Climate Play Meetup

A drop-in gathering for anyone anywhere who is interested in whether there is a place for playfulness in helping people think, feel and act on climate change. H ow might playfulness influence motivation? And how might we add some climate playfulness into our work, home lives and activism?

Each time we meet we will chew over all things playful, joy-inducing and experimental in the context of climate change. We might try out playful methods and climate games, hear from community members about their experimental projects, consider playful communications and activism, or explore playfulness as something that is resisted but can also be an act of resistance. Or something else.

We will meet on the first Thursday of each month (apart from August) at 1300 GMT.

1 February - Lessons on playfully communicating behaviour change with Peter Johnson, Managing Director of Creature & Co

Peter leads Creature & Co, a creative agency with a twist and a conscience! He will share a bit about how they have brought a playful spirit to their work and share case studies of how they've done this. Creature & Co publishes National Geographic Kids magazine and has led various behaviour change projects with clients like Persil, The Real Play Coalition and Unilever in an effort to playfully engage people of all ages.

7 March - Gamification in Disaster Relief and Flood Management with Lydia Cuminsky, Senior Postdoctoral Researcher | Climate Adaptation & Disaster Resilience | UCC

Lydia will be sharing some of her experiences of using gamified learning in helping on climate adaptation and disaster relief planning, as well as using creative facilitation tools in helping to boost communication during her work. She works a lot in quite traditional settings, such as with government stakeholders, and she'll share learnings on the value of lighter approaches in this context.

4 April - Mermaids on a mission with Helen Hill of Be The Future

Helen and her co-founder work to make sustainability for adults and kids alike. They create eco play experienes for kids, and bring their parents and carers along for the ride. They have an exciting year ahead with lots of playful projects coming up. Operating in both Australia and UK she'll share interserting insights on how to get adults to take play seriously.

Check out Helen being brilliantly mermaidy on the BBC.

For anyone who has an interest in the idea of holding challenging things lightly (and still meaningfully). No need for any particular climate knowledge, nor do you need to be a high-energy joker. Playfulness comes in many forms :)

E xpect a curious, non-judgemental, come-as-you-are and experimental vibe where we will explore opportunities to approach climate change in different ways than we may do now.

This meetup is run by Lucy Hawthorne of Climate Play, a facilitator and campaigner at heart, who uses play-learning to help make it safe light and fun to face climate change, so that people engage more deeply, honestly and creatively on it.

Sign up to our mailing list here https://www.climateplay.org/#contact a nd follow Lucy here https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucyhawthorne/

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The meetup is free to attend. However, if you want to support the development of Climate Play you can donate here https://www.buymeacoffee.com/climateplay