the future of work is play
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A keynote presentation on the science behind play's benefits to the workplace.TRANSCRIPT
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Imagine a world without play
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Top three reasons we do not take play seriously
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A Baby Universe
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13.7 Billion years later
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Everyone Plays
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Time to study some rats
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Benefits of playfulness
• coping skills• divergent thinking• problem solving• physical activity• emotional regulation• Imagination• Longevity (10 years)
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The Super Food of behavior
• Cognitively• Emotionally• Physically• Socially• Culturally• Mentally• Spiritually
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Cognitivebenefits
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Reading the subtle nuances of relationship!
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Play...• Creates a sense of safety• Instigates “Approach behavior”• Normalizes risk• Delights in uncertainty
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I’ve totally got this under control
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Surprise!!!
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Nothing enhances our well-being more than marinating in joy sauce.
• Every organ benefits from it (expect maybe hair)
• People who are play-deprived have a life expectancy 5-10 years lower than people who play
• Play deprivation is a greater risk factor than smoking & obesity
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Laughter
• 100 – 200 laughs a day are equivalent to 10 of minutes jogging.
• It deepens
breathing, improves circulation and releases natural painkillers in the body.
• Children laugh an
average of 400 times/day. Adults laugh about 17 times/day.
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And that is not funny
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Stress relief
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Creates social bonds• Self-handicapping• Sensitive
attunement• Cooperation• Morality
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Genuine, pure play is one of the main bases of civilization.
– Johan Huizinga
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Intellectual Benefits
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Play is the highest form of research. - Albert Einstein
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It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative…and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self. –D.W. Winnicott
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“The truly great advances of this generationWill be made By those who Can make outrageous connections, and only a mind which knows how to play can do that.
–Nagle Jackson
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The retention of juvenile characteristics into
adulthood
Neoteny:
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So what happened?
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Interpersonal Neurobiology
Differentiation and Linkage
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Developmental Perspective
• Complexity science: Sensitive dependence on initial conditions
• Neuroscience: the experience-dependent brain
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Attachment Theory
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Attuned Play
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Engagement as Play
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Internal Working Models
• World as Playground• World as Proving ground• World as War Zone
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World as Playground
• Image of Child at adventure playground?
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World as Proving Ground
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World as War Zone
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Internal Working Memes
Playground
Proving Ground
War Zone
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An Insecure Society
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Playfulness
• Physical Spontaneity
• Social spontaneity
• Cognitive spontaneity
• Manifest joy• Sense of humor
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Spontaneity
In spontaneity, personal freedom is released, and the total person, physically, intellectually, and intuitively, is awakened…Every part of the person functions together as a working unity, one small organic whole within the larger organic whole for the agreed environment. - Viola Spolin
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Playfulness isour original design and our evolutionary potential
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Evolving through Play
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• Image of polar bear and husky
Play literally becomes a functional therapeutic model that exercises the neural regulation of the face, creating a sense of safety, playfulness, and joy!
-Steven Porges
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”Play is the exultation of the possible.” – Martin Buber