THE PLAY OF LIFE BEHAVIOUR TRANSFORMATION PROGRAMS
Leading edge technology for business, life and for coaching
Play of Life Behaviour Transformation Programs:
All Play of Life Programs are available to be delivered by highly experienced and accredited Play of Life Practitioners in your workplace. For Further details contact Flexibility At Work on Tel: (02)9402 4741
The 3d simulation technology known as the Play of Life® is designed to rapidly affect positive transformational change in individuals and organisations. The methodology is practical, elegant, respectful and engaging; people relate to it readily.
Play of Life produces breakthroughs in any area where success and growth rely on individual insight and interpersonal dynamics by allowing people to present issues, concerns, feelings and goals three-dimensionally. People go beyond verbal descriptions and explanations to literally “see” relationships and situations clearly.
We apply the Play of Life extensively in the programs that we offer to workplaces. These programs include organisational culture change, team building, conflict resolution, cross-cultural communication, diversity management, change management, work/life balance, leadership, Life-Corporate coaching and the enhancement of inventories including LSI-OCI-GDI and SDI.
The Play of Life was created by Psychiatrist, MBA, Life Coach and Trainer, Dr. Carlos A. Raimundo.
It evolved out of his professional experience as a medical doctor, corporate trainer and his research
into behavioural modification and neurophysiology. His work has been scientifically validated by the latest
biological research on the brain and the mind. Professor Marcel O. Ponton, from the UCLA School
of Medicine described the method as one that will “revolutionise the way we influence behaviour”.
Dr Raimundo received the prestigious New York Innovators Award from the American Association of Psychodrama
and Group Psychotherapy for the Play of Life in 2004.
For the past 8 years Kerry Fallon Horgan, Flexibility At Work, has trained and worked with Dr Raimundo bringing this transformational technology to professionals and workplaces around Australia.
Play of Life Applications:
Are relationships in your personal life or workplace problematic? Do you want to highly effective teamwork?
You are not alone!
With increasing workplace change and diversity, successfully managing workplace relationships becomes ever more complex. When these relationships don't work the business also suffers.
As a result, communication breaks down, bullying and stress claims can escalate and diversity management becomes problematic.
The outcomes for the busines are:
reduced productivity
reduced morale
reduced employee engagement
increased presenteeism and absenteeism
subsequent staff turnover.
The individual can suffer ineffective personal, family and team relationships and experience negative impacts on their life satisfaction and work performance.
Effective workplace relationships are essential for establishing high performing, flexible workplace cultures where stated organisational values become a reality.
In many training programs, people are told what to do. In the Play of Life programs you will learn how to achieve successful relationships and much more.
You will be given the tools and techniques as well as understand the role you need to develop to achieve the relationships that lead to life satisfaction.
The Play of Life ingeniously transforms a problem or conflict from a complex issue into a simple,
clear and visual representation, where possible solutions can be seen more clearly.
The tool is presently being applied by coaches, counsellors,
facilitators, psychologists, doctors, managers and human resources professionals with outstanding results.
“I have successfully applied many of these techniques in the business environment and in my personal life.
I found them useful tools for business planning, facilitating complex problem solving and continuous improvement in our
organisation. The processes are wonderfully simple and natural to apply and are very 'people friendly' in application”. Andrew Wilson, Director, PT BHP Billiton .
If people don’t get on, individuals, teams and workplaces can’t flourish. Having the skills to effectively coach individuals
or teams who are experiencing relationship issues is a key to helping optimise their well-being and potential.
Also, undertstanding the way others see us and why we relate in particular ways enables us to gain the insights
and strategies to achieve success in our own relationships.
The Play of Life Programs provide the insight and knowledge for success in our work and personal relationships.
The Play of Life 3D Simulation tool is an innovative, international award winning technology. Its application includes organisational culture change, conflict resolution, team building, work/life balance, family therapy, behaviour change, career and transition coaching and performance management.
The unique benefits of this method include:
Language independence and immediate application
Effectiveness beyond language and cultural barriers
Scientifically based and easy to learn.
Based on the Strategic Relationship Management Model, Dr. Raimundo has developed methodologies to work on individual and team relationship dynamics. Dr M Ponton, a professor at UCLA says “I’ve never seen a method like the Play of Life; I believe that this will revolutionise the way we influence behaviour”.
"The workshop provided our participants with powerful insights into how to approach implementing and managing change both from a personal and workplace perspective. There were also lightbulb moments when participants gained a new appreciation about the assumptions we tend to make about other people sharing our perceptions when in teams there is often a significant diversity of opinion which can remain unstated. The creativity of the “play” encouraged our staff to let go of their analytical self and get into the creative flow. This generated great lateral thinking about an “ideal” culture and strategies towards achieving sustainable cultural change. Kerry’s facilitation style was perfectly modulated with a mix of fun, creativity and serious effort and we will be continuing to work with Kerry on our culture change process. -Kim Dixon, People & Organisation Development Director, WWF-Australia
The Play of Life One-Day Workshop Series
Play of Life one-day workshops focus on key workplace issues including Organisational Culture Change, Conflict Resolution, Diversity Management, Team Building, Depression, Addictions, Ethno-dynamics and Psychopathology
All Play of Life Programs are available to be delivered by highly experienced and accredited Play of Life Practitioners in your workplace. For Further details contact Flexibility At Work on Tel: (02)9402 4741
Creating Workplace Culture & Application of the Play fo Life Technology
An experiential workshop designed to:
Create a platform and strategies toward sustainable culture change
Achieve clarity around the issue of effective workplace culture
Identify behaviours and other factors that can promote or impede the achievement of desired outcomes
Provide individual and group insight into the impact of interpersonal behaviour on organisational culture
Stimulate lateral thinking and develop creative solutions to current workplace issues
Identify what conditions are necessary to create and develop new and/or alternative roles and behaviours
Recognise individual and organisational changes that can enable a high performance workplace culture.
ETHNO-DYNAMICS - Dealing with Multicultural Issues & Application of the Play fo Life Technology
An interactive workshop designed to:
Anticipate
Identify
Assess
Manage
Consolidate issues relating to ethnic or multicultural situations.
Applicable to:
Workplaces
Educational contexts
Counselling practice
Aims of the program:
To Address issues presented by individuals, families and/or groups suffering from problems related to ethnic differences (language, religion, culture, etc).
To understand role dynamics and role development and the bases of sociometry.
To deal with common issues such as racial discrimination and transcultural situations.
To assist people to identify and work through different feelings, for example anguish, sadness, depression, anger, frustration.
To help people clarify and manage difficult situations, for instance communication breakdown.
To gain an understanding of mental procesess (psychopathology), which will enable participants to distinguish when a problem is related to the cultural situation or to psychological issues.
Tools for Cross-cultural Communication an article by Dr Carlos Raimundo
Multicultural Australia is not just a political stand it is our daily reality. Living in an homogenous social environment presents its own challenges, all of these are heightened in a multicultural society. With the challenges come opportunities. It is our ability and skill in learning “how to live together” that will maximise this opportunity.
The Ethno-Dynamics workshop has been designed to provide practical skills and tools to identify points in common in dealing with different cultural backgrounds and to maximise the benefits of diversity.
The program applies an innovative coaching tool and methodology, “The Play of Life”.
The workshop will also demystify many “differences” by helping us to effectively connect to people beyond culture. The focus will be on the application of the Play of Life technology for corporate diversity issues such as leadership and management or in professional services organisations. “I have successfully applied many of these techniques in the business environment and in my personal life. I found them useful tools for business planning, facilitating complex problem solving and continuous improvement in our organisation. The processes are wonderfully simple and natural to apply and are very 'people friendly' in application”. Andrew Wilson, Director, PT BHP Billiton .
In the Ethno-Dynamics workshop you will discover:
how to coach new overseas graduates and Australian clients to relate with each other effectively
how frontline management can deal with people challenged with English (LIKE ME!!) and or coming from less privileged socio-educational backgrounds
approaches to coaching and counselling migrants for diversity managers, community centre workers, school counsellers, hospital chaplains and other counselling and human resources professionals.
dealing with family cultural issues and how this affects living and working together.
The unique benefits of this method include:
Language independence and immediate application
Effectiveness beyond language and cultural barriers
Scientifically based and easy to learn.
Listen to how a New Zealand psychologist uses the Play of Life technology in his cross-cultural work in Kiribati.
The Play of Life, based on solid scientific research, provides tools that help people to effectively engage by tapping into the limbic system, the part of the brain that is not affected by culture.
Managing Workplace Diversity an article by Kerry Fallon Horgan
Diversity management is about successfully harnessing and maximising the depth and breadth of the diversity within the workforce. It is a key strategy in developing business competitiveness in an increasingly complex and global marketplace.
Diversity management has three key components:
Understanding and successfully tapping into the wealth of skills, knowledge, ideas, and so on of people from diverse backgrounds and experiences,
Ensuring compliance with the legislative requirements that enable this diversity to be optimised,
Ensuring that the workplace culture, policies, systems and procedures support a diverse workforce.
The bottom-line benefits to an organisation that successfully taps into the richness that diversity brings can be enormous. The costs of not doing so are devastating and can include lost productivity, stress and harassment claims, staff turnover and absenteeism.
Appropriate communication is vital to the success of any diversity program. Communication barriers result largely from cultural differences but also from gender differences, age differences, stereotyping, assumptions and so on.
Strategies for avoiding cross-cultural communication breakdown include:
Being aware of your own values, stereotypes and prejudices and how they block communication
Using language that does not demean, exclude or offend
When accent is an issue, focusing on what is being said not on how
Avoiding slang, jargon and acronyms
Using visuals, diagrams, group discussions to explain written documents
Respecting others beliefs, feelings, opinions and values
Understanding that different cultures resolve conflict differently
Being aware of the benefits of diversity.
Issues that involve cross-cultural communication breakdown can be complex and difficult resolve without the skills and knowledge needed to do so.
An outstanding opportunity to gain the technology, skills and knowledge to successfully deal with cross-cultural issues will is available in our Ethno-dynamics workshop.
Conflict Resolution Workshop :
Anyone who manages or experiences interpersonal or workplace conflict can benefit from this workshop.
You will be able to reduce the time allocated to conflict, and to harness the energy in more productive ways.
Some conflict is inevitable — so let’s deal with it and use it as an opportunity for positive change!
Conflict arises from unfulfilled interests or when values are challenged, and it can be resolved through creative
interaction between people. The sources of conflict and its remedies can be understood clearly using the Play of Life,
which is used as a tool for relational analysis throughout the workshop.
Outcomes:
At the end of the workshop participants will be able to:
Recognise conflict and identify their own style for handling conflict;
Understand which behaviours they find more difficult to deal with;
Describe which roles they play during conflict;
Observe the roles other people play during conflict;
Identify practical ways to resolve conflict;
Develop an effective communication model;
Outline an organisational culture that reduces conflict and resolves it quickly.
Introduction to Psychopathology - Applications in life and business
Psychopathology is a term which refers to either the study of mental illness or mental distress, or the manifestation of behaviours and experiences which may be indicative of mental illness or psychological impairment. Wikipedia
The way we live directly relates to the way we see ourselves in life (self knowledge, self esteem etc), the way we see the world and our place in life (world view) and the way we behave (relationships).
Self Identity, world view and behaviour develop in our life through life experience but would ultimately rely on how the mind processes that information. We can see life through a clear lens or murky lens. It is mind that provides this lens.
This workshop will provide:
A simple and practical introduction to mental disorders and their relevance to our lives in general and in the workplace
Definitions of both simple and complex psychological disorders
Ways of creating a “close enough” psychological assessment (non-professional) of our own and others behaviours
Practical ways of addressing those issues
How to relate and deal with some key disorders such as: histrionic behaviour, depression, bi-polar disorder, antisocial (psychopathic) behaviour and obsessions.
This workshop is for those who want to:
Learn more about the way you think and relate.
Understand those around you, whether family, friends or work colleagues
Incorporate skills and knowledge about these issues in your profession as a Corporate Coach, Educator, Counsellor, Manager or Leader.
All Play of Life Programs are available to be delivered by highly experienced and accredited Play of Life Practitioners in your workplace. For Further details contact Flexibility At Work on Tel: (02)9402 4741
Addictions in life and the workplace:
In this interactive one-day workshop you will discover:
New skills and tools
The causes of addiction
How to identifies addictive behaviour
The role of family systems
Psychopathology and addictions
The recovery process
Self help techniques for client and family
The applicability of support systems
Practitioner interventions
Spirituality and addictions
Readily applicable techniques to deal with addiction
New advanced techniques not taught in the 6 day Accreditation program due to time restrictions.
Workshop Participant feedback:
"As a leadership developer, coach or facilitator the joy in your work
and the impact on your clients will just amaze you, once you begin to use the
brilliance of the Play of Life." -Paul Mitchell, Managing Director, The Human Enterprise
"An insightful two days providing new perspectives on not only structuring training,
but for resolution of difficulties in the workplace environment. This is a transportable
technology that works brilliantly in every environment in which there are relationships." -Kristine Shead, International Directory of Studies, Universal Education and Training
"Simple, profound, practical, breathtaking in every way. The Play of Life facilitates
a journey that is respectful, gentle and empowering. I want more." - Matthew Alley, Producer
" Very useful tool. Quite astounding how powerful
it is when you take time to review, reflect and observe what has
been created. Simple but powerful." - Cara Haslop. HR Manager. Pitcher Partners.
" Insightful. Taps into emotional content." - J. Lacoon. Head HR. AMP
"The Play of Life is so dynamic and simple. The power behind this model is second to none. It is the future
for anyone in the healing and corporate training field." -Robert Gourlay, Pastor.
"Experience has taught that I do not normally have great expectations as to the beneficial outcome of seminars
and conferences. This has been a dramatic exception. There have been numerous specific applications to my personal
relationships and to the corporate context with its relationships and roles in which i am involved. Some techniques
will be more specifically helpful to me than others. But all are useful." -Barry Oliver, Administrator
"Excellent techniques for getting to the core of issues and for progressing with clients quickly." -Colin Small, Business Consultant, Aims2Gains
"A well structred workshop. Good use of materials. Hands on approach. A good combination of theory and Practical.
Good techniques that can be used in a range of situations for example assisting to find meaningful and satisfying careers,
workplace issues etc. Very warm and approachable facilitators." -Chris Robson, Career Agent, Quantum Shift
" Different way to conceptualise thoughts/feelings. Creative outlet." - A.Joss. HR Manager. AMP
"Logical analysis which has allowed me to understand and gain insight into why I do what I do, feel the way I
feel and have an understanding of how I can go about instituting change." - Carolyn Madden, Principal, Womens Survival Skills
" I have suddenly been given a set of tools that will dramatically improve the effectiveness of my coaching and
counselling with an associated increase in my confidence." - Grahame Murphy, Principal, Murphy Dynamics Pty Ltd.
Feedback on the Play of Life One-day Programs:
"Since completing the diploma of counselling at Wesley Institute I have found the PoL kit to be invaluable
in counselling a wide group of people; its use has gone from a Family Counselling Clinic at QUT to assisting people
caught up on the wrong side of the law in courts and prisons. The kit is a very useful tool enabling counselling on
a number of fronts. These include motivational interviewing, client centred counselling and solution focused therapy.
The kit provides clients with an objective view of their relationships and proves the maxim that one picture is worth
a thousand words. I would recommend its use to any counsellor wanting to maximize their effectiveness." -Bert George [Major], Chaplain & Counsellor.
"Depression can be a challenging issue for practitioners and clients to deal with, but applying the Play
of Life tool to it, allows both the client and the practitioner to explore the issue of depression in a unique
and constructive way. The Play of Life has enabled me to work with my clients in an affirming way that offers
hope and possibility - it's a deceptively 'simple' approach with a surprisingly elegant depth." -Margherita Larné-Jones, Senior Consultant, Human Synergistics International.
"My willingness to travel to Sydney from Melbourne to attend this and other workshops presented by
Dr. Carlos Raimundo is a measure of how much I value his method. The particular value of this workshop,
addressing the topic of depression, was the importance given to the theoretical background.
A clear understanding of the theory will enable me not just to copy Carlos's procedures but to adapt them to my own use." -Trish Fitzsimmons, Teacher/Creative Arts Practitioner.
"Just when you thought you had a grasp on the ingenious use of the Play of Life, Dr Carlos Raimundo
demonstrates again and again how we can never underestimate its awesome power, flexibility and potential
in helping people move on in their life. Through the master training topic of depression, the Play of Life,
based on a strong yet simplistic theoretical foundation, enables you to reframe depression for your client
in an easy to understand, visual representation, empowering them to identify the first step to take towards
a better way of living." -Martin Pearce, Psychologist/Family Therapist.
All Play of Life Programs are available to be delivered by highly experienced and accredited Play of Life Practitioners in your workplace. For Further details contact Flexibility At Work on Tel: (02)9402 4741
