PlayGrounding
What happens when the way you play becomes the way you live and work? Each week, you'll hear interviews with courageous people who've let play inspire their daily lives - their relationships, hobbies, spirituality and even their career paths. Adulting doesn't have to be boring, but you have to be ready to step off of the beaten path.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 43 minutes
- Episodes
- 70
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2021
Exercise to Heal, Not Hurt, with Nia Instructor Jenn Hicks
Exercise is an important part of a healthy life, but how we do it is important. Jenn Hicks has been teaching Nia through a body/fat positivity and Health At Every Size lens ever since recovering from…
Screen-Free Week! A Conversation with Jean Rogers, Director of the Children’s Screen Time Action Network
Screen Free Week, May 3-9, 2021, is the Children's Screen Time Action Network’s annual celebration of unplugging, reconnection, and joy. They’re celebrating differently this year because screens have…
Psychologically Safe Workplaces
How can we play like children, but as adults? And how could it transform the workplace if we learn to develop deeper, adult ways of playing as we got older instead of putting it away? And most import…
Playful Humans: Rethinking Social Media
Mike Montague, founder of Playful Humans Clubhouse and host of the Playful Humans Podcast, discusses one of the most difficult issues facing us humans these days – what to do about social media. We t…
So, Tell Me How You Really Feel - Unraveling Spiritual Jargon
Alessandra Calderin has a very no-nonsense approach to health and spirituality that I really appreciate. Conversations about spirituality can take on characteristics similar to a religion with its ow…
The Joy of Dementia (You’ve Got To Be Kidding!)
Dementia is seen as one of the most horrible things that can happen to a person – a “loss of self” or “living death.” Susan Massad and Mary Fridley are part of a coalition working to challenge that w…
Religious Trauma Syndrome, Healing Spiritual Wounds
Spirituality and religion are linked to positive physical and mental health outcomes, but at times, unhealthy teachings can cause more problems than they solve. On this episode, Gary Ware interviews …
Work and Play Should Coexist: Transform Your Workplace
Rona Lewis, Founder and CEO of Playful Minds Project, explains her work with businesses to improve mental health in the workplace. Rona doesn’t believe in work/life balance. Work is part of life! So …
Play to Live: A Mental Health Story of Panic to Playfulness
If you’ve ever believed you couldn’t share your own story or let your voice be heard until you “fix” yourself, then you need to hear what Jessica has to say. Jessica Brustad, Co-Founder of Playful Mi…
Playful Minds Project: Welcome to Play-Care
Meet the co-founders of the recently launched Playful Mind Project, play experts Jessica Brustad and Rona Lewis. The focus of their launch is on one of the hardest hit demographics during the Covid-1…
Say Yes To Yourself w/International Improv Innovator, Charly Ford
This week you’re going to meet Charlette (Charly) Ford, a seasoned entertainer, executive producer and curator of the You’s A Fool Improv and Variety Show in Atlanta, GA. Charly is an Improv Acting C…
Play: Our Instinctive Therapist and Portal to the Soul w/Vince Gowmon
Play can be an empowering spiritual experience, regardless of what you practice, or what religious or spiritual subculture you belong to. And no one has been better, over the years, at helping us und…
Discover the Playground of Possibilities w/Kay Ross
Kay Ross believes that life is an improvisation game and a playground of possibilities. She is an improv performer and an Applied Improvisation trainer; a bodyworker/healer; the Head Tour Guide in Th…
Foster Creativity and Play for a Brighter Future
Have you ever heard the quote, “Be the person you needed when you were younger.” This quote by Ayesha Siddiqi is embodied in the work of Rita Ezenwa-Okoro. Rita lives in Lagos, Nigeria and is the Fou…
You're Not Broken: Overcoming Play Deprivation w/Gary Ware
Gary Ware is concerned about your plan to work an all-nighter to finish that project. You might want to listen to his advice, because he's been where you are. Gary is the founder of Breakthrough Play…
Being + Becoming: It's Time to Ditch the Script
None of the problems our world is facing right now can be solved if we can’t find new ways to talk to each other. Right now, consensus seems like a far off dream and we find ourselves asking, are we …
Someone is Waiting for YOU to Show Up, w/Jeff Harry
Was 2020 supposed to be “your year”? Of course, sometimes things don’t go the way we want them to, but Jeff Harry has a message for you. Play is a superpower that helps you become more resilient not …
How to Plan a Play Day in Your Community
Pat Rumbaugh, founder of Let’s Play America, returns for another conversation on PlayGrouding! Let’s Play America has a new e-book called The Play Day Handbook, which is an amazing, step-by-step guid…
Who Gives You Permission to Play?
According to Andrew Walsh’s daughter, he is “A librarian who teaches grown-ups how to play”, which is far more important than any “real” job description. He is founding editor of the Journal of Play …
Dream the Culture Forward w/Artist Scott Froschauer
Scott Froschauer is an artist known by many for his public art installations of street signs. They look just like the street signs you pass by every day, but the messages they convey are not what you…