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Imagination and Creativity & play

Below are the best resources we could find on Imagination and Creativity and play.

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The Art of Play: Ignite Your Imagination to Unlock Insight, Healing, and Joy

At forty-two, Joan Stanford―a busy mother, innkeeper―discovered, to her surprise and delight, a creative process for insight and healing that allowed even her, a self-proclaimed “non-artist,” to start making art.

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Tim Brown: Tales of Creativity and Play

At the 2008 Serious Play conference, designer Tim Brown talks about the powerful relationship between creative thinking and play—with many examples you can try at home (and one that maybe you shouldn’t).

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Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World

This lushly illustrated history of popular entertainment takes a long-zoom approach, contending that the pursuit of novelty and wonder is a powerful driver of world-shaping technological change.

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Darwin’s Regret

Darwin’s regret: Not enough poetry and music.

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The Importance of Play | John Cohn | TEDxDelft

Dr John Cohn is a self-confessed nerd. He already knew he wanted to be an engineer at the age of eight, found himself a nerdy college, a nerdy job and even a nerdy wife, or at least a fellow-engineer. As a nerd he breaks the mould though.

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How to Diversify Your Toy Box

Imagine how children’s views of themselves and others could change by having dolls of diverse races and ethnicities, not just white Barbies and G.I. Joes.

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The Theory of Creativity | Duncan Wardle | TEDxAUK

Duncan Wardle believes everyone is creative but that it's getting harder to convince people of that. On the TEDxAUK stage, he talks about the importance of creativity and why it will be the one core human element to compete in a world that is becoming automated faster than we can think.

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The Benefits of Play for Adults

Just because we’re adults, that doesn’t mean we have to make life all about work. Learn how play can benefit your relationships, job, and mood.

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Importance of Playtime for Adults | Jack Canfield

Scientific research shows that engaging in a recreational activity purely for the pleasure of it–whether it’s making art, playing games or sports, doing yoga or going for a walk in the woods–is essential for our mental and physical health and wellbeing.

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The Psychological Case for Adult Play Time

Coloring books and ball pits are much-needed therapy for the inner child in all of us.

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