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Q-Rious About Play

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Mindful Play Project & Play Story Press are excited to release Q-rious About Play: The Case for Playful Intelligence, by Rona Lewis. Work is changing faster than most of us can keep up with. AI is reshaping jobs, expectations are shifting, and the human abilities that matter most: curiosity, creativity, connection, flexibility, critical thinking, and resilience can easily get squeezed out under pressure. Q-Rious About Play makes the case for Playful Intelligence: the ability to bring those distinctly human capacities back into how we think, communicate, collaborate, and solve problems. This is not a book highlighting fun games for better...

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Play Story Fest @ Schell Games & Meaningful Play

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  Play Story Fest @ Schell Games & Meaningful Play A morning salon of facilitated conversations around play, culture and positive social impact. Play Story Fest will take place the Morning of October 16 at the Schell Games the morning after Meaningful Play 2026. We had a wonderful group of participants who engaged in great conversations throughout the fest. The Fest starts around 9:30am and going until 12:00pm. From around 10:00-12:00, there will be three conversation topics that flow across discussions. There will be a break for open reflection and further conversations, and throughout the Fest we will have a hands-on...

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Call for Proposals! The Psychgeist of Pop Culture: Star Trek: The Next Generation

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The Psychgeist of Pop Culture: Star Trek: The Next Generation, edited by Stephen R. Mallory “That is the exploration that awaits you. Not mapping stars and studying nebulae, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.” - Q to Jean-Luc Picard. From Star Trek - The Next Generation, “All Good Things” (Season 7, Episode 25) Star Trek is a global phenomenon and continues to represent one of the most enduring science fiction media properties to date, with media produced across sixty years and found as television and streaming series, movies, toys, comic books, novelizations, video games, board games, animation, and more,...

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Play Story Fest @ Joan Ganz Cooney Center & Games for Change

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Play Story Fest @ Joan Ganz Cooney Center & Games for Change An inaugural ½ day salon of facilitated conversations around play, culture and positive social impact. The inaugural Play Story Fest took place the Afternoon of July, 20 at the Joan Ganz Cooney Center the day before the 2026 Games for Change Festival. We had a wonderful group of participants who engaged in great conversations throughout the fest. The Fest was a ½ day starting around 12:30pm and going until 4:00pm. From around 1:00-4:00, there were three conversation topics that flowed across discussions. There was a nice break for...

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What We Keep Forgetting About Technology

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Play Story Press is excited to release What We Keep Forgetting About Technology: Lessons for Digital Innovators, by Richard E. Ferdig. Every generation faces the same fundamental tensions around emerging technology, yet somehow, we keep forgetting the hard-won lessons of the past. What We Keep Forgetting About Technology: Lessons for Digital Innovators offers essential lessons on how to recognize recurring patterns in new tools, understand why those patterns matter, and respond by building more responsible technologies. The book moves through four parts: foundational thinking about technology, a deeper understanding of how it shapes us as individuals, an exploration of how...

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Play Story Podcast!

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We're excited to announce the start of Play Story Podcast. https://playstorypress.org/podcast/ Play Story Podcast shares the latest from Play Story Press, an innovative open-access community publishing consortium. To start, we’ll primarily have two types of episodes: Playful Stories — interviews with people sharing stories about the importance of play in their lives, and Book Talk — interviews with our authors and editors about their Play Story Press publications. It’s a collaborative forum for the sharing and spreading of ideas related to stories and play as they are applied across various fields, and their overall significance in society.

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Play Story Book Talk – The Psychgeist of Pop Culture: Bluey

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In this Book Talk, Kelli Dunlap chats about her book, The Psychgeist of Pop Culture - Bluey. https://playstorypress.org/books/the-psychgeist-of-pop-culture-bluey/ Bluey is an award-winning animated children’s series centering on the titular Bluey: a curious, inexhaustible 7-year old (in human years) anthropomorphized Blue Heeler puppy, and her family – little sister Bingo, mom Chili, and dad Bandit. Although each episode is brief, they’re full of love, heart, and valuable life lessons for both kids and adults. The Psychgeist of Pop Culture: Bluey features both academic and memoir chapters which highlight the parent-child duality of Bluey viewership as well as the show’s playful way...

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