The Game Giver's Lab

Play Facilitators · Movement Coaches · Outdoor Educators

Making your sessions, games and essence unforgettable.

A game-design training: Create original material. Trust your innovation. Leave the borrowed sessions behind.

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Borrowed sessions, repeat material and other peoples games.

It starts as the safe option, but over time, the sessions lose their freshness, your creativity takes a hit, and the work loses its aliveness.

You become the messenger for other peoples work, and leave behind your own innovative potential.

Nice to meet you,
I'm Charlie.

Charlie

Over five years of Giving Games worldwide, I've had the honour of learning from the best movement coaches, play researchers, and facilitators alive — these people inspired me to begin decoding the mechanisms behind what they offer.

Alongside this, through my research, as co-founder of Roots of Play and the coaching team at Evolve Move Play, I've collected a wealth of data that I'm excited to share with you, in hopes I can help you write your own story as a successful Game Giver.

Design Sessions rich in innovation

Staying the same is not an option.

01

Uncover hidden principles

Identify the learning principles underneath any skill, concept, or teaching objective, and why they matter.

02

Reverse-engineer into games

Take any principle and translate it into exercises, games, and experiences that are alive and intentional.

03

Build original sessions

Stop depending on borrowed formats. Learn to trust your own creative process to build sessions that feel genuinely yours.

04

Develop a gameful lens

Learn to see the body, emotion, and constraints as creative material. Begin to see game design everywhere in life.

05

Design under any constraint

Walk into almost any room with almost any objective and creatively build meaningful experiences from what's available.

06

Trust your creative instincts

Develop confidence in real-time creative thinking with groups, originality, spontaneity, and structure working together.

Your practice needs this.

Less prep stress

You stop dreading the blank page before each session, because you know how to build something good from whatever you've got.

Smoother facilitation

You lead from presence instead of scrambling for structure, so sessions hold their energy from start to finish.

Confidence and flow

You trust yourself to adapt and create in the moment, reading the room and reshaping a game on the fly.

Better experiences

Your participants feel the difference, stay engaged, and leave with something they actually remember.

Draped over a boulder

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

Albert Einstein

You'll recognise yourself here

Let's be real

  • You want pre-made solutions handed to you without developing your own creative instincts
  • You're looking for rigid formulas or step-by-step scripts to follow
  • You want a formal certificate or professional qualification

Welcome to The Game Givers Lab

An online practice container for facilitation design

A Game giver — someone who can design beautiful sessions from any principle, creating environments that play can emerge. Not by relying on a library of activities, but by understanding and trusting ones own ability to invent them

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Everything you need

10

Live Online Sessions

Core training delivered live, with you in the room, not passive video content.

2

Additional Live Q&A / Design Support Sessions

Dedicated time to get support, ask questions, and workshop your own design challenges.

Homework & Practice Implementation

Real practices to work with between sessions, so this lands in your body, not just your head.

1

Digital Handbook

Tools for facilitation and innovation to reference long after the training ends.

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Group Accountability

A cohort of practitioners doing this alongside you, sharing, building, and holding each other forward.

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Full Session Design Breakdown

A complete breakdown of creative session design and game creation principles to keep forever.

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The Game Givers Modules

Ten modules, each one a doorway. Click into any of them to see what's inside.

  • At our heart, we are all creatives
  • Tools to unlock creative blocks
  • Finding creative outlets that feed your game-making
  • Letting go of the tools and material you've already learned
  • Making space to identify your specific area of interest
  • Spotting the key threads and theories behind every game
  • Turning any principle, theme, or theory into a beautiful, immersive game
  • Developing the gameful lens
  • Understanding the affordances the world offers us to imagine games
  • The key ingredients that make up a good game
  • How to bake these ingredients into your sessions
  • How to serve them with style and finesse
  • The art of game naming
  • Understanding the aim beneath each game
  • How frames house our games
  • Understanding that we're always constrained by the world somehow
  • Nourishing our capacity to see constraints as openings for innovative games
  • Exploring the relationship between spontaneity and structure
  • When does a strong plan actually serve us?
  • The principles of improvisation
  • Pathways into a strong "I've got this" feeling before your session begins
  • Maintaining presence and calm when things go wrong
  • Staying attuned to yourself and your clients' energy, live in session
  • How can the tribe support your journey
  • Game Givers Collaborations
  • Your Next Steps

Dates, times & logistics

Dates

20 Sept to 22 Nov 2026

A ten week course. A rhythm you can build your practice around.

Time

6:00pm UK time

Sunday evenings, a good moment to step away from the week and into creative practice.

Format

Live via Zoom

10 live sessions across training and Q&A design support, all online.

Investment

£400

Full access to all 10 sessions, the digital handbook, and group accountability.

Group Size

Limited to 15

Kept intentionally small so everyone gets real attention and the group stays alive.

What to Bring

A notebook

Pen and paper. Your curiosity. An openness to play, even on a screen.

After you sign up

You'll receive a confirmation email with all the details, and be added to a private WhatsApp group where the community begins before the training does.

reserve your place

You don't just want to run sessions.
You want to create experiences people remember.

After this course, you won't see games as separate "activities" anymore. You'll begin to see game design in movement, in conversation, in emotional learning, in group process, in attention, in life itself.

Become the Game Giver you were meant to be.

We'd love to hear from you

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