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Ludemos Associates
Please contact us if you want
to know more about our work or book us for a conference or course
Ludemos
Our Vision:
Improving playwork practice through training and
development
An independent agency made up some
of the preeminent thinkers and trainers in play and playwork, working
together to develop good playwork practice
Our main aims and objectives:
Improving play opportunities for children
- To improve playwork practice in the UK and the rest of
the world
- To help playwork thinking move on, helping the
profession
Delivering good quality playwork training and information
materials
- To provide real quality in what we do; so that quality
is associated with Ludemos and our work is taken seriously
- To formalise the work we do, creating an effective
brand linked to quality materials
- To ensure that this work is sustainable
Ensuring that the work of Associates is recognised and
valued by the playwork field
- To act as a principled organisation
- To capture the thinking of the group; forming a bank
of understanding to be shared with the playwork field
Acting with integrity and professionalism
- To work only to the highest standards in the field
Being playful in what we do
- To set an example by being playful in what we do
Ludemos Standards:
In Ludemos Associates, we will strive to:
- Act as a principled organisation
- Act with integrity and professionalism as Associates
- Work only to the highest standards in the field
- Ensure our materials are of an agreed professional
quality
- Deliver ‘state of the art’ presentations and courses
- Publish works to an agreed format
- Maintain constructive relationships with Associates,
colleagues and clients
- Respect agreements including time deadlines and
communication links
- Be solution oriented with a constructive approach
- 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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Julia Sexton
BA Hons PGCE
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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.
He lives and works from his sizeable mansion on the
South Manchester Riviera.
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Ludemos