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So what’s so great about Silly Day? Silly Day is a day of outrageous creative expression – PLAY.
And what’s so great about play?
Play is critical in our lives. Play makes our minds flexible and adaptable to change. Play helps us remain creative. It also improves health and increases productivity.
It has been known for a long time now that young children learn at a much faster rate than adults do. Studies by psychology professor at U of California, Alacin Gopnick, on play are showing us that children learn so quickly because they play so much.
These studies show that there are two types of play. The first is exploratory. The second is pretend. It is very natural for children to explore. This type of play keeps us curious about the world, expanding our minds. The second type of play, pretend, helps us to consider other possibilities. This enables us to think outside the box and more easily solve problems. Play increases the ability of abstract thought. Businesses like Google are using play to increase their innovation. Play is a requirement for innovation. It is thought that when children pretend play, they are creating a sort of alternate universe for themselves. This type of thinking no doubt helped stimulate the creation invention of many of the things that we couldn’t see ourselves without today.
Dr. Stuart Brown is co-author of the new book, “Play — How it Shapes Our Brains, Opens the Imagination, and Shapes the Soul.” explains the science behind play: “The evidence is broad. It starts objectively by watching animals at play and seeing what it does for them — it improves their performance, immune system, their capacity to remember things. And if you follow that through to a human system, those same benefits appear to us — particularly in fertile imagination, in a sense of optimism, in capacity to persevere and to do things that you enjoy — are all by-products of play. And if you then hook someone up to a brain imaging machine you’ll find out that when they’re at play, the brain lights up more from that than virtually anything else they can do.”
Studies on Grizzly Bears show that the ones that play, survive the longest. Studies on rats show that those who socialize, develop bigger, more complex brains.More and more people are moving towards taking down the wall between work and play as science is showing us how helpful it is to bring play into the workplace to help increase performance.This is relatively new information. Most of us learned to “grow up”, and in many cases that meant that we stopped playing. Play became a bad word. And doing something just because it was fun, was no longer a good enough reason
This event called Silly Day on June 22 is an invitation to break out of the ordinary and become playful.
It is for people who love the fun of play and want to experience more joy in their lives. It is also for people who may have forgotten how to be with themselves and others interacting with their adventurous self. You will rediscover yourself on Silly Day. You will regain vitality and a zest for living fully. This will be a day of silliness that you will not forget! You will be forever changed!
In 1999 Richard participated in workshop on self-expression. There he rediscovered an aspect of my childhood that had been partially lost.
It was his sense of play. He did not realize that he had put his passion and playfulness on the shelf.
To rediscover these gifts of play and authentic expression, and close connection to people, was like having a “born-again” experience. What was lost, he had found. And he felt so Alive! To this day play and passion for expression, and connection, have been powerful themes for Richard. And now as a counselor and facilitator it is a great joy for him to help others rediscover and cultivate more play in their lives.
If you’d like to have more passion and playfulness in your life, book an appointment with Richard.
More info - www.blueskiescounselling.ca or check our Facebook Event
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