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Welcome to Ludemos "a playful community"
This site offers updates
on the work of Ludemos and Ludemos Associates.
You will also find
information on the Integral Play Framework, an introduction to
Psycholudics (the study of the mind and psyche at play) and references to important papers in this area, related
topics and a link to the authors Gordon Sturrock, Perry Else and others,
to talk about the application of Therapeutic Playwork.
Therapeutic playworkers need at least to:
* Be skilled in
sensitive assessments of the children's play cues
* Have a knowledge base encompassing childhood and child development
* Have 'cultural competence' - of their own and others' cultures
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Have integrity and authenticity (and so a degree of self knowledge)
* Have a sense of humour!
Playworkers and other adults working
with children will find many useful concepts here that help describe the
complex phenomena of play. These concepts add up to an application that
can be used when working with children to better to facilitate the play
experience.
Key to this new form of
practice is the understanding that children will play as it is in their
nature so to do. Adults can enhance play
opportunities by sensitively interacting with children and by
establishing stimulating play environments, deepening their capacity to
offer insight and meaningful response.
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