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This page contains contact information
about Ludemos Associates.
Please contact us
if you want to know more about our work or
book us for a conference or course.
Improving playwork practice through training and
development
Our Vision:
An independent agency made up some of the best
thinkers and trainers in play and playwork, working together to develop the best
playwork practice
Our main aims and objectives
Improving play opportunities for children
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To improve playwork practice in the UK and the rest of
the world
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To help playwork thinking move on, helping the profession
Delivering the best quality playwork training and
information materials
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To provide real quality in what we do; so that quality
is associated with Ludemos and the work is taken seriously
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To formalise the work we do, creating an effective
brand linked to quality materials
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To ensure that this work is sustainable
Ensuring that the work of associates is recognised and
valued by the playwork field
Acting with integrity and professionalism
Being playful in what we do
Ludemos Standards: In Ludemos Associates, we will strive
to:
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Act as a principled organisation
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Act with integrity and professionalism as Associates
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Work only to the best standards in the field
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Ensure our materials are of an agreed professional quality
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Deliver ‘state of the art’ presentations and courses
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Publish works to an agreed format
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Maintain constructive relationships with Associates,
colleagues and clients
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Respect agreements including time deadlines and
communication links
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Be solution oriented with a constructive approach
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Be playful and creative in what we do
Gordon Sturrock
MA PGCE
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Gordon is more than middle aged and still enjoys playing. He
believes there is no such thing as an adult, only children of different
ages. He was brought up in India, which he feels, gave him a unique
perspective on play and playing. Most of his working life has been
happily absorbed in the search for meaningful explanations for play,
most particularly in therapy, where he saw play being used for curative
outcome with too little acknowledgement.
Psycholudics is an attempt to describe play in new dimensions as
transpersonal and directly related to our being. Consequently he
believes play can be seen as both ecological and healing.
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Perry Else
BA Hons PGCHE FHEA
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Perry has played in a variety of settings over the years including (in
chronological order) tin baths, back yards, garages, cemeteries, estate
roads, fields, adventure playgrounds (Sheffield), art college, bands,
galleries, department stores, adventure playgrounds (London), after
school clubs, community groups, sports centres, holiday playschemes,
adventure playgrounds (Bristol), play policy groups, development trusts,
arts projects, play conferences, council chambers, consultancy projects,
seminar rooms… and always on beaches and in woods.
Perry is fascinated
by the balance in human growth imposed by genetics and from
cultural and social influences.
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MEd BA Hons PGCHE
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Wendy discovered adventure playgrounds in 1974 and was smitten. She
has worked in playwork ever since in a variety of roles and guises,
much of this in education and training. She currently divides her
time between her work as a lecturer at University of
Gloucestershire, freelance work, work with Ludemos and her own
research and writing. She is particularly interested in developing a
language to explain what is unique about the playwork role.
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MSc BA Hons PGCE
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Sarah is a designer and lecturer in art
and design who for several years ran her own business. She has written a
Masters thesis on the influence of play on fashion. She also delivers
seminars and workshops on developing creativity. She has three children
and likes dressing up.
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Eddie Nuttall
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Eddie Nuttall has been a playworker in various locations since he left
school. In the (financial) spaces in-between, he has also been a
musician, a play-setting support worker, a barperson, a mental health
volunteer, a youth worker, a consultant, a student, and a writer. Eddie
is exploring the relationship between self and other in the play-space,
and the stories that unfold from this relationship.
Possible Summers: Stories and
Reflections from the Playspace (released by Ludemos Associates May
2010) is Eddie’s first attempt at exploring this material in detail.
He lives and works from his sizeable mansion on the
South Manchester Riviera.
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Julia Sexton
BA Hons PGCE
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