{"id":2065,"date":"2018-02-08T10:04:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T10:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eho.zrs.mybluehost.me\/?p=2065"},"modified":"2021-09-28T10:41:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T10:41:57","slug":"the-work-of-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/the-work-of-play\/","title":{"rendered":"The work of play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlantic explores\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2016\/09\/how-to-use-fun-to-find-meaning-in-life\/499805\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Play Anything<\/a>,\u00a0a new book by Ian Bogost. The author\u00a0argues that we\u2019ve come to think of fun as enjoyment without effort, leading us down a series of unhelpful paths, where we\u2019re trying to achieve results without any effort. Play is too easily seen as a break in the work, rather than as a (quite demanding) way of seeing the work.<\/p>\n<p>This guides us as facilitators: we are constantly noticing and thinking about how participants are engaging and how we&#8217;re engaging with them. And searching for the subtle tweaks that might improve things. Often this work is invisible, as we choose not to act on many of the ideas we have &#8211; we\u2019re spending energy on impulse control. When we do act, we pay attention to the impact.<\/p>\n<p>In this sense, we&#8217;re\u00a0in a state of play with the group all the time: arguably\u00a0<strong>this<\/strong>\u00a0is the process, rather than the formal activity, the overt process (e.g. open space, world cafe whatever). We&#8217;re often happy to change the overt process so that we\u2019re not following a ritual in a trance, but are actually alive to the moment.<\/p>\n<p>(Photo by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/60krlMMeWxU?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NeONBRAND<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/search\/photos\/tools?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unsplash<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlantic explores\u00a0Play Anything,\u00a0a new book by Ian Bogost. The author\u00a0argues that we\u2019ve come to think of fun as enjoyment without effort, leading us down a series of unhelpful paths, where we\u2019re trying to achieve results without any effort. Play is too easily seen as a break in the work, rather than as a (quite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2068,"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions\/2068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}