The Play Rx Circle
An arena to practice the art of play and creative expression.
What is the Play Rx Circle?
The Play Rx Circle is a practice arena for adults who understand the value of creativity and play, and need a place to practice together.
Instead of producing some trendy product or learning fancy arts skills, the Play Rx Circle routinely participates in creative experimentation with other people in ways that develop playfulness, agency, resiliency, and vitality.
It's time for a revolution:
Most adults spend their days:
- managing responsibilities
- optimizing productivity
- consuming meaningless entertainment and pleasures to recover
Over time, this pattern erodes the sense of being fully alive. It's like you want something more but don't have a clear or practical way to access it.
This is where a play
practice
comes in. A play practice, like a dojo or a martial arts class, is intended to weave into your life and provide the opportunity to learn how to connect to the missing creative parts of yourself through repetitive
action.
The Play Rx Circle offers a structured space where adults routinely engage in creative play with others and reconnect with the parts of themselves that have been buried under years of societal structures and fear.
What do live practices look like?
Creative play prompts called Playscriptions might include:
- practice "first thought best thought" warm ups
- scribble to music for mind/body connection
- write personally meaningful fairytales
- co-create absurd inventions with other members
- imaginal play
- Socratic seminars on beautiful works of art
- discussions on poetry + lighthearted poetry writing
- Authentic Relating games
- "trying on" the posture of wonder while looking at nature
- creating collaborative songs using "no skills required" technology
FAR from party games or arbitrary corporate ice breakers, Playscriptions are designed to get your inner critic out of the driver's seat so the deep well of creativity and honesty can flow through you.
As joyful and fun as some of the games can be- they are designed to bypass the negative blocks that hold us back by practicing courage and agency in a constrained, low-risk environment.
Many Circle meetings go deep - a large part of what we do is engaging in the real, vulnerable, and authetic feelings that lie behind our masks to create from truthful expression.
What emerges in this practice is the permission to be more honest with your buried creative and playful impulses.
This is for People Who:
- have done personal work like therapy, journaling, meditation, etc. and are ready to get out of over-intellectualizing and put into practice what they've learned
- already value creativity, play, or the arts and are hungry to engage them directly
- struggle with play or creativity but are ready to take risks and find their personal edge for the sake of personal growth
- can take responsibility for their own experiences
- feel capable and ready for more than their current life allows
- have a growth mindset
Not for People Who:
- need consistent external validation to feel safe engaging—this space asks you to practice trusting your own experience
- expect the facilitator to manage their emotional experience (or protect them from negative experiences)—this can accidentally lead to "gurufying" the facilitator
- aren't ready to actively participate on camera—this community is built around participation
- are looking for certainty or a guaranteed outcome rather than open-ended experimentation
- are currently in crisis and need clinical mental health support
How It Works:
Meet Your Playscriptor
Renee Bryant
- 12+ years as a Socratic teacher in visual arts, poetry, theater, and improv
- 13+ years of curriculum and program writing
- 3 years running adult creative play workshops online and in-person
- 10+ years of coaching experience
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