NEW GAMES & PLAY

New Games is an attitude toward play. The idea is that people can and should play together for the fun of it. Some of the games you've played before. Some we've changed a little. Others are new or are invented by you! New Games is for everybody.

New Games offers an addition and a new direction to traditional sports. Using little or no equipment, we play games that are exciting and enjoyable without requiring any athletic ability. The players - anyone who wants to play - are the main ingredient. By re-examining the basic ideas of competition and cooperation, New Games provides a recreational experience that is both challenging and joyous.
 
Through the games we play and the way we play them, we encourage participation, creativity, and personal expression. The playful spirit is free to emerge from within. As partners rather than opponents, we compete against the limits of our own abilities instead of against each other. Ultimately, in playing together, we learn to live together.

NEW LAUGHTER THERAPY

"New Laughter Therapy" (NLT) , a term coined by Denis McCarthy, integrates "new games", play and laughter therapy, also known as laughter yoga. NLT events are usually run during the weekend, mostly on Saturday afternoon and combined with a picnic lunch or afternoon tea party. These are free events and open to the general community. Contact the ASDC for details.


NLT LEADER: Denis McCarthy trained at the New Games Foundation in San Francisco in 1980. He has led New Games events in the Down To Earth Association, the WA Greens, the Movement for a New Society and Groundswell Non Violence Training Collection.

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