The Academy of Play
The UK’s only Blended Learning Community: Combining In-Person Residential Weekends with an Online Community
We Create Experiential Learning Experiences and Communities for Young People
Helping uncover and tap into desire so as to create the skills to act agentically in the world.
Working collaboratively to make change possible. Inspiring youth to be active forces for good in their communities.
Building Confidence, Group Decision Making and Conflict Resolution Skills
Creating Community Changemakers
Creating Community Changemakers is the UK’s first dedicated online self-directed learning community. Whilst more and more self-directed learning communities are founded every year the majority of self-directed teenagers do not live within access to a dedicated local space. That is where we come in. Blending in-person residential weekends with an online community we give access to self-directed education and community.
We focus on developing the skills to self-direct your goals through an individual project, turning those skills out into your community with a small-scale project for local good, and collaborating with other teenagers in the program to create shared, creative outputs and collective impact.
Recommendations
“Tim has an immense capacity for playfulness balanced by willingness and skill to deep dive on any topic, from systems for playfulness to football skills to - when requested to deliver in the style of a secondary school teacher - the history of the Mongolian Empire!”
Bess - Facilitator at The Garden
“Tim has been supportive of T. since he first met him nearly 4 years ago. Tim's attention to his educational and emotional needs has always been first class and has made himself available whenever he has asked for help or needed a listening ear.”
Eli -parent of learner at The Garden
“Tim makes you feel actually supported and listened to. He has brought joy into my education.”
T. - 15 year old student
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If you are interested in our Creating Community Changemakers project we are happy to talk you through what we offer and determine if it would be the right fit for your family.
However, we are also happy to work with young people on a one-to-one basis using our methodology.
If your young person is too young for our project, or would prefer one-to-one sessions rather than group collaboration and feedback on their goals we are happy to provide learning mentorship individually as well. Please feel free to reach out to us to discuss how we can help your learner work towards their goals.