Bhaskar Thyagarajan
Pioneering game-based learning for transformative behavioral skill development across ages.
Bhaskar is the Founder & CEO of BlueSky Learning & KAIROS. BlueSky Learning is an 18-year-old consulting & training company with a vision of helping individuals, teams, and organizations nurture and develop their human skills. Anchored in the experiential learning methodology. KAIROS is a one-of-a-kind platform offering a suite of digital and in-person multiplayer learning games for the global L&D community
He is a facilitator, international speaker and mentor who has shifted focus to building institutional capability in game-based learning to alleviate the persistent disengagement in learning.
Bhaskar has been designing game-based learning with a focus on behavioural skills for 2 decades with 30+ unique workshop designs, 75+ games and has rich experience of working with professionals across 30+ countries. Bhaskar has trained over 400+ facilitators in facilitating experiential & game-based workshops.
Beyond the Game: A Ready-to-Use Model to Master the Art of Facilitation
With cohort-based learning coming back with a bang and a concurrent drop in attention spans, game-based learning has the potential to solve for engagement and impact.
This interactive and lively session, anchored in game-play, offers a deep dive into a ready-to-use construct that will help facilitators design and deliver game-led ILT sessions with impact.
From dissecting learning themes to create game choices to post-session action plans, the model is a full circle from learning objectives to actionable outcomes, all anchored in game-play.
A special focus will be on how digital games offer data-based facilitation opportunities to create buy-in and remove bias from facilitation.
Whether you are a seasoned trainer or new to game-based learning, this session goes beyond simply running games to help you master the craft of facilitation to create engagement, connection, and insight. And did we mention the fun we’ll have playing some awesome games while we are at it?
Key Skills that you will learn:
- Choosing/designing the right game to match your learning outcome
- Foster meaningful reflections that connect game outcomes to real-world insights
- Adapt facilitation techniques to engage diverse audiences and handle unexpected challenges
- Data-based facilitation in digital game-based learning
