30. The Adventures in Risky Play with Author Rusty Keeler

This entire month we are enjoying our Author Series. In this episode, we are talking with Rusty Keeler, author of his newest book, The Adventures of Risky Play: What is Your Yes?

HERE'S WHAT TO EXPECT FROM THIS EPISODE:

1. What is Risky Play?
2. What do Adventure Playgrounds look like?
3. What about the parents?
4. Risk vs. Hazard
5. Risk and Developmental Ages and Stages

MEET RUSTY

Rusty Keeler is an artist and play designer living among the hills and woods outside Ithaca, NY. Rusty worked as a playground equipment designer for BigToys in Olympia, WA, and Speelhout in The Netherlands before starting his own business in 1996, Planet Earth Playscapes, designing natural landscapes for play. He is also the author of Natural Playscapes: Creating Outdoor Play Environments for the Soul. (Exchange Press: 2008) When not knee-deep in mud building playscapes, he can be found knee-deep in mud playing. Visit his website at www.earthplay.net. You will also find out more about Rusty on his speaker website: rustykeeler.com:

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