The Possibilities of Play will be explore a number of key Playwork concepts, or ‘possibilities’, that when incorporated into the physical places we provide for our children and young people to play greatly enhance the play experiences. This session will be great for people working in the early years with both school and non school sectors including, parents/carers, preschool and childcare educators, after school hours carers, tertiary educators in ECE, playworkers and others. This session is supported by the Break O'Day Local Enabling Group intiative - Universal Access for 3 year olds.

The concepts discussed will also provide a theoretical framework that helps explain why some of the things we provide for our children work and others clearly do not. Each of these simple possibilities works well on its own but when combined, and in a particular sequence, the results are incredibly powerful. Simple to understand, easy to put into practice, and surprisingly powerful.

Marc Armitage is an consultant, researcher and writer in children’s play, playing and Playwork. He began his professional career as a playworker in the early 1980s with a local organisation in the UK, Hull Community Playschemes Association, and since then has worked as a field playworker, an adventure playground worker, a double decker playbus worker, a local authority play development officer, a university lecturer, research associate and a company director.

Marc is a founding Director of the Australian based Playwork training and advocacy bodyMalarkey Playwork and still travels the world promoting the importance of play, playing and Playwork in the lives of all children and young people. He is a regular speaker to conference and seminar events around the world and has been published in magazine articles, periodicals, journals, books and academic papers in English and Swedish - some of which can be found on his website. He is also is a member of the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past, the History of Education Society and the Folklore Society.

Attendance Certificates: There are no attendance certificates available for Tour gigs but if you print your tickets and present them to Marc at the gig he will sign them as an indication that you attended.

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Marc Armitage Playwork Consultant - Marc Armitage (marc-armitage.com)