“The ability to play is critical not only to being happy, but also to sustaining social relationships and being a creative, innovative person.” - Dr. Stuart Brown MD

The Play mindset allows us to have an evolving mindset. Throughout these Play sessions we will explore what B4 The Other’s Pedagogy Of Play is, how it can open up the participants point of view of their lives, and the seen/unseen opportunities before them.  
 
B4 The Other's pedagogy of Play focuses on navigating the feelings inside the idea of Play. Exploring B4 The Other's six Buoys & Anchors: Effort, Vulnerability, Choice, Acceptance, Surrender, and Buoyancy. Each week we will investigate one of these six key Buoys & Anchors of Play to support your personal Play revolution. We do not see them as “pillars” because they are not immovable. We see these six buoys as points on a horizon. They offer us a foundational level of ease in every situation. The idea creates our reality, not the other way around.
 

POP Led By:
Christopher J Beaulieu (Co-Founder) is known as “The Game Changer” and “The Playmaker” across the globe. He is an educator and artist with over 25 years of experience facilitating Community Building and Play Exploration rural retreats, educational residencies, and now online workshops. Being one of the pioneers of facilitating Play work, he is certain that the level of effort, risk and communication we put into our lives is in direct correlation with what we get out of them.
Training: Shakespeare & Company, Dell Arte International, Society of American Fight Directors, Pilobolus, and Creatively Independent.
 
POP Led By:
Malia’Kekia Nicolini (Co-Founder) has been called a “Vibrational Activist” from how she holds space while facilitating. She is an internationally touring actress and teaching artist who has dedicated the last five years of her life to Play Exploration. Malia’Kekia’s belief in being at our most compelling when we are at our least composed, underpins her teachings within B4 The Other. She holds an InnerMBA from Mindful NYU having studied conscious leadership and mindful sustainability in business practices.
Training: Mindful NYU (InnerMBA), New World School of the Arts (BFA), Yale University (Science of Wellbeing), Power of Vulnerability (CE Credits), Mahi Yoga Centre (RYT 200HR), TedXBroadway Young Professionals, American Theater Wing’s SpringboardNYC, Attending the teachings of His Holiness The Dalai Lama at his home temple in Dharamshala, India (2018).