Examples of Two Original Play programs:
How To Play With
Difficult People
This program focuses on enhancing individual and
community relationships. This skill-based program provides a powerful model of
moving beyond self-defense with kindness, clarity and courage.
Original Play demonstrates how to better invest your energy in
improving relationships, decreasing stress and enhancing productivity instead of
exhausting your resources in self-defense.
The skills learned from Original Play are applicable to relationships
with your family, your neighbors and the business world.
In this program participants actively progress through a
series of interactive exercises to reconnect with behaviors that promote safety, trust and
belonging. Participants identify
the differences between responding to others with kindness, clarity and safety
instead of reacting with frustration, aggression and other unproductive
behaviors. Practicing this skill is
not a better survival strategy; it is a better way of living.
Life
Transitions: Playing With Change, Surprise, and Conflict
Share the vision, experience the sense of belonging and develop the
skills of playing by heart.
This program offers a compelling blend of provocative ideas, practical
alternatives, and experiential activities for students and professionals to transform patterns of interaction from fear,
aggression, and violence to kindness, connection and safety.
Difficult situations often arise in everyday life. These may include
divorce, a life threatening illness, family stress, separation, alienation,
isolation and job loss. In such situations contesting with others seems to
be our only choice. But contest limits both our options and possibilities and is
detrimental to our health, well-being and the safety of others.
Imagine a world of no blame, no fault, no revenge and no contest. Original
play is such a world, a life-affirming alternative to the constant struggle with
life. Original play creates new and practical possibilities for connection
and relationships unavailable to us when we fight with the world.
Original play offers each of us a way to be empowered without diminishing others
and a sense of belonging that is a tangible affirmation of a safer and connected world.