With Shane Strong
Making what’s influencing people, relationships & work easier to see.
Sometimes the things shaping what happens next aren’t the most obvious things in the room.
What’s At Play? creates experiential opportunities for people to slow down, get curious and make more of what’s influencing a situation visible.
Because when we can see more clearly, we have more choice about what we do next.
- Curiosity
- Awareness
- Choice
- Agency
What might be
at play here?
What’s At Play? is built around a deceptively simple question.
Rather than beginning with what’s wrong, who is to blame, or what someone should do, we begin with curiosity.
We use conversation, making, metaphor, reflection and experiential facilitation to explore what may be influencing how we see ourselves, relate to others and approach the situations we’re part of.
The aim isn’t to provide another answer.
It’s to make more available to notice.
Three ways to encounter the work
What’s At Play
Within Me?
Personal exploration
Explore the beliefs, assumptions, patterns, roles and stories that may be influencing how you’re showing up — and what choices might now be available.
Identity Transformation · Rebuild You · Individual facilitation
What’s At Play
Between Us?
Access a Thriving Team
Experiential group work that helps teams make perspectives, assumptions and ways of working easier to see and explore together.
Not another lecture about teamwork.
Something to encounter together.
Teams · Leadership groups · Organisations · Communities
Build
for Better
The human side of building
Construction is technical — and intensely human.
Build for Better brings the What’s At Play? enquiry into the relationships, expectations, communication and decisions that influence building projects and the people delivering them.
Builders · Trades · Project teams · Stakeholders
The approach
At the heart of What’s At Play? is a simple progression:
- Curiosity
- Awareness
- Choice
- Agency
We don’t diagnose people or prescribe who they should become.
We create experiences that help people notice more of what may already be influencing a situation — opening the possibility of a different view, conversation or choice.
Shane Strong
Founder & Facilitator
What’s At Play?
Shane’s work brings together an unusual mix of experience across making, construction, project leadership, experiential facilitation, behavioural exploration and identity work.
What connects them is a longstanding fascination with making difficult, complex or less-visible things easier to see and work with.
His practice draws from training and experience including LEGO® Serious Play®, NeuroChange Method, Identity Transformation, Parent Effectiveness Training, facilitation and decades spent building things — both with people and with his hands.
Different tools.
One recurring enquiry:
What might be at play here?
Curious?
What’s At Play? is currently being brought back into the world through individual experiences, team encounters and selected group work.
If something here has you curious — let’s have a conversation.