What is Fair Play?
A system that sets families, partners or couples up for success in their relationships and parenting. It’s about finding sustainable balance in your life.
The Fair Play system borrows from proven organizational management principles, that optimize efficiency and focuses on saving time, improving outcomes and reducing stress and anxiety for everyone.
It was created by Eve Rodsky, following the question “What would happen if we treated our homes as our most important organizations?”
What’s in it for you?
Who would you hire?
Raise awareness and reduce unconscious bias
Equality at work starts with equity at home.
- Reduce burnout and voluntary attrition.
- Attract and retain top talent.
- Improved end-to-end people experience.
- Culture of inclusion, recognition, and well-being.
- Create stronger brand lift through internal trust and transparency.
- Be recognized as a great place to work and a pioneer in caregiver’s health.
How does it work?
The system is built on the tenets of a healthy organization:
- 100 cards (i.e. tasks) for most households;
- Makes the invisible, visible;
- Establishes FULL Ownership and defines minimum standards.
- A gamified life-management system that helps partners rebalance their domestic workload and reimagine their relationship.
- Reframe the conversation around the value of unpaid labour and care.
- Revisit your values – what is important to you, and how you express those values.
- Define what is needed to run your home, parenting, and family and create a deck of cards – each card represents a task or activity.
- Define for each card what it takes it terms of Conception, Planning and Execution (CPE).
- Define for each card a Minimum Standard of Care (MSC).
- Deal the cards – not all cards are created equal. The goal is equity, not 50/50.
- Re-deal the cards regularly.
- Enjoy free time, free mental space and flourish as a person, a couple and a family!
What can I help you with?
- Understand the messages we've internalized that cause one gender to take on most of the unpaid labour and caregiving responsibilities and the other gender to be almost excluded from the experience of parenting and homemaking.
- Free yourself from unhelpful societal messages and inherited cultural stereotypes that prevent you from being your true self.
- Reframe your boundaries to give yourself permission to be unavailable and to find your voice.
- Reframe your boundaries to give yourself permission to assert your legitimacy and right to occupy the space you crave – be it at the office or at home.
- Reduce your own mental load by "redealing" how work, domestic and caregiving tasks and responsibilities are managed.
- Support you through the onboarding, implementation, and ongoing practice of the Fair Play system.
- Reduce burnout by creating more equity in your home.
Transfer the skills to your workplace
- Developing an ownership and accountability mindset
- Communicating your needs and establishing boundaries
- Ease the mental load and improve focus
- Reduce burnout by achieving more balance
- Master the Conception, Planning and Execution framework and apply it to your project management
Teach your employees the Fair Play Method to meet gender equity initiatives, curb burnout, address stress and overwhelm through communication strategies, boundaries, and structured decision making. These skills are transferable and applicable in both work and personal life.
Have a question or need clarification? For all enquiries contact me: alexandra@mind-tree-coaching.lu
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