Trudi Boatwright
About Trudi Boatwright
Trudi Boatwright specialises in experiential learning, immersive experiences and play. She is an affiliate at the Institute for Experiential Learning in the US and one of the few certified Experiential Learning coaches practicing in Australia.
From storytelling with finance teams to treasure hunts with transport workers, she works online and in person, immersing herself in hundreds of businesses to provide them with culturally aligned creative solutions.
She is particularly passionate about teaching organisations HOW to use play effectively by combining arts, the experiential learning cycle, the science of play, and design thinking.
Combining a Masters of Design Futures (RMIT) with a rich 20 year history in the arts, she is a theatre maker, actor, producer, and director and excels in working beyond the fourth wall through role-play and immersive theatre through her theatre company TBC Theatre. She uses these production skills to create unique learning experiences including disruptive events, speculative design innovation and applied improvisation.
She passionately believes that imagination and play are vital for the evolution of our future. Some of her career highlights include conducting an orchestra, holding a luncheon at the House of Lords, and riding a yak.
Agile Games – How to turn PLAY into your biggest toolkit super-power
We’ve all heard the buzz about how play supports agile learning and innovative thinking. But how do you play more effectively? How do you make it more than some knaff ice-breaker and what will prevent people from shrinking when you say ‘let’s play a game’.
We play to build connection. We play to understand empathy. And knowing HOW to use play as a process can be a powerful problem solver. Through real-life examples, we explore this process together to arm participants with the tools to create play that saves time and resources, improves communication and most importantly, builds empathy.
In this talk, Trudi explores with you:
- The science behind play, why we do it, and how you can use it within your team
- Developing truly experiential learning that includes all participants, introverts and extroverts
- Understanding the power of ‘solving a problem with a problem’
- Learning how to integrate play that suits YOUR goals and outcomes
- Discovering how to stop ignoring your greatest communicator – your body
Naturally, this talk is interactive (but not scary), fun but still serious, and like the move to agile working, it shakes up our daily processes and will leave you thinking in new and energising ways.
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