Live Action Learning is a method that is used worldwide. Imagination and experience are the key words of this method. Imagination motivates you, gives you clarity, and helps you gain control over your behaviour. With Live Action Learning, you gain insight into yourself and all the different versions of yourself. It is learning by stepping into someone else’s shoes. Another person, another world, or another story.

Immersive, embodied, embedded

Live Action Learning is immersive: You immerse yourself in another reality. This works because it is embodied and embedded: Embodied and embedded in the environment. You engage with your whole being. Your body is the basis of what you perceive, how you act and what you feel. By involving your physical self, you learn things that go beyond conscious explanation. This approach is derived from Live Action Roleplay (larp); where participants temporarily step into another character’s role, experiencing the world from a new perspective.

Research

Extensive research is being conducted worldwide on this unique form of learning. We contribute to this field through our own studies and collaborate with various individuals and institutions, from the U.S. to Hungary. We organize conferences and attend the most immersive events to further develop the method. See below for our list of projects and publications.

Publications

Scientific research on various leadership interventions, including our own Live Action Leadership Training.

The result of years of collaboration with the University of Twente and Prof. Klaasjan Visscher, to use imagination and improvisational theater as a teaching method in higher education.

Our book on applied improvisation. On how to apply improvisation in organizations.

The thesis that started it all.

 

Article about “bleed”, learning from playing a character.

 

Projects

Organiser, Edu-larp Conference
Annual conference in Scandinavia on the educational aspects of LARP, with participants from around the world.

Expert, Larpocracy
Large European project with three universities and four civil society organisations to promote democracy through LARP and embodied imagination. Funded by the EU: Horizon Europe.

Designer, The Lifetimer
Multi-year project developing ethics education through LARP and imagination, in collaboration with Saxion University of Applied Sciences.

Initiator of leadership research
Independent research by the University of Southern Maine and Prof. Joe Lasley on the impact of the “Live Action Leadership” training.

  • An enriching experience. Taking a deep dive into another part of your character is so much more educational. It provides more space to practice and internalize. The carefully selected and well-designed setting, the attentiveness of the guidance, and the support from colleagues in the training all contribute to a positive anchoring of what you learn.

    Martijn Braber, Director Saxion Part-time School

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    An enriching experience. Taking a deep dive into another part of your character is so much more educational. It provides more space to practice and internalize. The carefully selected and well-designed setting, the attentiveness of the guidance, and the support from colleagues in the training all contribute to a positive anchoring of what you learn.

    Martijn Braber, Director Saxion Part-time School