Return To Play: Rebuilding Resilience, Risk and Reconnection - Hardcover

Heather, Brandi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1777352711 ISBN 13: 9781777352714

Publisher: Made2play Inc., 2021

Synopsis

We are biologically driven to play, yet with the best of intentions, we've made life more structured, scheduled and supervised - and something has changed.

We have become less comfortable with uncertainty and the unexpected, less willing to take risks, less able to stay steady under pressure.

We changed how we grow, and it is starting to show.

Brandi Heather blends research with lived experience to show how perfectionism and our drive for predictability are quietly reshaping how we create, connect and respond to change.

And how to return to play.

"Play is a willingness to not win and still be ok with the journey" Seth Godin, personal communication with the author

"If we rehabilitate play, we might simultaneously resurrect our ability to get along and trust each other. Daniel Pink, New York Times Best-Selling Author, in correspondence with the author.

About this title

About the Author

Brandi Heather is an award-winning Disability and Inclusion Educator and Therapeutic Play Specialist with over 25 years of experience. Brandi began her career as a college and university professor in Kinesiology and Sport Studies specializing in Adapted Physical Education over 25 years ago. She achieved certification in Play Therapy and Advanced Play Therapy and uses those unique skills as her foundational tool kit for change. She founded AMPED2PLAY INC. in 2017 and serves as its Chief Knowledge Officer creating products and professional services including The Original and Seniors ISOLOVEPLAY Box, Braving Connection, Engaging Inclusion Policy2People and SenseABLE Service Certifications and Training. Brandi has built multiple community movement and play programs for children living with disabilities and their families. She has taught 1000's of adult students and teachers how to build more inclusive teaching, coaching and instructional spaces, starting first by reigniting play as a tool for innovation and inclusion. Her work advocates for a change in how we see and value all people, including ourselves as both stronger and more creative than we believe. She utilizes the power of play to navigate diversity, inclusion, change management, self-care, and mental and physical health. She reveals how play is the catalyst to igniting and developing innovation and productivity and the foundation of moving from diversity to belonging.

Edition details

• Publisher: Made2play Inc.
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1777352711
• ISBN 13: 9781777352714
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 148