Teamplay Workshop brings award-winning games to you, ready to play in minutes. The fun starts when your master game facilitator invites you to the table to teach you how to play. You skip the rulebook and quickly immerse in the fun of the game. Most games take about 15 to 60 minutes to play.
Our award winning games come from the world’s best game designers and create game experiences that are fun and beneficial to seniors and business teams.
A Teamplay Workshop experience is more than playing games. There are significant research-proven benefits to wellbeing, relationships, team effectiveness and more that come from award-winning game design and having a master game facilitator at the table.
Teamplay Workshop has a curated library of hundreds of games, customized for each group and ready to play. Games create fun, and fun is a pathway to growth, wellbeing, and social connection. Research shows playing board games improves memory, wellbeing, and creates social connections. Those are great reasons to play!
The research for business teams is clear. Games invite curiosity, new ways of interacting, and create powerful shared experiences. When teams have “Fun With Purpose”, they develop stronger relationships and better ways of working.
That’s what Teamplay Workshop is. Better social connections and wellbeing for all, and professional development for teams, all while having fun together.
What Is “Teamplay Workshop”?
About Mike Southwell
I am the founder of Teamplay Workshop. For more than 30 years I’ve guided business teams through transformational change in industries like social services, manufacturing, banking, software, telecommunications, and healthcare.
My search for powerful learning tools began in 1985. Over decades of consulting, I honed my craft of facilitating meaningful learning experiences grounded in research and valued by the people and teams I served. Again and again, I discovered games were amazing tools for learning, connection, and growth.
Games are the core of Teamplay Workshop. Games create unique moments where people connect, think differently, and solve problems together. Games challenge us, engage us, and bring out our best - helping us strengthen communication, trust, collaboration, and relationships, while enhancing wellbeing.
Research increasingly confirms what I observe in practice: play is powerful. Studies show games help people build relationships, collaborate together, and improve overall wellbeing. These benefits support older adults, where games can support cognitive wellbeing and social connection. The same mechanisms positively impact teams looking to improve their effectiveness.
I became a certified experiential educator in 1985, and have been designing immersive learning experiences for business teams since then. I hold a Master of Science in Training from Leicester University and numerous certifications in leadership development, coaching, education, and change management.
Teamplay Workshop integrates decades of consulting expertise, recent research, and award-winning games to deliver the transformative power of play to you, by creating engaging game experiences that are truly Fun With Purpose.
You can learn more about me on my LinkedIn personal profile: www.linkedin.com/in/teamplay-workshop-mike-southwell