Play: A Vaccine for Our Spirits
This is an excerpt from my letter in the Global Play Brigade’s April 2021 Newsletter. The Global Play Brigade is a network of play activists who connect people across the world through free play and emotional support workshops online.
We’re at a difficult point on Planet Earth these days. The Covid-19 vaccine is becoming more and more accessible in the richer, western countries, even while more people are becoming infected with new strains of the virus. It’s a bleaker picture in poorer countries. From Brazil, where political corruption is breeding a health crisis that is a crime against humanity, to India, where shortages of the vaccine are shutting down health centers routinely. Nearly 130 countries with 2.5 billion people have not gained access to the vaccine at all. As of today, over 3 million people — that we know of — have died from Covid.
How do we stay sane, be healthy, be together during this frightening climate? This climate of uncertainty, loss, abandonment, and grief. How can we deal with this emotionally or spiritually? Is there a vaccine or medicine for our spirits? For our mental well being?
There is a medicine; it’s called Play. We played as kids, and we play in sports and other organized … CONTINUE TO NEWSLETTER
#PlayitForward #ChangeOurWorld
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Cathy Salit is a performance activist, social entrepreneur, executive coach, funny lady, and jazz singer. She used to be the CEO of the leadership consultancy Performance of a Lifetime. She wrote a book. She chats with interesting people. These days, she’s leading the Global Play Brigade — bringing play and emotional support to thousands across the planet, while maintaining a small coaching practice, speaking, and leading workshops. Cathy has two cats named Belle and Benny who like to walk across her laptop when she is doing brilliant and paradigm-shattering work.
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