Play is something that brings our creativity into the moment.

Moment by moment.

The science says that it's hard to stay under the full weight of heavy worries, when we are in a state of playfulness - even just a tiny bit. The practice of Play helps us to strengthen our creativity, imaginations, resilience, flexibility, exuberance, self-trust, our connectedness with others, and our capacity to tolerate, and play with, three main instabilities of life: Change, Being matter in the form of a human, and Intimacy.

Developmental Transformations is a Dramatherapy approach, that anyone can practice to support social-emotional resilience. It involves an agreement between Players, to enter into a playful state, where anything is possible, and anything can be represented in the play. It's like re-finding the childlike quality of joyful make-believe, in a time when we probably need real awe and delight, more than ever before. 

It was founded in the USA, but has travelled all over the world, to delight and confound rigid minds! It is used to treat a wide range of human struggles, to ease suffering and bring belly laughter to things that had felt mostly stuck and hopeless. We learn to 'play with' the stuff, and this creates some distance from it. Play offers us some relief, and sometimes creates the opportunity to transform out-of-date ways of 'performing ourselves'. 

Personal and professional development:

Playfulness can be helpful for 'helpers', to reduce the chances of Burning-out. 

Helpers can also train in Play-facilitation skills, to use with the people they support, it just depends on where they are based and if there are opportunities near-by. 

There are open groups in Brighton, Bristol, Buxton, London, Halifax, Manchester, Nottingham.  

Please register your interest by clicking here and upcoming dates of events can be shared with you. 

Dates to play locally:

Buxton - 

Nottingham - 

Manchester - 

Dates for helping professionals: 

Bristol - 16th May