A Weekend of Play

FRED DONALDSON & ORIGINAL PLAY®
Seattle, WA

Our 2010 Playshop is over.
Fred may return to offer playshops in the Pacific Northwest in January, 2011. Please return to this site in the future, or contact Kri Schlafer for more information.

happy kid with the sun

Come Play!
Does your heart know that something is missing in your daily life? That sense of joyfulness, safety and connection that you sometimes felt as a child?

Original Play offers a way to find that again so that you can restore it to your life! Learn how our culture teaches us to compete from birth onward, how to recognize when you go into competition, and then how you can choose kindness, safety and belonging. Fred's stories and life experiences (worth the price of the playshop itself) will illuminate the process of Original Play. Then, with our minds at ease, he will take us to that place of safety where we all remember how to play.

Play connects us through love, kindness and belonging, and offers us all a simple alternative to winning/losing and competition. Applicable for teachers, therapists, parents, families...all human beings.

PLAYshop
3-Day Schedule

Presentation & Introduction - Friday, January 15th, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Get a sense of the transformative power of play which Fred has re-discovered through years of interactions with his many teachers: children, wolves, dolphins, etc. For adults and families (children 5-12 are welcome free of charge on Sunday). Fred is a wonderful storyteller.

PLAYshop - Saturday, January 16th, 9:30 am to 4:30 pm

PLAYshop & REVIEW - Sunday, January 17th, 1pm to 3pm
Children 5-12 are welcome free of charge on Sun


Information and Registration:        registration form
Email: Sonia Story
PLAYshop Registration       

$185 Adults (before 12/15/09)
$225 (after 12/15/09)
 

$100 Teens (13-19 years)

Location:

Seattle location to be announced.

  • Dress comfortably.
  • Bring a lunch.
  • Bring your loved ones.
  • Children five and older welcome with adult Sunday afternoon, no charge

If you haven't yet met Fred, you are in for a treat.
O. Fred Donaldson, Ph.D.
has been studying the deep patterns of play for 30 years and has been a pioneer in the use of play as an alternative to competition, abuse, and aggression. Fred is an Aikidoist, author and education consultant who is recognized internationally for his on-going research and play with children, adults, at-risk youth, and wild animals. He is featured in The Power of Play video from Animal Planet and The Intelligence of Play video from Touch The Future.

For more information about original play visit:

www.originalplay.com    ||    www.TTFuture.com

www.playafterplay.com    ||    www.originalplay.eu


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