Jan 14, 2021 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
We began developing and running the Playworker Development Course (PDC) way back in 2013. It was designed to meet a very specific need: individual play advocates all around the world wanted to learn more about playwork theory and how to put it into action. Since then,...
Jan 1, 2021 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
By Zan It’s 2021 and we rejoice in the start of a brand new year! The unpredictability of 2020 has taught us make some positive and achievable plans for 2021. And having thought long and hard, we’d like to share them with you: As per our announcement, we...
Dec 28, 2020 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
Right now, my world is under nearly three feet of snow. It is even quieter in Vermont than usual, and I can hear the busy woodpeckers hammering away above, and a stream gurgling determinedly at the bottom of the garden. Getting anywhere new, off the carefully dug path...
Dec 7, 2020 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
What does play in adulthood look like? At Pop-Up Adventure Play, we believe that play is not just for children – it’s a powerful, healing force for adults, too. Our Adult Play Course is a space for reflection, reconnection and rediscovery, especially for those...
Sep 11, 2020 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
We were enormously excited about the Prioritising Play Conference! Kelsey of KOOP Adventure Play gathered a remarkably knowledgeable, talented and genuinely diverse line-up of play and playwork people. The conference ran for 7 weeks online conference with different...
Sep 9, 2020 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
Our Playworker Development Course brings people together from all over the world to talk about playwork. Divya is from India. She joined the course in March 2019, with the intention of channelling her passion for play. She successfully completed the course in March...
Aug 26, 2020 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
Maritza has been a friend to Pop-Ups for several years. She is a gifted playworker at AP at the Parish School, a warm host to Campference visitors, and creator of truly magnificent pupusas. As a student on our Playworker Development Course, Maritza has now shared a...
Jul 28, 2020 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
Our Playworker Development Course brings people together from all over the world to talk about playwork. Divya is from India. She joined the course in March 2019, with the intention of channelling her passion for play. She successfully completed the course in March...
Jul 2, 2020 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
This note on pandemic playground guidance goes out to Anthony from Vivo, who once asked, “but how do I clean this tub full of pool noodle chunks?” He asked it worried, laughing, earnest. It felt like a quintessential playworker question – knowing the value of what...
Jun 2, 2020 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
Every adventure playground is unique. There are definitely trends across them – longtime fans will recognize patterns of handmade wooden constructions, enthusiastically painted. More mud than grass. Weird trash, emerging from the landscape. Often a fringe of...
May 21, 2020 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
There are some questions we’ve asked a thousand times. “What is play?” Moreover: “What did you love, when you were a child?” “What do you do for fun, these days?” It’s part of our warm-up routine, when standing in front of teachers, childcare professionals, parents...
May 19, 2020 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
Times were tough, but sometimes it’s good to reminisce about past fun times and future plans. Claude Stephens, and the good people of Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, helped us do just that by hosting Playwork Campference 2021. The event was held on their...
