The Play Rx Circle
A community of people coming together to practice the art of play and creative expression.
What is the Play Rx Circle?
The Play Rx Circle is a practice community for adults who understand the value of creativity and play, and want a place to actually live it in practice together.
Instead of an emphasis on producing a trendy product or learning fancy arts skills, the Play Rx Circle routinely participates in creative experimentation with other people in ways that develop playfulness, resiliency, and vitality.
It's time for a revolution:
Most adults spend their days:
- managing responsibilities
- optimizing productivity
- consuming meaningless entertainment to recover
Over time, this pattern erodes the sense of being fully alive. The result is knowing you want something more but not having 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 parts of yourself through
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 expectations and fear.
What do practices look like?
Players are given structured, creative prompts such as:
- sculpt with toothpaste
- write a bad poem
- throw an invisible ball between players
- scribble to music
- write meaningful, personal fairytales
- design your childhood dream room out of cardboard
- authentic relating games
Far from party games, these creative practices are designed to make your usual competencies irrelevant. When the task is challenging yet inherently ridiculous, it helps loosen the chokehold your inner critic has on your creative process.
Because you can't do these any Play Rx practices "right," you finally stop managing how you're being perceived and just respond. This is where the authentic, creative impulses live- in the flow state between just challenging enough while still being low stakes.
Many of our activities, despite sounding similar to the fun things you did in elementary school, are lightly informed by a rich history of existential psychology, IFS, Authentic Relating, drama/play therapy, and wisdom practices. We do not claim or advertise to be therapy, but desire to recognize the influence and philosophy of the work.
What emerges in this practice is the permission to be more honest with your buried creative and playful impulses.
This is for People Who:
- feel capable of more than their current life allows
- already value creativity, play, or the arts and want to engage them more directly
- struggle with play or creativity but are ready to take risks and find their personal edge for the sake of growth
- can take responsibility for their own experiences
- 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—this can accidentally lead to "gurufying" the facilitator
- aren't ready to actively participate—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
Why Play?
Learn more about the research on play, creativity, and adult behavior here.
How It Works:
Become a Founding Member
Founding Member Permanent Rate:
$100 per month
(Future rate: $135 per month)
What’s included:
- Ongoing access to all live Play Rx Circle sessions
- Participation in off-week challenges
- Access to shared resources, play labs, and recordings
- A chance to help shape the future of the Play Rx Circle
- Founding member rate locked in
- Member pricing for Play Rx workshops, retreats, and events
Founding Cohort:
- Closed cohort for the first three months
- Limited to 20 members
Deadline to apply:
April 4th, 2026
Meet Your Facilitator
Renee Bryant
- 12+ years teaching in arts, poetry, theater, and improv in a classical liberal arts and Socratic framework
- 3 years running adult creative play workshops online and in-person
- 8+ years of coaching experience
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