An experimental practice space for adults to play.

We live in a culture that keeps us miserable and suspended between overproduction and overconsumption.


Play Rx is the structured practice space for adults to liberate themselves out of limiting structures and into inspired, creative, and playful states of being.

Where's the right place to start???

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A live journey to practice playing with your imagination.

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Aw dang you missed it, the next one is the first Saturday of the month!

Nov 7: Rainy Inn



THE PROBLEM?


We live in a world that's eliminated play from adult life.

For the last two centuries, institutional schooling trained us to sit still, follow instructions, and become reliable workers.


Play—the fundamental human attitude needed for creative engagement—is treated as something to outgrow in adulthood. We were sold the lie that entertainment is the socially "cool" alternative to healthy play (because corporations make a lot of money off that lie).

As we get busy with our adult lives, instead of engaging in healthy play, we scroll, watch TV, and wait to consume the next sedative to help soothe the troubles of the modern world.


The psychological cost of this is devastating-play deprivation correlates with increased anxiety, depression, rigidity and a general loss of what makes us feel agentic and alive. 

Many practices don't address ACTION

Therapy  helps you understand yourself.

Mindfulness  helps you observe yourself.

Art classes ask you to skillfully produce.


These are all good things- but there's a missing element and it's a place to put into action what you are learning through play and experimentation. Low enough risk to feel safe while high enough risk to feel like you are learning and expanding through challenge.

Creative play practices DO

Play practices affords:

  • expressing oneself with attuned skill
  • create without the stress of producing or performing
  • strengthen one's mysterious and creative imagination
  • gaining an embodied sense of agency in world that wants you complacent
  • "trying on" new modes of being


Play Rx is not about entertaining you to make you forget your troubles, it is a prescription for awakening your inspired creativity and alive agency.

Adults Who Love It

This was a lightening bolt for me. I felt like a kid again but had the adult tools/experience to layer over the more inner child narrative/archetypes. It also made me feel powerful.

Jan

"I have never been so satisfied with a service provider. I recommend whole-heartedly. "

Aaron Booker

A moment of pure creativity just for myself and without caring for other's opinions (which I have almost never) and an exploration of my own, inner self

Anonymous

"I was having a rough day and been struggling showing up authentically. This definitely helped. I was so happy to stumble upon Play Rx. Renee made it so easy to join and it helped turn my mood around."

Roy

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Imagination Break

A live 120-minute guided imagination experience on the first Saturday of every month. I take you through a 35 minute guided imagination narration, integration art practice, and sharing session. Come with a journal and some art supplies. 

$30.

→ Tickets

The Play Rx Circle

An ongoing arena of adults who show up 2x a month to play, create, and practice together. Live sessions every second and fourth Saturday. Free access to Imagination Breaks and discounts on courses. Currently on a rolling waitlist and often taking in new applicants.

→ Get on the Waitlist

Team Workshops

I work with companies, institutions, non-profits, start-ups, and government teams that are on a mission to improve their relationship to play, creativity, and mental resiliency in an age of burn out and brainrot.


→ Schedule a Consultation Call

HOW WAS PLAY RX BORN?

Over the twelve years I taught visual arts, theater, and poetry, students were becoming more anxious, rigid, and resistant to experimentation. They cared more about how well they would perform and the end result than they did about learning how to problem solve or how to try. Students were spending WAY too much time on technology at home or inversely were overscheduled with too many activities - both were leading to severe play deprivation across the generation because you can't play if you don't have time to be bored.


The same exact phenomena was happening to myself and adults around me for the exact same reasons- too much working and too much screentime and consumption to recooperate.


So I became obsessed with researching ways to liberate from the stagnated matrix of our culture- first for myself, then for my students, then for adults.


My work is heavily influenced by existential and depth psychology, drama/play therapy, IFS, Authentic Relating, and wisdom practices. I do not claim or advertise to be therapy, but desire to recognize the influence and philosophy of the work. I deeply believe that for structures and systems to change, we must start at an ontological level- we must start by liberating ourselves first.


-Renee