Programs and Applications

FOR ORGANIZATIONS
FOR EDUCATORS

Organizations

Programs are designed to meet each organizations unique needs. One to three hour modules, daylong workshops or keynote presentations are available. Ideal also for retreats and conferences.

Any presentation we design contains one or more of these main threads: Play and Humor, Creativity and Innovation, Teambuilding and Morale and Appreciation.

Keynotes or presentations:

Stress Management Through Play and Humor (Workshop)
A must for those people who are overworked, and underplayed. This is our most often requested program!!!

Mastery Is Where Play and Work Become One (Keynote)
Maximizing your full potential

The Power of Being in The Moment (Workshop or Keynote) How the simple skills of Improvisational theater help us effectively embrace change

Attitude of Gratitude (Workshop)
Using Humor and Appreciation to create an Inspiring and Productive Workplace

Yes Play works!!!!! (Workshop)
Building leadership and Team Skills though Improvisation and play

Playing with Ideas (Workshop)
The Importance of Play in the Creative Process

Play is Fun-damentally Important (Workshop)
Building Team Morale through play

"Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father." - Roger von Oech

"What then is the right way of living? Life must be lived as if it were play." – Plato

"Laughter removes the burden of seriousness from a problem and often it is that serious which is the problem in the first place." – Bob Basso

"To be playful and serious at the same time is possible and in fact it defines the ideal mental condition." – John Dewey

"Play is the exultation of the possible." - Martin Buber

Educators

Play is the way children learn. Howard Moody creates fun, engaging and unique trainings for Educators. Howard began as a teacher and has created many play programs presently used at the camps and schools. Woven throughout these trainings are the elements of humor, teambuilding, appreciation and creativity; all vital tools for any educator.

Presentations

Stress Break for Teachers - Managing Stress Through Play and Humor
A truly fun, informative, and meaningful in service training.

All About Play
Why play is so important for children at all ages of development and adults too. Actual tools and activities that work with kids.

The Gifts of Gratitude and Appreciation – Building Morale
Give this gift of fun to your teachers all while learning the benefits that appreciation and play have to offer.

The Origins of Play
Training on the skills of Original Play
“Play is when we don’t know we are different from each other” David – age 5

Imagination, Creativity, Myth, and Storytelling
Why storytelling is considered the finest form of education and how it stimulates creativity and Imagination.
"Imagination is more important than Knowledge” -Einstein

The Importance of Recess
How to make play and recess fun for everyone

Full program descriptions available on request.

"Play is the only activity in which the whole educational process is full consummated." – N.V. Scarfe

"In the early formative years, play is almost synonymous with life. It is second only to being nourished, protected and loved. It is a basic ingredient of physical, social and emotional growth." – Ashley Montague.

"Play is vital to all humanity. It is the finest education system known to man." - Neville Scarge

Howard Moody is the co-creator of the Adventure Game Theatre which has been featured on PBS, NPR and in Mothering magazine. Howard has been an athletic coach for twenty years as well as being a teacher and he has presented hundred of workshops on the values of cooperative play and New Games. The Adventure Game has recently been adapted very successfully to work with children on the Autistic spectrum. Click HERE for Howard's complete biography.

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