ALL WORK AND NO PLAY CAN BE BAD FOR BUSINESS
(A workshop or keynote address)

USING PLAY TO THINK "OUTSIDE THE BOX"
(A workshop or breakout session)

PLAYING WITH CHANGE IN THE WORKPLACE
(A workshop or breakout session)

ARE YOU HAVING FUN YET?
(A keynote address)

TRAIN THE TRAINER THROUGH PLAY
(A workshop)

CREATING AND MAINTAINING YOUR PERSONAL ENERGY
(A workshop or breakout session)

PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE BY LOOKING BACK TO THE PAST
(A keynote presentation)

"WHEN'S RECESS?"
(A keynote, a workshop, or a breakout session)

This interactive seminar explores why the concept of recess was so important to us as children and why it's still so very much needed in the workplace. The curriculum includes:

1. Why a sense of joy seems to be absent in many parts of our society.

2. Having a more balanced approach to one's day and one's work.

3. A new and more exciting definition of "creativity."

4. Why being in touch with your inner child is so valuable.

5. Guided meditation back to our childhood and the way we played when we were kids.

6. RECESS--a series of interactive, cooperative games that unleash waves of energy, laughter, and self-esteem, build trust, teach support, encourage risk-taking, provide acknowledgement and validation, reveal commonalities, and spark creativity.

7. Discussion of the games, the ways individuals participated in the activities, and how one can change their style, communication, and attitude to be more effective in their lives.

8. Specific strategies to deal with ongoing stress in one's career.

9. Reorganizing your work space to create more joy in your environment.

10. Employing these methods in your home life--better relations with your mate, your children, the family, and the neighbors.

11. A series of empowering messages to remind you to take recess every day.

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ALL WORK AND NO PLAY CAN BE BAD FOR BUSINESS
(A workshop or keynote address)

"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" - it can also make Jill a dull girl. This famous "all work and no play" admonition has been around for longer than you may think. This seminar explores why this sort of attitude is especially bad for the success of business entertprises. Issues covered:

• Why grown-ups look forward to Halloween so much.
• A test to determine whether you're really a fun person!
• How "play" helps us to be more creative on the job.
• A guided meditation back to our childhood as we see ourselves at play.
• A series of interactive games that will delight the participants, make them laugh, put them in touch with their sense of joy, and show them how issues of trust, risk-taking, validation, self-confidence, self-esteem, creativity, connection, and commitment, often happen during moments of "recess."
• A discussion of the activities-and how it can make the participants more effective managers and better employees and the organization more productive.

Few people on their death beds declare: "I should have spent more time in the office!" This program helps individuals to see what they can do in life and on the job so that they are more in balance and much happier when they go to work each day.

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USING PLAY TO THINK "OUTSIDE THE BOX"
(A workshop or breakout session)

A January 1999 article in a special business career section of the Los Angeles Times entitled, "To Think Outside Box, Get Into Sandbox", suggests that employees have to learn how to "make work into child's play" if they wish to be more creative and innovative in their careers.

There's a great deal of research to back up this theory. Psychologist Donald MacKinnon at the University of California/Berkeley did a body of study on the subject of creativity. His findings-creativity is not a talent; it is a way of operating-a mode of behavior. He described the particular facility as "an ability to play" and concluded that the most creative people are "child-like", for they are able to play with ideas and to explore them.

Children, who possess what social philosopher Arthur Koestler called, "innocence of perception" have an innate ability to see the extraordinary in the ordinary. Their imagination is uncorrupted by outside constraints. In play, they bring passionate attention to activities.

During this fun, educational, and empowering program, Dr. Play will help you determine how in touch you are with your child-like qualities, and how you than can enhance them.

The program offers interactive discussion, revealing quizzes, guided meditations, and dynamic experiential play exercises that will aid you in thinking "outside the box", opening your eyes to a new creative world.

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PLAYING WITH CHANGE IN THE WORKPLACE
(A workshop or breakout session)

Many people fear change. It is disruptive to our sense of harmony. But it is a fact of life, and it has become a significant issue in the workplace. The Information Revolution, along with instant communication modes, have sped up the market place and created ever changing, ever evolving business practices. Managers are supposed to be able to flow with this new system. Some people have the temperament to do just that-but many don't, and is causing a great deal of stress.

The fact is we are all different. Every one of us have our own ways of looking at and acting on things. Some of this is a result of the messages we got from our families, our teachers, and our friends, while we were growing up. But much has to do with the kinds of temperaments we were actually born with.

Psychologist Carl Jung in the 1920's realized that people are different in fundamental ways even though they all have the same multitude of instincts to drive them from within. While one instinct is no more important than another, what is important is our preference for how we function. Our preference for a given "function" is characteristic, and so we may be "typed" by this preference. Thus Jung invented the "psychological types."

Many psychologists and educators have continued to study these different character types throughout the years. In their book, Please Understand Me: Character And Temperament Types, authors and psychologists David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates write extensively about the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Test, a tool for identifying sixteen different patterns of action, and how well individuals do in certain situations.

In a fun, educational, and empowering seminar, Dr. Play will help you determine what your temperament is when it comes to "change," and what you can do about it if it's causing stress.

This program involves interactive discussion, a revealing quiz, guided meditations, and dynamic "experiential play" exercises that will aid you in coping with change in a new way--allowing you to be more in the flow of things.

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ARE YOU HAVING FUN YET?
(A keynote address)

Do you ever have the feeling you and your employees are working harder than ever before but enjoying it less? Well Dr. Play says, "You need some FUN" and presents a unique interactive seminar that explores why "having fun" was so important to us as children and why it's still so very much needed in the workplace. Along the way the participants very possibly will get to have more fun than they can stand. People have been known to complain that their face hurts from all the smiling and laughing.

This program is particularly effective as a keynote address. It is guaranteed to lower the audience's stress level, connect them with themselves and the others in the room, help them to look at their job in a more creative way, and show them how to bring more FUN into their life, their career, and their relationships.

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TRAIN THE TRAINER THROUGH PLAY
(A workshop)

There is no question that every trainer has to bring the utmost passion to his or her programs. It sets up a situation where people learn faster and more effectively. Unfortunately some educators have been teaching the same sort of material for so long that they have allowed their excitement for their courses to wane, and it is beginning to show.

Also it is a known fact that people learn better when they're enjoying what they're learning. If you survey both adults and children about their favorite teachers, they will always say the ones they liked most made the learning exciting and/or entertaining.

This program gives trainers a chance to see how they can enhance what they are teaching by incorporating more fun into their classes. Among the topics:

• How "cooperative play" not only creates fun, but also allows trainers in an organization to feel more connected to their leaders, their students and to themselves.
• The significance of play in the creative process.
• How learning was most effective when we were kids.
• Just how "neotenous" are you?
• Why "recess" was such an important part of our day.
• A series of interactive games that will spark creativity, create good will, encourage risk-taking, build trust and communication and enhance commitment to one's career.
• Group discussion about the games and the way individuals showed up for the activities.
• Guided meditation back to your classroom when you were a youngster.
• What's your classroom style as a trainer?
• Using the games to connect with your students.
• Other strategies to better "play" with your responsibilities, handle stressful times, and to be more in balance with yourselves and your students.

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CREATING AND MAINTAINING YOUR PERSONAL ENERGY
(A workshop or breakout session)

There is an "inner child" lurking within our souls and it holds the power to maintain or sap our personal energy. This seminar shows us how to recognize when the inner child is talking to us and what we can do to accommodate this important part of who we are. Along the way you will be introduced to a 30-year study that proves we're not as creative as we used to be and that it's hurting our opportunities to succeed. Research is presented on a new definition of "creativity" and how it's linked to "thinking like a kid."

Dr. Play will facilitate a series of games and activities to show individuals what they can do when they have little or no energy, and provide the following aids to turn to once they return to their workplace:

• Dr. Play's "Healthful Hints"-a handout of good stress reduction tips.
• Toys in the Office, an after seminar assignment that will deliver positive results.
• "Internal Jogging" for fun and profit.
• 10 little known Websites for Instant Rejuvenation.
• That one special childhood activity guaranteed to perk up any stressed grownup.

This is a "playshop" or a breakout session you and your employees don't want to miss!

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PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE BY LOOKING BACK TO THE PAST
(A keynote presentation)

"Play Expert" HOWARD PAPUSH says that workplace issues in the future will challenge us like never before. New demands on employees time--the information explosion, new technology that blurs the line between work and home, and the emerging virtual office phenomenon--will raise stress levels to dangerous highs unless we develop comforting strategies to cope with all of this.

This fun interactive seminar will show you how to use the concept of play to be more in touch with your aliveness, your creativity, your ingenuity, and one of your most powerful inner resources to better prepare to meet the working needs of the 21st Century.