“…A literature review of playwork-related textbooks and training resources was undertaken on how the six components of the Play Cycle were explained. Nineteen sources were consulted, including separate papers by the original authors both before and after the ‘Colorado Paper’, training programmes, for example, Stobart (1998), playwork books supporting NVQ, for example, Farrow et al (2003), books supporting playwork practice such as Kamen (2005), books on play, for example, Else (2009, 2014); and Howard and McInness (2013), Kilvington and Wood’s (2010) book on ‘Reflective Playwork Practice’ and Conn’s (2016) textbook on ‘Play and Autism’. These texts contained 12 different explanations of the meta-lude, 16 for the play cue, 13 for the play return, 15 for the play frame, 15 for loop and flow and 10 for annihilation.…”