cuales hayamos tratado de forma abusiva, dominante, discriminatoria o violenta a otra persona. ¿Qué podemos aprender de esas experiencias, que nos ayude a construir mejores ambientes de trabajo?
Creative Grassroots Campaigning
In this playshop, we will explore how the arts, creativity and playfulness can be brought into how we practice social change. We will play with how to bring more people to become allies by exploring specific campaigns for social change as co-creating a story that can win hearts and minds.
Transformative Storytelling for Change
This session explores the transformative power of creativity to tackle injustice and oppression through stories of change and inclusive dialogue.
WHAT IS A GLOBAL PLAYSHOP?
Play with strangers across the world
The Global Play Brigade hosts three (s) global events per year as part of our mission to make PLAY mainstream and available to all. So far in 2024, we have hosted Heart and Power; where we focussed on mental health and well being, and Playtelligence; where we explored how play and creativity is necessary for learning, development and education. Every attendee has the option of joining workshops of their choice. Our last Global Playshop was attended by over 200 people from 29 countries, including China, Nigeria, Argentina, Ukraine, Serbia, Israel, Kuwait, Gibraltar, Peru, Japan, and the UK. Will you join to build the movement?
How will it work?
25-minutes - Welcome & playful warm-up exercise
50-minutes - Choose one workshop to attend (see above)
15-minutes - Reflections
30-minutes - Optional Special Event: A Graduation Celebration for the Global Play Brigade’s Ambassador Program. More info coming soon!
NOVEMBER 2024
THEME: CHANGEMAKERS' PLAY FEST
FAQ
I’m super excited to join the workshop! But…What exactly will happen during this workshop?
Thank you for your curiosity! Here’s what’s gonna happen;
1. You will change your Name on Zoom with your first name and country
2. We will tell you about the event
3. We will explain what Global Play Brigade really is
4. We will introduce a lineup of the workshops ready for you
5. You will choose which workshop to join
6. You will join the breakout room for the workshop you’ve chosen
7. You will participate in the workshop for 50 minutes
8. You will come back to the mainroom after the workshop is over
9. We will have a reflection session as a whole
10. We will inform you about next GPB workshop and more events
How to Use Zoom
1. Oh wow…so much to happen!!!!! By the way, How can I change my name on Zoom?
You can hover above your picture until you see the three dots. Click the three dots and you should see the option to rename yourself. If you’re still having trouble, just drop your name and country in the chat.
2. Okay, I think I can do that, thanks. Hmm…How can I join a Breakout Room?
Don’t worry, it’s quite simple. First, please check the descriptions of each workshop above. Once you decide which workshop you’d like to take, you can rename yourself with the number of the breakout room you’d like to join.
Or, if you’re fairly comfortable with Zoom, you can just join the breakout like you usually do.
Here is a video that tells you how to join a breakout room
on zoom. Check it out!
Wonderful! Now I think I am ready. Oh, one more thing! Do you have any language support during the workshop?
Currently we do not have any translation system that supports non-English speaking friends unfortunately…But our facilitators are all globally talented and they can support you in languages like Japanese, Chinese, and Spanish! We hope to purchase an AI translation tool in the future but we need your help to do that. Let us explain more in the workshop!
Help! Where is my join link?
These workshops are virtual and you will need a Zoom link to join.
You will receive the join link in your email after registering on Eventbrite or Zoom.
