5The Be Playful Onion Model

DOI: 10.4324/9781003090847-6

In this chapter we:

  • Introduce you to the shiny new Be Playful Onion Model
  • Explore how this may help navigate the realm of playfulness
  • Integrate the OLIW model of playfulness
  • Examine the idea of serious playfulness
  • Share a fireside chat with Professor Proyer, leading adult playfulness researcher
  • See that playfulness is so much more than fun
  • Look at Graham Lee’s Character Compass Model and start to experiment with integrating this model with the Be Playful Onion Model

Albert Einstein threw down a gauntlet that if you can’t explain something simply, you don’t understand it enough and ‘everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler’. With the caveat that much brighter minds ...

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