Adele Cleaver joins Annie Friday this week on Out of Line. Adele is a Playworker and the founder of Big Blue Play, a pop-up playspace in England. Adele shares all about her knowledge and passion for the field of playwork. Playworkers protect and provide space for play as well as engage in research, advocacy, and education efforts to help others realize the value in free authentic play. Adele explains how she looks for nuanced cues and relies on reflective practices to ensure she is optimizing her role as a playworker. Adele also shares her journey as a parent trying to live a life that reflects her values and allows for play, boredom, and free time.
You can find more from Adele on Instagram @adeleplayworker or @bigblueplay or buy her book Children Don’t Dissolve in the Rain; Find out more about Playwork through The Playwork Foundation or Playwork Wales
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Annie Friday is an educator, entrepreneur, podcast host, and birth doula. Most recently, Annie co-founded Blue Bridge Agile Learning Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Blue Bridge serves families engaged in self-directed education pursuits. Annie considers herself a recovering teacher engaged in the ongoing process of deschooling and relearning everything she has ever known about education. Annie is a public school parent who is actively working to decenter school in her family life. Annie believes all learning needs to be learner-led, consent-based, and rooted in play. Annie holds a master’s degree in early childhood education. Her teacher and family training focuses on supporting young children through play, nature, and mindfulness. Annie lives in Michigan with her husband and two young children. Together they enjoy playing outside hiking, camping, boating, and skiing as well as inside with board games, video games, dancing, doing yoga, and cooking.
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