A Night and Day of DeepFUN, (October 15,16)

At the Wainwright House in Rye, New York

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Learn how you can bring fun back into a world that has become too serious for play.

Play "Pointless Games" - games that are slightly physical, but clearly, innocently pointless, played without score or any goal other than sharing fun - games you might call "touching games" because they all involve some kind of (safe, gentle, non-threatening) physical touching, and because they are basically loving kinds of games, emotionally touching, as well.

Between games, talk about the "fun" of it all: what was fun, when, what it was like when it was really fun. Listen to readings about the "Inner Playground" where characters like Silly and Serious engage each other in some relatively profound variations of Hide and Seek and Tag. Learn how to bring the inner dialogue into play, while the games help bring the inner to the outer. In this way you establish a reflective practice - each game leading us deeper into our selves and towards each other.

Explore fun in every aspect of your life: society, body, mind, spirit.

You will be playing, reflecting, meditating, and playing some more.

Fun is inherently difficult to take seriously, which is why we will be relying so heavily on the community we create. We will be playing separately, in pairs, in teams, in a group. The games we will be playing will help us create community and serve as frames for exploring the spirit of play. Many of the games are physical, but not particularly strenuous. No running or jumping. No contests or tests of endurance. Almost all the games involve some sort of creativity, though none require any degree of artistry.

Participants who are most ready to receive this experience will have found a new synergy between body and spirit. By becoming more aware of the "functions of fun" in their lives, you will be able to bring depth and breadth to your life and to the lives of all those with whom you are in contact. Games will take on a new light, spiritual practices a new lightheartedness. The knowledge gained from this course can be put into practice every time you find an opportunity to play, and can help you find more opportunities.

Wear your "play clothes."

People with physical limitations are free to play or not to play according to the dictates of body and spirit.

The session begins Friday evening at 7:30. Saturday's session is from 10-4. Fee for the workshop is $130 if you register before June 13, $155 after. Saturday lunch is included. Lodging at the Wainwright House is $50 for the night.

For more information, please email your questions to Major FUN at this address

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When the fun gets deep enough...	Bernie DeKoven, FUNcoach	... it can heal the world.