Play 101 Nelson

Play – at least the kind that builds brains, forwards development, and serves our emotions – is becoming an endangered activity among those who need to engage in it most and this includes us as adults.

The science of play reveals the mind of Nature and gets to the very heart of the developmental approach. This course serves as a prerequisite to several more advanced courses with play as the focus. ( Play and Attachment / Play and Emotion)

Why a course on play? How possibly could this be relevant to the challenges being faced by today's parents, teachers and therapists?

The course will answer that question and more, hopefully opening up an exciting new universe of understanding for participants.

Play is in fact one of the newest subjects of scientific inquiry - so broad in its scope that several different academic disciplines are involved, including neuroscience.

As a result…