Quest in the Park

The Quest in the Park is the latest incarnation of the Quest to 2050, which was developed by Steph Bradley and Sky Chapman for the Transition Tales project in 2008. Since then it has been played all over the world, in groups of all sizes, from ages 6- 86.

This interactive game invites groups of players to collaborate in a story making process which involves finding creative solutions to current challenges.

Participants choose individual skills and group and shared resources to help them to navigate future scenarios. How they interact with the other groups is up to them, and the challenges they face, as a small community or collectively as a wider community. Challenges range from socio-economic problems to individual or group dynamic issues.

See the story of Transition Tales here: https://www.transitionculture.org/2010/03/08/the-story-of-transition-tales/

Wet weather plan: Seven Stars Ballroom

Facilitators:

Mara Green

A mother of three girls and grandmother of 3 boys, Mara has lived in both Dartington and Totnes for over 30 years.

She originally trained and taught as a Montessori teacher, has run a playgroup, and taught and supported young special needs adults at South Devon College for many years.

In 2009, she joined the Transition Tales team and helped to deliver the programme which worked with local primary and secondary Schools where she facilitated games envisaging a positive future where children were encouraged to discover imaginative and innovative solutions to current challenges.

Steph Bradley

Currently a higher education trainer and lecturer, as well as a storyteller and writer, Steph became involved with TTT when she designed and delivered the bike-powered Totnes International Youth Awareness Festival in 2007.

She went on to facilitate the Transition Education group and was an early volunteer for the Transition Tales programme at KEVICC, subsequently taking over the facilitation of the project, taking it to more local schools, as well as to educators across the country, at training courses and conferences between 2009-2012.

In 2010, she took a sabbatical from her role of training coordinator for the Transition Network to walk 2000 miles around England collecting real life Transition Tales and writing them up in her book ‘Tales of Our Times’.