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Facilitation Playground | How to deal with disengaged participants?

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🎨 Playground: Practice facilitation, active learning, and workshop design. Host a session, try new methods, and get community feedback. Courage over perfection! ✨ Participation: Highly interactive, cameras on, breakouts, whiteboards.

Discover your Archetype and learn how to respond when participants tune out.

​In this playful, immersive session, participants will explore their unique Learning Enabler (arche)types—as described in The Immersive Theatre of Learning—and experiment with leading a learner stuck in a fixed mindset toward curiosity, confidence, and active engagement.

​Join Adis Sophie and Bernd for a hands-on session where you won’t just talk about transformation, you’ll act it out.

🎁 Key takeaways

  • Discover your facilitation style - Explore different learning enabler archetypes and experiment with new approaches to create a more holistic facilitation practice

  • Master playful resistance tools - Learn improv techniques to effectively work with challenging mindsets and turn resistance into engagement

  • Integrate theatre and embodiment - Use immersive theatre, role play, and acting techniques to build deeper emotional connection in your learning sessions

  • Challenge learning labels - Take a critical perspective on how we categorize learners and enablers to create more inclusive spaces

About our hosts

Adis Sophie combines 15 years of corporate experience in sales, marketing, and sustainability with life design expertise. She brought Stanford's Designing Your Life program to the Netherlands, creating inclusive, high-energy learning environments.

Bernd Gibson designs Immersive Learning Experiences in cultural adaptation, leadership, and experience design. Author of The Immersive Theatre of Learning (2024), he's a Pine & Gilmore Certified Experience Economy Expert and works across academia, business, and private retreats.

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