Are you familiar with the concept of serious play? Today, we're shifting gears and moving into another element of transformation. We will be introducing the idea of serious play, which has become a hallmark of Ray's approach to his work. Listen in today, to find out how serious play relates to transformation.

There's a lot of depth to the characteristics and key principles of the story of serious play. In today's episode, we unpack this concept and we look at the way that it relates to transformation. Today, Ray also explains how he came up with the idea of serious play, and how he started to bring this whole concept together. Tune in now, to find out how creative energy fuels transformation.

Show Highlights:

• The story of serious play is Ray's philosophy of work.
• Ray explains how he started to bring the concept of serious play together.
• Ray explains what caused him to became disillusioned, as a student teacher, when he was working with gifted kids.
• Ray and his friend, Gary, concluded, after two years of conversation, that the majority of the teachers were not expressing who they were, in and through what they were doing.
• Ray talks about the course that he and his friend developed, called The Development of the Creative Teaching Personality.
• Most people don't understand that teaching is a creative kind of endeavor.
• Ray shares the questions that he would always ask his students at the beginning of his course, and what he would tell them after hearing their response.
• Ray explains why he postulates that the most creative person in our society is the four-year-old.
• School provides children with very little opportunity to use their imagination.
• Ray explains what he spoke about in his course, which was designed to help people discover their own creativity.
• What Ray's students would discover about the creative process, in his course.
• Where the whole idea of serious play emerged.
• Serious players know that they are creative.
• Ray discusses the key class-session that he taught in his course.
• Ray talks about what he discovered about the connection between tapping into the imagination and creativity, and between serious play and authenticity.
• The creative energy that comes out of serious players is what fuels transformation.

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