• Do you remember learning how to ride a bike when you were a
kid? Your parents probably instructed you how to peddle and
steer, but you never really learned until you started peddling
yourself.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re learning how to ride a bike,
or starting a new job, active-learning strategies provide
hands-on learning benefits that cannot be replaced.
• Group active-learning game sessions increase student
engagement, critical thinking, and real-world collaborative
skills which are essential in every workplace today.
• Most importantly…. It’s a FUN way to learn!
• LARP games create fictional settings where players
physically act as characters while trying to solve the
real-world plot of the game.
• Owner and founder, Shawn Roske, wrote an award-winning LARP
in 2017. In this game, the players acted as staff of a group
home for the developmentally disabled, struggling to discuss
the sexuality of residents. The goal of the game was for the
characters to create a corporate policy to deal with the
matter.
• This LARP exercise intentionally assigns roles to create
collaboration and conflict to develop deliberative skills
amongst the players.
• At Playstories Canada, the player is more important than the game. If a person is overwhelmed or needs a break from playing, we kindly ask them to make an “X,” with their arms to signal a stoppage of play.
• Whether it is a Tabletop, or Improv, Role-Play game, they
generally can take anywhere from 1-4 hours, sometimes
longer.
• Our games are group activities which means several players
are needed. The number of players can range anywhere from 2 to
12.