2025 Strategic Play Conference:

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(Nita Lake Lodge, Whistler, Canada 2025 conference location)

Play Without Borders

April 23 - 24, 2025 

The Location: Nita Lake Lodge, Whistler, BC, CANADA

You will see, hear, and experience how large corporations like NASA, USAF, P&G, IKEA, Google, Ernst & Young, and Global Banks are putting the POWER OF PLAY to work around the world.

Speakers will be announced soon! 

Get ready for a jam packed conference dedicated to the power of play. The learning starts here:

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Sarah D. Moyle will be graphic recording and documenting speaker presentations live at the event. 


DATES: April 23 - April 24, 2025

LOCATION: Whistler, BC, CANADA

Stay and Play  - Post Conference: Certification Training April 25 & April 26, 2025
1. Where do we play?

2. Why do we play?

3. How do we play? 

4. What is play?

 

Beyond Fun: We are delving into the meaning, value, and soul-enriching Power of Play

  • Are you looking for ways to engage the disengaged?
  • Do you want to make better connections in classrooms, meetings, or in workshops?
  • Do you want to bring more fun to work?
  • Do you want to get more people to play? 
  • Would you like to learn from experts from around the world?
  • Are you searching for tools and techniques that deliver results?
  • Would you benefit from networking and working in small groups with other play professionals?

     

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    Included in this conference:

    Workshop Playsonality™ and PlayDNA™

    You will test your PlayDNA to learn your unique Playsonality style. Why is Adult Play so important? How we play is directly linked to how we learn, think, work, feel, perform, and interact with others. What you learn in play you remember for life!

    You will walk away with new insights about the power of play and how we all use play every day. Also, you will understand a new way to add more play to your corporate culture to improve well-being.

    Happiness and engagement are requirements for individuals, teams, and organizations, not to mention they are necessary for a sustainable future built on positive relationships.

    · Unpack the value of play at work and discover the ROI of play.

    · Identify play styles and the key to happiness via flow theory.

    · Use our Playsonality app to decode your play style.

    · Build your Play Style in 3D with LEGO® bricks.

    You will conduct a deep dive into how your play style fits together and create a unique and one of a kind playsonality.

    P.S. This is how you can unlock your secret weapon.

    Your Authentic and Genuine Playsonality™ and PlayDNA™

    Note: We also have a special option to purchase all the materials to use this tool in your setting and gain your certification. Interested? Just ask: hello@strategicplay.com

    Register Now for Conference Early Bird Prices

     

    Stay and Play  - Post Conference: Certification Training April 25 & April 26, 2025
    Strategic Storytelling -April 25, 2025

    Creative Conflict Management -April 26, 2025

    Past Speakers & Topics from 2018 - 2024


    2024:  The Dalí Art Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
    2019:  Nita Lake Lodge, Whistler, BC, Canada
    2018:  Nita Lake Lodge, Whistler, BC, Canada
    2017:  Procter & Gamble, West Chester, Ohio, USA
    2016:  Nita Lake Lodge, Whistler, BC, Canada
    2015:  LEGOLAND California, Carlsbad, California, USA

    (speaker presentations captured in graphics by the amazing Sarah D. Moyle)

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    Paul Propster
    NASA Jet Propulsion Lab

     

    "3,2,1: Getting to the Launch Pad"

    2024 Florida
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    Dr. Kim Macuare
    The Dalí Museum
    "VTS Sight to Insight"
    2024 Florida
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    Dr. Steve Ralph
    Pepperdine University

    "Pause for Play"

    2024 Florida
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    Dr. Trisha
    Disney University

    "Playing with the Play Resistant"
    Florida 2024

     

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    Sara Ramadoro
    Google

    "Overcoming Impostor Syndrome"

    Florida 2024
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    Robin Sather
    LEGO® Certified Professional 

    "Playing Big"

    Florida 2024

     

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    Dr. Andrea Grimm 
    Dr. Astin Malschinger

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    "Help from Vienna"

    2024 Florida
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    Dr. Paco Suay
    CEU University
    "Playing with Students"
    2024 Florida

     

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    Dr. Steve Ralph
    Pepperdine University
    "Play and the Pause Effect"
    Whistler 2018
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    Jacqueline Lloyd Smith
    Founder, Strategic Play

     

    "Your Brain on Play"

     

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    Dr. Kasra Khorasani, M.D,
    York University 

     

    "LEGO® Group Therapy for
    Inpatient settings"

     

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    Col. Jason (TOGA)  Trew, PhD
    USAF

    "Rescuing Icarus"
    The intersection 
    between play and strategy

     

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    Dr. Belinda Heyne
    University of Calgary

     

    "Quantum Chemistry: One Brick at a Time"
    Play and learning transfer

     

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    Dr. Margaret Rudolf
    "Trusting in Play & Change"

     

    How play can build trust during
    times of  change

     

    Whistler 2018
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    Richard Perez
    P&G Innovation Lab

     

    "Play methods and quick stories at P&G Innovation Gym"
    Using playful methods for innovation

     

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    Dr. Walter Stevenson
    Golden Gate University
    "The question is the thing."
    Structuring and asking the right playful questions

     

     Whistler, 2018
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    Dr. Camilla Jensen
    Arizona State University

     

    "Beyond the Bricks"
    Play to transfer tacit knowledge

     

    Whistler 2018
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    Golden Brick Awards!

    The Golden Brick Awards are given to individuals leading the way by demonstrating their commitment to the adult play movement.  Our awards are built by hand by a Canadian Certified LEGO® Professional Builder (and Master Builder), Robin Sather.

    From left to right: Richard Perez, P&G, Jacqueline Lloyd Smith, Strategic Play founder, and Robin Sather, LEGO Professional Builder.goldenbrickawardslegostrategicplay

    2019 Fun in Whistler 

     

     

    Bringing your team? Email us for special group rates at hello@strategicplay.com

    Join the play movement! 

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