Fun Coaching – workshop

First session (what’s fun for you)

Opening Game: Identity Exchange (losing and finding yourself)

Overview of course and introduction to Fun Coaching

• Defining fun – major (flow) and minor fun

Fun list (interview each other – begin a list that describes what’s fun in your life)

• be sure to include ativities and experiences including both extremes of fun
• some key questions:
  • What’s fun for you (make list)
  • What’s the most fun (organize list)
  • (Pick an item that interests you.)
    • What’s fun about that
    • How do you make it more fun
    • What happens when it’s not as much fun as you wanted it to be
  • What else can you add to the list
  • (Pick another item)
    • What does it feel like when it feels “good” (right, satisfying, rewarding…)

Defining fun

• J’Accuse

• Game review (we’ll be using this process frequently, together and in pairs)
  • Identify three “fun moments” during the game.
  • What did you do to make the game as fun as it was?
  • What were other people doing to help make it fun?
  • What else contributed to making it fun?

Coliberation

communing with community

• One Clap
• Orchestral Tune Up
• Sound Travel
• New Ballet – Face Dancing
• - Review

Improvisational gaming

games anywhere – creating fun

• Found object scrabble
• Found object golf
• Food Games
  • Finger Food roulette
  • Long Knives and the Big Plate Special
• - Review

Assignment:

• Review and revise your funlist
• Meet (face-to-face and/or virtually) with your coach/partner – describe moments of fun as you go about:
  • Eating
  • Resting, napping, sleeping
  • Bathing
  • Cleaning
  • Waiting
  • Walking
  • Driving
  • Meditating
  • Getting massaged
  • Working

Second session (expanding the fun repertoire)

• The Blessings Game – maybe one of the potentially most loving of the semi-games

Report and review: what is fun for you? how does fun coaching heal?

A tour of deepFUN.com, and an introduction to computer-supported coaching

The games we will be playing this session can be played as a group, in pairs, as well as in solitary contemplation.

Begin with these group games:

• The “Real” Verbal Ping Pong
• Round Conversation

Then these:

• Yes…and
• Phantasy Photoshop

Then these games, which can be played in groups, in pairs, and in solitary contemplation:

• Inner Elevator
• Tire swing
• Serious and silly
• Hide and seek
• see also Recess for the Soul
• - Review

Transformational Games

group games, playing with meaning

• It Could be Worse – a good game to keep things in perspective
• Dayeinu, the game
• Kvetch Kakaphony
• – Review

Discussion: the connections between fun and joy

Elements of fun coaching

• the most important question: what are you doing for fun
  • find someone else to be your fun coach
  • keep exploring your own fun
• begin with a survey of what the client does for fun
• the main goal: help the client expand that list
• always focus on fun (with your client and yourself)
• make conversation itself fun
• in subsequent meetings, review the client’s fun list, add to it, prioritize
• use deep fun for quotes, thoughts to email client between meetings
• work with individuals in as many different settings as comfortable: online, via email, Skype; face-to-face – on walks, over coffee, watching kids at a playground…
• working with groups:
  • use the games follow the processes we used in these two workshop sessions
  • whenever possible, follow up with individual meetings as above