New Games Workshops

During the New Games Leadership Workshops Dale teaches attendees the games and how to lead them with their group. Leading New Games is different than traditional sport. The workshop is very hands on, as participants practice leading the games with feedback from Dale. Then finish by leading an open session where family, friends, and the community are invited to give workshop participants a real-life experience of games leading.

At a workshop you will learn how to:

• Lead many New Games for groups
• Facilitate a new style of play that encourages freedom and creativity
• Integrate cooperative games with competition
• Use many New Games in your program
• Increase participation in your program of cooperative games by including people usually left out of more traditional sport programs
• Involve the community in your program
• Plan and organize successful, well attended events
• Adapt any cooperative games so that everyone can play

You will also experience these new ideas:

• Creating the play community
• The playful games leader
• Creative play
• Changing rules to meet players’ needs
• Soft War
• Energy Flow
• Trust games

Who Should Attend?

• Recreation Leaders
• Teachers
• Physical Education Instructors
• Community Organizers
• Personnel Directors
• Social Workers
• School Activities Coordinators
• Health Professionals, including physical therapists and mental health workers
• Parents
• Religious Activities Directors
• Camp Directors
• Anyone who leads or is part of a group

In New Games, the goal is for everyone to have fun playing together. The people playing are the most important part of any game. Games are changed to meet players’ needs. As a result, the New Games concept can be used in any area of human relations to create a bond of trust, communication, and community.