
“We are seeing a decrease in children’s readiness for school and academic learning. Which is increasingly affected by social and emotional development. This lack of readiness negatively affects ability to perform.”
(Webster – Stratton, C., & Reid, M. J. 2004)
Ramshackle (adjective Ä ram·shack·le Ä ram-sha-kəl Ä) “poorly constructed or in a state of near collapse”.
Ramshackle Play training guides participants’ skills and knowledge in the scientific and experiential benefits of unstructured play on learning, coping and thriving in education, recreation, and health care. We provide you with the tools to effectively balance success and challenge with risk vs. hazard in developing physical, social, and intellectual resilience, readiness and adaptability.
Risk and play are the avenue to multigenerational physical health, cognitive flexibility, memory, attention, social connection, and belonging. We introduce you to play with materials that are seemingly no longer useful and together we re-invent their purpose, exposing you to the benefits of risky play.
Our Ramshackle Play training is broken into 3 levels:
This has been a difficult yet rewarding mindset to adopt. I look forward to Level 2 training where I can really practice and get comfortable with the elements of risky play!
I come from a school that has very limited resources. This training will definitely change how I operate programming and provide opportunities for my students with what we have.
This has been just incredible. Ramshackle Play not only introduces risky play, but is focusing on the health of our environment by reusing materials that most people just throw away.
I have never really had anyone tell me there is a difference between risk and hazard, and how important it is for the development of my students to experience risk in play. We always intervened as soon as something seemed risky even in the slightest and now I realize how we may have held some of them back from what they could achieve.