Today's blog is basically a correction. I changed my mind about something. Luckily, when you're playful that's something that you stay...

Here are two people who approach their work/art playfully and inspire me in doing so.

I recently ran a workshop for some aspiring theatre-makers, using improv exercises and games to help them explore playfulness as part of...

This week, some useful insight from one of the Godfathers of Play, Stuart Brown. Dr Brown is the founder of The National Institute for...

In previous blogs we defined games as taking the scenic route, and we explored how artists take us with them on scenic routes in order to...

In the spirit of 'pretty much everything is a game', let's look at something we all do every day. Speak!

We're living in an age of wellness, which should be a good thing. It’s undoubtedly a good thing that conversations around mental health...

We talked in the last blog about the barriers to play. Some were circumstantial, others were demons that we need to slay within...

We've explored what play and playfulness are over the last ten blogs.

Last week we explored the concept of Productive Playfulness, and how being in a playful mindset can actually help you thrive in group...

Acronym fans will have to wait until the next blog, but Venn fans, your time has come:  How is Productive Playfulness different to...

I’m not giving up on this ‘scenic route’ tangent. As explored in the previous blog, when we play a game we essentially ‘take the scenic...

This week is a tangent, and by the end you’ll forgive me.

Okay, I’ve managed to avoid writing about playfulness for 6 weeks now, but it’s time to put my pen where my mouth is. It’s meant to be...

This week we’re talking games!

It’s a new week, and a new question to guide us on our journey towards being Playful Adult Humans. We’ve explored what ‘play’ is, and...

Here we go. Part Three. Just to bring you up to speed: We were all born players, play is an innate function of human life, and the...

Picking up from last week's blog... If you were to plot 'play' on a spectrum, what would be at the other end? Importantly, the line does...

Adult humans are prone to forgetting one strange but important truth: they were once babies.

When the annual workplace skills report comes out each year, ‘playfulness’ doesn’t get a look in.   Maybe that’s right. We’re living in...