NooNa Center
Home of the ALP/Playground approach
About
ALP stands for Active Listening Playground.
The ALP/Playground is a real life approach that develops creativity, empathy and social connection within a group. The approach can be applied to any time-space-condition. Participants can be of any age and come from any background. A group might consist of just 2 people, or it might include 5000 people.
This real-time life approach is based on a series of simple exercises that create a safe environment where each participant finds space to discover and express an authentic voice while constructing personal and collective meaning. The ALP Approach is internationally spread and integrated into schools, academies, social organizations, communities and refugee camps around the world.
The ALP Approach training uses the ALP tools to teach playfulness (the social attribute of mindfulness) to local teams and help to spread the playfulness mindset to further associated larger community. The local teams are then empowered to develop and integrate both tools and concepts in order to build a strong and sustainable creative and supportive community.
PROGRAMS
We offer workshops, courses and events in various formats according to the needs and conditions of our clients. Companies and organizations invite us for ALP workshops and courses where we teach, perform and integrate the tools to connect employees, give departments the ability to work as a team, and produce a creative and attentive work environment. We know playfulness leads to higher productivity. We practice playfulness as a goal unto itself, not only as the means to an end. With ALP Approach the “music” comes back to every situation, and with the ALP Tools everyone is able to sustain it.
Creating Playgrounds within well established organizations and companies directly funds our work with Playgrounds in challenged communities of few resources, low-income schools and refugee camps around the world.
In 2019 The Active Listening Playground methodology was introduced to the workplace environment with ALP Workshops for corporates around the world.
Our latest program the Executive Playground offers everyone the opportunity to bring back playfulness and active listening into their organization while supporting communities in need around the world.