How to Play Like Kids, for Adults

**Not kink-related play**

Play is essential for kids. They use play to process their emotions, understand what’s going on, improv different scenarios and solutions, practice next steps, and be brave--all things that would be beneficial for adults as well.

Play is also in our DNA. In hunter gatherer times, social life was infused with play, with highly cooperative games, dances and playful myths integrated into everyday life. Overall, play promoted fairness and sharing, and was a key part of creating an egalitarian society, which anthropologists believe helped us continue to grow and evolve as a species.

In this class, we will play, discuss the history of humans' relationship with play and its continuing importance today for people of all ages, as well as provide suggestions on learning to play again, including letting our kids teach us what comes naturally to them.

Bios

Rachael Rifkin is a writer and community organizer whose work focuses on connecting through storytelling. She has written for Good Housekeeping, Elle, The Progressive, National Geographic, and more. She also once posed as eight of her relatives in order to highlight the things we all have in common with the people who came before us, and is an expert high fiver!

Kyle Humfeld grew up playing board, card, role playing, computer, and word games with his family, pretended to be a vampire in a LARP period during and after college, and has been a part of as many as three concurrent Dungeons and Dragons campaigns. He spends his time now programming computers, teaching martial arts, and, you guessed it, playing games with his friends and family.

Tickets

Suggested donation: $15-$25

You can sign up for the workshop here: tinyurl.com/3tnakmpa