Speaking, Keynotes & Training

Bring Lisa Forbes to your conference, university, organization, or professional association.

I offer keynotes, professional trainings, and faculty development that invite people to think differently about play, connection, learning, culture, and the conditions that help humans come alive.

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Keynotes

Big ideas that travel across audiences

Play and the Heart’s Refusal to Harden
Play as resistance to hardening under adulthood, grief, responsibility, and cultural pressure.

Playful Rebellion / Staying Human in Rigid Systems
Curiosity, experimentation, and small acts of play that loosen unnecessary rigidity.

Play, Belonging & Human Connection
How play changes relational climates and opens room for courage, authenticity, and possibility.

Professional Trainings

For therapists & clinical communities

Narrative Child-Centered Play Therapy
Play as embodied storytelling and how stories unfold, shift, and expand through play.

Child-Centered Play Therapy
Philosophy, stance, therapeutic presence, process, and the language of play.

Play Therapy Supervision & Clinical Topics
Training for clinicians and supervisors seeking greater depth and confidence in the playroom.

Faculty Development

For colleges, universities & educators

Playful Pedagogy
Play as a stance and philosophy for rehumanizing learning.

Belonging & Engagement
Designing conditions for connection, curiosity, risk-taking, and participation.

Play-Centered Teaching
Moving beyond activities toward learning climates that are cultivated rather than controlled.

Why this work is different

I don’t just give people activities.

My work focuses on the deeper conditions underneath learning, healing, creativity, belonging, and change. The goal is not to make rigid systems slightly more fun. It is to help people reconsider what becomes possible when curiosity, humanity, experimentation, and play are genuinely allowed back in.

Evidence of the work

See previous keynotes, trainings & presentations.

My previous work includes keynotes, professional trainings, webinars, conference presentations, faculty development, and clinical education.

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