Self-Study Subscription
Learn to implement play into your work at your own pace.
About the Program
Community-driven action, at your own pace
The PLAYCE Self-Study Program focuses on promoting community-driven action and positive change. It helps individuals, organizations, and communities empower themselves to build a better environment. It provides a comprehensive range of coaching and facilitation techniques, emphasizing communication and collaboration, to develop the skills needed to become a successful facilitator, including the ability to create a safe and productive environment for group discussions, problem solving, and decision making.
This self-study program lets you work at your own pace, and guides you in creating your own group of players to learn and practice facilitation and leadership skills. It's organized similarly to the live Coaching Program, where participants are immersed in playing, facilitating, and practicing. Through play and practice, participants become successful facilitators, bringing more vibrant and engaging techniques to every scale of project or initiative.
The content consists of lectures, videos, articles, and experiential learning. You will get out of this program more than what you put into it.
Intended Outcomes
What you will gain by working through the program.
Empower Yourself
The modules are organized for easy following.
Gain an Understanding of Play
Cultivate skills to use play language, create and facilitate experiences, and track your own progress.
Build Community & Foster Champions
Use the lens of play to create activities and experiences that build quality relationships quickly and empower a community to become champions.
Explore Collaborative Problem-Solving
Explore activities and facilitation skills that move groups to build trust, empathy, and belonging, allowing participants to find consensus quickly.
Optimize Performance with Data
Develop core knowledge of data collection that can inform design projects, comprehensive plans, stewardship plans, or organizational strategic plans.
Get Empowered
"Fortunately, I have a decent capacity to keep a group engaged, and this program just added new tools to that skillset. I feel more confident that I can get useful information from the group using PLAYCE tools."
"I have felt more empowered in this course than any school course I have ever taken. There's something special about how easy it is while being so impactful. I wish university courses felt this empowering."
"PLAYCE is a cohort of really talented and engaged industry professionals that will, together, build each other up and encourage real-world impacts that will make your community better. There is no better place to experiment with bringing people together because PLAYCE gives us license."
Pricing Plans
Standard Individual
Timed-release access, content drops monthly. $385/year (one month free).
- Timed-release access to Lessons, Videos, Resource Library & Games
- Insight Card Deck $250
Premium Individual
Immediate access to the full Play Portal. $539/year (one month free).
- Immediate access to Lessons, Videos, Resource Library & Games
- Insight Card Deck $250
Premium Company
Up to 6 team members get immediate full access. $2,739/year (one month free). After payment you'll submit individual access info.
- Immediate access to Lessons, Videos, Resource Library & Games
- Insight Card Deck $250
How the plans differ
The quality and format of the program is the same at every pricing level. The major difference is when you get access to the content: the Standard Individual subscription offers timed-release access with content dropping monthly, while Premium plans unlock everything immediately. Whether you're an individual, a student, or part of a larger firm, we offer varied pricing and payment options to choose from.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does the schedule look like?
The Self-Study Program is on your schedule. You choose when and how often you work with the material and practice facilitating the exercises.
What can I do to be successful?
The best way to move through the material is to follow the Self-Study Syllabus. Although each cohort is customized for each group's needs, the syllabus closely mirrors a typical coaching cohort without the group experience.
How do I fit this into my workload?
We strongly recommend finding one project, current or upcoming, that you can actively work on during the program. You'll plan, prepare, and practice facilitating the entire engagement plan for your project, so your time in the portal is spent actively learning and planning innovative strategies for real work.
How long do I get portal access?
You'll receive portal access from the date of first purchase until your subscription is cancelled.
What sort of content is in the portal?
Content written specifically to advance our cohort and members' knowledge of using play in community engagement, articles, videos, game instruction sheets, methodology instruction sheets, tips, and more. We're constantly adding to it.
What will I get out of this?
The intention is for you to personally gain the knowledge and skills to implement this methodology in your community engagement practice, which can lead to improved community and project-leader relationships, community members becoming project champions, rapid consensus building, and budget savings from less time spent on design iterations and drawn-out process.