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March

Happy | Play & Create

“Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof. Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth. Clap along if you know what happiness is to you. Clap along if you feel like that's what you wanna do.”

-Pharrell Williams

Happy | Play & Create

How might you play and create this month to improve your health, relationships and overall happiness?

The month of Spring Break has arrived! Play and creation are just as important for you (an adult) and they are in the lives of our students. We can feel the rush and pressure of the end of the academic year coming as state assessments and more loom within sight. Taking a moment to play and create helps to create stronger connections, relationships and helps you to simply feel better.

Enjoy your break and be sure to spend intentional time doing what it is that you love. We hope you take a moment to utilize the resources we've curated for the month of March.

Strategies to Play and Create

Play is more than just funA pioneer in research on play, Dr. Stuart Brown says humor, games, roughhousing, flirtation and fantasy are more than just fun. Plenty of play in childhood makes for happy, smart adults -- and keeping it up can make us smarter at any age.

What’s Your Play Personality? — The 8 Play Personality TypesDo you remember that feeling as a child when you knew how to have fun?

Play Doesn't End With Childhood: Why Adults Need Recess TooPlay among children is vital for their social development. So what's in it for adults?

37 Fun Activities That Will Re-Introduce You to the Power of Play — Always Well WithinDo you play every day?  If not, consider the powerful boost play could give your emotional, mental, and physical well-being.  Most notably, play can: Relieve stress when endorphins, the body’s natural feel-good chemicals, are released. As an added bonus, endorphins can reduce pa

Strategies to Cultivate Courage

10 Ways You Show Courage Every DayRecognizing your bravery, no matter how insignificant the situation may seem to you, is empowering. It fuels your self-confidence and personal and professional power. And the continued dismissal of how you demonstrate courage, keeps you small. How do you show courage each day?

Creative Resilience: 5 strategies to help you thrive during times of transition - Creativity at WorkWhat is that quality of resilience that helps people bounce back from adversity and even excel? Resilience is a reflex, a way of facing and understanding the world, that is deeply etched into a person’s mind and soul. Resilient people and companies face reality with staunchness, make meaning of hardship…

How To Be More Creative: 10 Proven TechniquesYou can learn how to be more creative. Creativity is mostly skill, not just a gift, and this skill can be developed. Start with these 10 proven ways.

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