S4 E8 | Play for our Shared Humanity with Jeff Harry
We are starting 2021 with more tensions than ever. What is it going to take to bring us together from all across the different spectrums? Could play be the answer? In this episode I speak with Jeff Harry, positive psychology coach, speaker, workshop facilitator and my favorite person to collaborate with on TikTok! We discuss the choice between understanding and being right and the power of play to heal our divisions. We talk about what Jeff has learned about how play can change the world through everything from consulting for companies like Google and Facebook to being a black man.
In this episode we talk about:
- Why the lack of shared humanity has contributed to the divisions we see in our world today
- How play can help us to see each other’s shared humanity
- What you need to do before engaging with someone who shares different beliefs than you.
- Examples of how play has healed relationships and divisions in our world
*Content Warning: This episode contains a slur word that refers to black people that is shared in the context of a story from Jeff’s past (46:50 – 47:15).
Mentioned in this episode and resources from today’s episode
- Jeff Harry’s website: Rediscover Your Play
- Jeff’s Instagram
- The Cure for Stupidity by Eric Bailey
- Fundamental attribution error
- The Recess Life S3E7 – S3E8: Play as a Bridge Builder with Alison Calhoun
- Daryl Davis: the black musician who converts Ku Klux Klan members (The Guardian)
- The Oz Principle by Craig Hickman and Tom Smith
- Rival Chicago Gangs Join Forces to Build Playground for Children (Ebony)
- Gwen Gordon
- Free Range Kids
- Dr. Stuart Brown | National Institute of Play
- 148,000 No’s
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