The optimal creative and learning state is also the state of play.  Play is the key to positive life and community change.  By playing with clients, we access our deepest purpose and potential -- then we live the purpose and potential!

Through role-playing games, martial arts, shamanic practice, and community transformation I (Nathaniel White) have found deep play to be transformative and life sustaining.  There are no realistic alternatives.

Original Play (the play of O. Fred Donaldson)
The Abolition of Work, by Bob Black