WRITING
NEW BOOK OUT NOW!
The Paidia Principle
The well-played path to bold leadership, balance, and agency
Together with dr. Imara Felkers I wrote “The Paidia Principle”. The book presents play as a powerful way of working, thinking, and leading. In a world focused on control and certainty, the book offers an alternative: a well played path toward agency, balance, and confident decision making.
Through play, readers learn how to work with what drives them, challenges them, and sets them apart, turning this into a source of direction and strength. Rather than avoiding uncertainty, the book shows how to engage with it, opening space for new choices and ways of acting.
Bringing together insights from philosophy, game design, and educational practice, “The Paidia Principle” offers clear principles, game mechanics, and practical exercises for creative and professional contexts. Written for educators, designers, and creative professionals, it provides a grounded approach to navigating complexity and taking ownership in a changing world.
Purchase the book here: BIS Publishers
Inner Play in a Study Narrative
In 2018 I received a Comenius Teaching Fellow grant that allowed me to further develop a teaching innovation. Finally, there is now the cahier 'Inner Play in a Study Narrative', a digital and a printed (Dutch only) cahier written for students and teachers, but of course also for anyone who wants to professionalize in any area. The cahier describes a method by which students, with the help of game principles and philosophy, can take more ownership of their studies and is based on Johan Huizinga's basic vision that we are playing people, Homo Ludens, and that play can come closer to reality than the supposed reality itself.
