The A-Players Path — our flagship programme for teams
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Retreats, open events, collaborations and a series of conversations with people who never stopped playing — or found their way back to it.
No company, no budget and no invitation required. This is the part of The Playground that is not for sale: it exists because the conversation is worth having and the room is worth being in.
Start here
Two or three days out of the city with a small group, run with the same method we use with teams who pay us — but with enough time that what happens on the first morning still has consequences on the last night.
The list is how the first one actually gets planned — who puts their name down is what decides when, where, and how big it is.
What this is
The same capabilities we work on with teams who pay us — standing losing, improvising, connecting fast, saying the hard thing — can be trained on your own. You just need somewhere to do it.
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If everything you do in your free time is something you already master, you are training nothing. The discomfort of being a beginner in front of others is exactly the muscle.
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With your friends you already have a role and everyone honours it. In front of strangers you have to choose who you are again, and that is where it shows.
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Playing for its own sake is fine. Playing and then being asked what you did and why is a different thing. That part is what changes something.
What we are making
Community is not a product line. It is where the argument gets tested in public — and where we would rather collaborate with the people already doing something than announce ourselves as the organizers of everything.
Free
The open night. You arrive alone, play for two hours with people you do not know, and at the end we run the same debrief we run for teams who pay us.
Together
There are already people running good things — festivals, clubs, coworkings, community nights. We would rather bring a Playground lens to one of those than start a competing calendar: design the play part, run the debrief, and leave the audience with whoever built it.
Series
Conversations about play, people, and the things that keep us alive — with anyone interesting, at any age, from any line of work. Filmed in a ball pit, because an interview about play conducted across a boardroom table is already the wrong answer.
In development
A way to find what you actually have in common with someone — hobbies, obsessions, the reason you play at all — instead of trading job titles. Built to find playmates rather than contacts, and to make the human bits of a team visible without making anybody socialise.
Also being built
None of them has a date. These are the ideas we are landing, and they are here so you can see where this is going — and tell us which one you want most.
All of these are sketches. None has a date, a venue or a price. If one of them calls you, say so below and it moves up the list.01
A walk with a question. You walk in pairs that rotate, and each stretch brings its own question.
Sunday morning · 90 min · outdoors
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Board games with people you do not know — chosen for what they reveal rather than for how fun they are.
Weeknight · 2 h · indoors
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Structured conversation between strangers. No small talk: straight in, with rules that make it possible.
One evening · 2 h · groups of 4
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A play space for adults, no agenda. Materials, games and time. You come to play whatever you want with whoever you want.
Saturday afternoon · drop in and out
The list
Everything on this page is small on purpose, and we would rather tell twenty people who genuinely want to come than announce it to everyone. Tick what you want to hear about — that is also how we decide what to build first.
Or just say hello
If none of the boxes above is quite the thing, tell us what you would actually turn up to. The formats above came from people answering exactly that.
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