This is our presentation for The Embodiment Conference 2020
1000+ presenters, more 500,000 participants. An event of epic proportion bringing embodiment practitioners together from all over the world.

In this workshop we'll see how many creative ways there are to get the body involved, engaged and moving with the help of one spherical object.

Anthony has developed 8 unique mini-sequences, such as: "The three pendulums harmonise", "The lazy bear get up at dawn", "The fool embraces the mountain", each offering different movement and throwing and catching possibilities.

The atmosphere created is encouraging, playful and fun. Especially helpful tools for anyone working with youths and also adults as they often "need a reason" to move and this playful approach can help them step out of their often awkward self consciousness into an appreciation and love of movement.

Following up with an invitation to spontaneously play and dance with the material that emerges. The object becomes an extension of ourselves. So make a little space, come along with a ball, piece of fruit or even a potato! Also possible to just enjoy moving with an imaginary object too.

There is more to this workshop and it is this: as teachers we can always choose a more engaging and fun route. We are surrounded with a mountain of seriousness (and have to dos) that ultimately inhibit our learning process. Takeaways: we learn through mistakes.
*Get over the fear of failure today! Make failure fun, celebrate it!
*There is always another level of engagement that doesn't necessarily have to be more difficult.
*Give value to playfulness and individual expression, stepping out of the mentality that if it isn't difficult is isn't worth anything.
*Learn to move like water as the object shows us how to move more fluidly and organically.

First Step:​ A Playful Life is About Observing and Really Interacting with What is Around Us Now – Just for the Joy of It.-Small children and cats show us playfulness. They are connecting to what they are doing for their energy and that already moves us in this delightful way. They teach us foremost through their being.-We often do things with a goal or because we do know they're good for us. We don't do so many things just because it feels good. So this is a big shift: doing things that feel good. And this doesn't mean don't do things that don't feelgood. It means perhaps there's another way of doing this that can increase my interest in what I'm doing. The opposite of playfulness is depression ​ – ​not work. Do you play in your life? What game are you playing?

Innovation:​​ Playfulness Inspires Imaginative Thinking, Creativity and Connection. -We are taught that there's only one answer. Which means that everything else is wrong. This gets us out of imaginative thinking. But if we don't even start a process, then we won't discover anything new.-When we get more into play, we can transmit things to others much better: content, ideas, thoughts that go further.

Embodiment:​​With Playing And Juggling, We Learn To Embody Qualities We Need in Life.
Serenity:​ There is something very playful about throwing and catching a ball or juggling. If the ball falls down, pick it up and we don't care. This is a powerful lesson. Playfulness is actually the cure for perfectionism: I try and do something with my best intention. And then I just let it go.

-Presence:​ With juggling, after throwing a ball I need to forget it for a while to be able to throw the other one. I have to ‘let go of’ to be totally here. Otherwise, I'm still with this one and partially with the other hand. Then it's not working.

-Freedom:​ When we get playful, we let go of the need to be acknowledged: We don’t do it for acknowledgement.

Resources❖Book: ​pearls of juggling​​ (inspiration and skills for authentic expression through juggling)
❖Courses: ​4-week Online Journey into Playfulness​ (tuition according to your financial circumstances)
❖Website:​​ www.playfulife.org​​
Podcast: The ​PlayfuLife Podcast
❖Social:​ youtube: ​playfuLife
❖References:​ Sir Ken Robinson, Bernie De Koven, Alan Watt