Organize your team and facility

Team: ensure you have a minimum of two facilitators to run your Playground for Entrepreneurs sessions. You can always have more and take turns to run multiple sessions of the game.

Venue: make sure you are able to physically run sessions and programs in person. This means getting permission to use a suitable space for the sessions, possibly a communal room or another space where you can sit together without being interrupted to play the boardgame.

Get community support

Identify some promotors and ambassadors who can promote your workshops and programs and help you inform people about this opportunity.

Start gathering the local aspring entrepreneurs and small business owners who will benefit from playing the game with your facilitation. Consider partnering wtih high schools or municipality programs who facilitate entrepreneurship programs, and let them know about the opportunity to take part in this immersive workshop with your faciliation.

Planning

Plan your ambitions with the game and support programs with the entrepreneurs. According to your ambitions, time and resource availability, set up a quick plan that you’ll develop in more detail during and after the facilitators training. Set goals around the frequency, intensity, duration of the program, number of participants, etc. This can happen at the same time as you're starting to identify potential entepreneurs who you'll invite to take part in the sesions you'll run!

You'll find a template for your plan for the program in the resources; start working on the first version of your plan and you'll be able to adjust and refine during the training.

Facilitator training

Take the facilitators training. It is important to attend all live calls and to be actively involved in the exercises, as well as doing the homework and exercises presented. It is necessary to both get a good feel of modern entrepreneurship methods as well as facilitation and group coaching using the game itself. Adjust your plan, incorporating what you learned in the training.

Organize playing sessions, workshops and programs. Making sure you have a continuous flow of participants.

Close your program with a fun entrepreneurship-community event! You can use this opportunity to either:

1. Showcase your successes over the duration of the program. Give the entrepreneurs the opportunity to speak for themselves, show off their products and results, and boost their visibility with this event. Make sure the event and the audience is as relevant as possible for them; invite possible partners, customers, etc.
2. Promote the program with the entrepreneurs in it as a work-in-process. Invite the community to come and take a look, to get involved.

At this stage you can build out partnerships with schools and municipalities in the context of entrepreneurship education (schools) and economic development (municipalities).