Healing Game

06/07/2026

Hra jako způsob napojení se na naše děti, jako prostředek k proniknutí do dětské mysli i dětských trápení.

04/02/2026

Srdečně zvu na svůj víkendový workshop Original Play, který plánuji na 14. a 15. března 2026 v Praze.

Tyto dva dny se budeme věnovat moudrosti spontánní dětské hry a také tomu, jak se jí můžeme jako dospělí otevřít. Budeme si povídat o benefitech spontánní hry pro rozvoj dětí i její přínos ve vztazích mezi dětmi a dospělými. Budeme společně zakoušet pocit z hravé interakce v jednoduchých cvičeních a budeme tříbit naše vnímání, abychom podstatu hraní při práci s dětmi rozpoznali. Budeme si zkoušet techniky, které nám mohou pomoci se hraní s dětmi nebát, nevyhýbat se mu a přijímat se zvědavostí pozvání do dětské hry.

Workshop je určený všem, kteří mají kolem sebe děti, ať to jsou učitelé, průvodci, asistenti, rodiče, prarodiče, sourozenci nebo tety a strýčkové.

Praktické informace:
termín a místo konání: 14. - 15. 3. 2026 | 10:00 - 16:30 | Praha
cena: 3.000 Kč při registraci do 28. 2., poté 3.600 Kč
registrace: healing-game.cz/workshop

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05/02/2025

Kateřina a Katrin právě otevírají registraci pro nový běh jejich SOMATICKÉ CESTY: Jarní semestr osmi setkání v uzavřené skupině, kde skrze pohybové improvizace a jednoduchá cvičení můžeme probouzet vnímavost k našemu tělu a dát mu prostor pro vyjádření... více informací na https://somatichealing.cz/somaticka-cesta_cz/

07/03/2023

Moje herna v krásném prostoru Limpid Works. Naaranžovaná a připravená na hraní. Nehrajeme si s hračkami, a tak je pro mě snazší, abych se tou nejdůležitější hračkou stal já :-). A ta poslední fotka zachycuje, jak dopadla moje aranž po hodině spontánního hraní: tatami se staly šachovnicí a bunkrem, plyšový míč byl zbraní i pokladem, deky sáněmi, polštáře figurkami nebo abstraktním břemenem, které je potřeba za sebou tahat až do vyčerpání... a nakonec je ze všeho bezvadná dopadová plocha pro salta a přemety...

03/03/2023

Tomorrow is the last day to watch this great film via this free stream. As I watched I made a few notes and share them here in English for my international friends and playmates:
Gabor Maté (25:11 min): “Infants when their brains are developing, if there`s stress around them they`ll tune out. That`s how they survive. But the tuning out gets programmed in their brains. Bing - they are diagnosed with ADHD. `Not enough dopamine, let`s give you Ritaline`” --- unfortunatelly I know this story as well from my playmates...
(31:41): “There`s an important chemical called dopamine. Dopamine is essential for motivation and attention. You take infant monkeys and you measure their dopamine levels in the front part of the brain and you find it to be normal. Separate them from their mothers? Those dopamine levels have diminished. In other words child`s brain chemistry is affected by the unavailability of the mother. And this is true even if the mother is physically there but emotionally absent.”
(46:05): “These people then develop life-long patterns of self-suppression which then suppresses the immune system as well. Because the immune system and the emotional system are the same. Not even controversial.”
(50:36min): “If you look at addicts [...] what`s missing is sufficient activation in part of the brain`s reward motivation circuitry of which dopamine is an important driver biochemically. Co***ne elevates dopamine levels. Ni****ne elevates dopamine levels." etc. --- What is great news is that physical activity elevates dopamine levels. And touch in safe environment (as play-touch is) elevates oxytocin together with dopamine and serotonin as well! Just need to play more. Simple :-)
(1:21:56): “[Love is] above all a constant seeking to understand the other. [Bernard W. Bail continues:] When a baby is understood that baby is loved. When the mother puts the baby to the breast and the baby`s hungry that baby is loved. When the mother picks the baby up and holds it and pats it and that`s what the baby wanted, the baby is loved. Being understood is being loved.” --- When playing one can feel understood. Profoundly, deeply understood with an understanding that goes beyond reasoning and logic. To play means being understood as a living being.

IN UTERO – Jak začínáme, takovými se stáváme Přinášíme příležitost shlédnout film IN UTERO s českými titulky za dobrovolný příspěvek! Možné jen do 12.3.! Stačí zadat Vaše jméno a email a ihned se Vám zde zobrazí instrukce ke shlédnutí filmu. Je to intenzivní zážite...

23/02/2023

Recently I have found this beautiful chapter by Fred Donaldson in the The Handbook of Humanistic Psychology. It captures the essence of true play so simple in its deep complexity. For everyone who does not have enough capacity to read Fred’s books, this is the introduction to the concept of Original Play… So here I write a few quotes from the text, actually its primarily for me so I can read then again and again :-):

“Inklings of Eternity: On the Human Capacity to Play”

“At each successive level of contest, there is an increase in the number of losers and a consequent narrowing or restricting of those with whom the winner can identify.
[...]
Children, for example, who must defend themselves and must increasingly compartmentalize their lives, are quicker to perceive threat in ambiguous situations and respond as though the threat actually was there. They become highly anxious and hypervigilant, always looking for a meaningful form of self-defense or revenge.
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We have lived on earth as if life is an inevitable contest. But in this act of self-defense, we lose sight of the fact that we abandon living so as to stay alive. Play's sense of love and kindness is truly a radical reconfiguration of how we think about and act in the world, transcending not only the parochial and tactical demand to “take sides” but also the seemingly primal demand for self-defense. The true power of our capacity for play, for example, is not survival of the fittest but rather the actual experience of being alive.
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What makes my playmates so ordinary and special at the same time is that they are willing to come out to play and love rather than retreat in fear and desperation. Their play is enthusiastic and simple. They do the one thing that most of us seek to avoid at all costs—to act wholeheartedly and put our entire bodies into a situation and to refuse numbness and protection in favor of love and immediacy.”

https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Humanistic-Psychology-Research-Practice/dp/0761927824

https://sk.sagepub.com/reference/hdbk_humanpsych/n42.xml