in preparation

Play Matters Academy

Workshops for young people (18–26) on education, communication and connection — learned through play.

The plan, at a glance

Who for

young people 18–26

When

schedule to be announced

Where

Zbor Hub Cluj (partner)

Cost

to be announced

What the workshops will look like

Every workshop starts at a game table and lands on a skill: listening to understand rather than to reply; giving feedback that doesn’t wound; learning from a lost round. Communication — including nonviolent communication as a practice — is exercised by playing, not by sitting through lectures: you try, you fail, you laugh, you go again.

How a workshop is meant to run: a game on the table, a skill on the way out.

What you leave with

Exercises you can rerun with your own people, a new way of reading what happens at a table — and people. Academy evenings are designed to build a group, not just a calendar.

Funded through a confirmed allocation from Cluj County Council: 4,000 lei, decision HCJ 92/2026 (adopted 18 June 2026).

Want a seat in the first series?

Write to us email route — the address is announced at launch

Related: the community’s events · the “Why play matters” pillar