376: Serious Play and Playful Seriousness

Turning Towards Life - a Thirdspace podcast

The delicate balance between taking life seriously and maintaining a sense of playfulness. How earnest conviction and dedication help us take care of what matters - our responsibilities and the people who depend on us. And the life-giving and vital counterweight of lightheartedness: how a looser grip on life can free us to imagine, deepen our contact with others, and create new possibilities.
This week's Turning Towards Life is hosted, as always, by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.
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Turning Towards Life, a week-by-week conversation inviting us deeply into our lives, is a live 30 minute conversation hosted by Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn of Thirdspace. Find us on FaceBook to watch live and join in the lively conversation on this episode. You can find videos of every episode, and more about the project on the Turning Towards Life website, and you can also watch and listen on Instagram, YouTube, and as a podcast on Apple, Google, Amazon Music and Spotify.
Highlights of our conversation:

00.00 Introduction and Welcome
01.53 Play, by Vince Gowmon
05.49 The Role of Seriousness and Playfulness
11.46 The Transformative Power of Laughter
18.24 Play as a Bridge Between Seriousness and Lightness
25.33 Conscious Engagement with Play

Here’s our source for this week:
Play

Play isn’t something separate from the daily grind of life. It is not something to finally get to when work ends. Rather, play, like music, is a force that we feel in our bones and that whispers in our heart. As kids demonstrate, play is not over there, but forever here and now.
Vince Gowmon

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