Play On!
Every day, seriously every day we monitor scholarly articles, the internet, and the popular press on the importance of play and playfulness for adults. As part of that process we try to rise above the vitriol on the internet and in conversation these days. As others hunker down for Armageddon we focus on improving wellbeing… Continue reading Can We Get A Hallelujah For The Humorists?
Play Is the Highest Form of Research - Albert Einstein? Neville V. Scarfe? Anonymous What does it mean to you to be playful? In general, what is your definition of play and playfulness? We posed these questions to over 2,000 survey respondents. Over two years of controlled qualitative thematic analysis was spent on 800 answers.… Continue reading Time to share! Despite ourselves LOL!
It's not like a saloon, it's more like a club for men and women...who don't drink for the sake of drinking but for the company. Burgess Meredith It takes time to build community. Flexibility and kindness allow people to comfortably enter and leave at will -- kind of like how we are free to choose… Continue reading Pubs hold the treasures of community & play
Our power as individuals is multiplied when we gather together as families, groups, and communities with common goals. The I Ching Play and the Practice of Playfulness are good for us as individuals and helpful in building Community. Community as we fondly refer to it with a small ‘c’ is made up of smaller close… Continue reading Playfulness & Community
“Play is also a way to be close and, even more important, a way to reconnect after the closeness has been severed. . . . the second purpose of play serves our incredible - almost bottomless - need for attachment and affection and closeness.” ― Lawrence J. Cohen Credit: Article Farnam Street Blog / Photo… Continue reading Playfulness and Connection
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