ABOUT US

Playful Thinking

Playful Thinking delivers professional development and consulting services to businesses, non-profits, schools and government; utilising the power of play to help us live and work in smarter, happier and more connected ways.

WHAT WE DO

Workshops

Our in-person and online workshops includes the presentation of the key ideas, group activities, personal reflection and follow up exercises for the team to use into the future. All workshop materials are supplied, along with a summary of the key ideas. Browse our workshops by the industry you’re in and join the waitlist. We will give you the first opportunity to book into the workshop once their next semester dates are released.

Consulting & Collaborating

  • Private workshop for your organisation, team or company

  • Consulting services and how ideas from the world of play can help you design the systems, strategies and culture of your organisation or team

  • Professional development services and would like to work together on a larger project or to join a tender, please get in touch.

  • Collaborate in a way yet imagined

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Arts & Museum Programs

Daniel has collaborated with museums and arts programs to developed playful audience interactions that add fun and personal relevance to a museum or arts experience.

Get in touch to talk about your exhibition or arts event and how we can collaborate to draw and engage audiences.

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WHAT PEOPLE
SAY

Client Testimonials

Zac Leigh

Co-Founder and CEO, Tixel

“Our team gained a lot from the Values to Virtues workshop run by Playful Thinking. As a rapidly growing team, it was important for us to define our company values and to include the team in the process. The creative exercises and discussions helped us to define the values we cared about most and the performance exercises helped connect our values to concrete actions. We learned a lot about each other and our organisation and we had a lot of fun doing it.”

Claus Kristensen

General Manager, LEGO Australia New Zealand

"Daniel came to our conference to speak about Play and it was a great session that everyone loved. The good mix of fun, theory and exercises engaged the organization as well as gave some us some great insights and learnings"

Will Richardson

Managing Partner, Giant Leap

"Daniel ran a Lego play session for Giant Leap. We are a tight knit team, led by our mission to back mission driven founders to solve the world's most pressing problems. Many of us have worked closely together for years but we also had two incredible new starters join us this year. Daniel designed and curated an engaging, interactive and fun session where we all felt safe to share parts of ourselves that we hadn’t revealed to one another or the group. It helped us better understand one another, what matters and what’s unique and also how we are different and those differences can be celebrated. Lastly, Daniel helped us to articulate our personal visions into a united and coherent narrative. We all loved the session and recommended Daniel’s philosophy based Lego play sessions to build stronger connections between teams in a fun way."

OUR WORK

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LEAD
FACILITATOR

Daniel Teitelbaum

Daniel Teitelbaum is the Director and lead facilitator at Playful Thinking. He is responsible for creating and delivering programs and workshops that develop the culture, strategy and capacity of modern organisations through play.

Daniel studied Philosophy, Law and Theatre Studies at Monash University before helping to build The School of Life Australia as Head of Programs and Head of Content.

Daniel has worked as a comedy writer, producer and performer, an associate teacher of design and a radio broadcaster on 3RRR, SouthernFM and ABC774 (joining Afternoons with Jacinta Parsons for a regular Playful Philosophy segment).

Daniel has a Diploma in Community Governance from the Institute of Community Directors and is the General Manager of Games for Change Asia Pacific, a non-profit that supports games and game developers working in education, health and social change.

If you’d like to work with Daniel for work outside of Playful Thinking workshops, feel free to get in touch here or through LinkedIn.

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