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🔊 The Experimental Mindset with Sarah Filman
“The experimental mindset is where you are committed to trying things in your real life, and you are doing some with an orientation to being intentional, playful, and extracting the learning out of the process.“
If You Ask Betty is a podcast about all kinds of development topics for all kinds of learning professionals. Check out ‘8 The Experimental Mindset with Sarah Filman’ for how we can move towards fulfillment, balance, and our fullest potential by adopting an experimental mindset.
🔊 Life is Improv! The Spectrum of Work and Play
“As a leader, rather than trying to control the outcome, try to instead put the right trellis in place, and say ‘here’s your structure’ so your team can blossom.”
Uncover the Human is a podcast for people that want to get the most out of being human. It delivers conversations with people-centric experts to explore the hidden sides of humanity and unlock our full potential. Check out ‘Life is Improv! The Spectrum of Work and Play’ for how we can playfully practice showing up as our authentic selves in life and leadership.
🔊 Episode 51: The Power of Play with Sarah Filman
“Is the way that you have been showing up—how is that serving you? If it’s serving you in all the ways you want…great! If actually, it feels like it’s holding you back in certain ways, what would it be like to change that?”
The BLOC (Building Learning and Organizational Culture) Podcast is a learning and development podcast where Heidi Kirby talks to professionals in the field who are passionate about finding creative, innovative ways to bring learning front and center at their organizations and beyond. Check out ‘The Power of Play with Sarah Filman’ for how improv and play can support the development of creative, collaborative, and conscious teams and leaders.
🔊 Episode 22: Playful Facilitation with Sarah Filman
“Learning abounds if we just pay attention to it.”
The Share Whatcha Learned Podcast is a podcast for learning professionals to share something their learning in the field of instructional design. Check out ‘Episode 22: Playful Facilitation with Sarah Filman’ to hear strategies and mindsets for infusing play into facilitated experiences.
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✍️ Topknot: Play in the Life
“Play is about exploration, curiosity, and experimentation. Play doesn’t have to imply feeling happy or being surrounded by others with their heads tilted back in unbridled laughter. The stock photo of play is very one-dimensional (technically, two-dimensional, but definitely not three).”
Play isn’t just for kids or a different way to say “fun”. Play is a way of exploring and being creative with whatever’s present. As such, it’s a powerful tool in making the ughs of life easier to swallow, sometimes literally. Read Play in the Life on the Topknot blog for an up-close-and-personal look at how play can show up in tough times.
✍️ Team Joy: The joy of big feelings
“It's incredible how a mindset shift or newly embraced identity can transform the quality of your life without actually taking any concrete action. It's seeing the same world through a new lens.”
Isabel Scher’s Team Joy community has a weekly newsletter for anyone who is curiously and imperfectly trying to cultivate a joyful life. Read The joy of big feelings for reflections on how to hold a sense of compassion, play, and creativity while navigating the (overwhelming) world as a highly sensitive person.
✍️ Topknot: Playing with possibilities
“I love to be smacked with awe and wonder of all the things in the world there are to learn about and how much we don’t know. Movement helps me quiet the overthinking and lets me tap into how I’m really feeling. Playing lets in lightness, laughter, and a spirit of experimentation.”
Topknot is a personal development club that gives you the space and support to make progress on your own terms. Check out the Playing with possibilities blogpost, which explores the emotional journey of recalibrating an internal compass when it has spent years oriented towards other people’s needs.
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