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
The Global Play Brigade
Meet Cathy Salit and Fernanda Liberali, founders of The Global Play Brigade, a volunteer community of play and performance activists, improvisers, clowns, musicians, educators and therapists who have…
A Difficult Ritual - "Heavenly Brown Body"
"Heavenly Brown Body" is Leslie's most recent installation, based on a haunting poem by the late Mark Aguhar called "Litanies to My Heavenly Brown Body." His work is challenging and for some of us, m…
Game On...line!
Mary Catanzaro, Founder of POGO Events in New York City, left her career in the corporate world to bring people together for scavenger hunts and game nights throughout the city. Hear how she built he…
Living With Death
Death has been heavy on our minds during the Coronavirus pandemic. Most of us don't like to think about it, but this conversation with interfaith Death Midwife Rev. Maggie Burbank Yunoki is a great w…
Where Can Courage Take Us?
The whole world is going through a trauma right now. And your part is no smaller than anyone else's. It's vital right now to find the courage to face our emotions and find ways to enjoy life. Even if…
Play Therapy: Rediscover Yourself
Therapists often tell us how important it is to play and enjoy life. But what about playing IN therapy? Apparently, that’s actually a thing. Jamie Lynne McCoppin is a Drama Therapist who can help you…
Slack or Snap? It's Up to You
The very idea that play is important is a hard sell - especially for stressed-out grownups with responsibilities and long to-do lists. But if we don’t cut ourselves some slack, we’re setting ourselve…
Everyday Adventures: Learning to Love the Unknown
When I’m burned out, the last word I want to hear is adventure. But thanks to Stacey Newman Weldon of Adventure Wednesdays, I learned that adventures don’t have to be over-complicated vacations. Adve…
Surprised By Joy
In a mental health crisis, play is a vitally important part of our healing process. So why can it be so hard to give ourselves permission actually do it? Join Kara for an exploration of the things th…
Six Steps Toward Building Your Play Practice
In this episode, I (Kara Fortier, you know, the host) will talk about how I finally became an adult who plays. A playful mindset came so easily to us as children, but we adults build up lots of roadb…
Can I Play? The State of PE and Play in America's Schools
With all of this talk about kids and play, it's about time we hear from an educator here on the PlayGrounding Podcast. Doug Smith has been a physical education teacher for nineteen years. In this epi…
No Excuses: Choosing Health & Playing for Your Life
This is a deeply personal episode for me, Kara, the host of PlayGrounding. This is the second part of my conversation with Sabrina Must. Last week, we explored the role of playfulness in facing and h…
Play in the Depths: A Playful Heart Meets Grief
It might seem counterintuitive to have a conversation about play and grief. We often associate play with frivolity, silliness and escape. But what we learn from this conversation with Sabrina Must is…
Playful Problem Solving - The Power of Puzzles
Puzzles are powerful. Have you ever had a hard time putting worries aside - blocking out your to-do list and experiencing a moment of real focus in a no-stakes, playful situation? Try a puzzle. I’m n…
The Trickster Consciousness in a Polarized World with Shepherd Siegel
Dada, the Beats and the Hippies - what do they all have in common? The way they played was a problem for the authorities, for the people in power trying to instill black and white order on the world.…
Playing to Win at Any Age
Some people train for a sport from the time they’re very young and become elite. Some people don’t even begin to get active until much later in life but become high level competitors. This week’s gue…
Is the Lack of Free Play Endangering our Democracy?
Free play, also known as child-directed play, is becoming more and more restricted for American kids. We’ve talked on PlayGrounding many times about the importance of free play, how it’s where many c…
Dealing with Shame on the Road Back to Exercise & Play with JJ Kovacevich
Do you remember what it was like to be a child at the playground? When you first arrive and see the equipment, the sand, the grass? I remember that feeling well – the desire to jump, crawl, run, do s…
Can Fitness Really be Fun?
Fitness fun? For most of my life, I would have answered NO WAY to that question. It’s the one challenge I’ve had to my belief that whatever is true about play for children is also true for adults. Ch…
Innovation Requires Play w/Tricia Edwards of the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center
Did you ever stop to think that you have what it takes to be an inventor? If you’re a human being, you are by your very nature an innate problem solver and creative thinker. The question is, are you …