In-Person Offerings
Shift Happens Presents:
PLAY IT FORWARD
A 3-part workshop series to help you shift your state, soften your inner critic, and build your joy tolerance — through embodied play.
In this 3-part series, you’ll learn practical tools for shifting your state through embodied play, movement, and ritual. You’ll reconnect with parts of yourself that are wise, wild, and deeply alive.
Because joy isn’t only a reward for healing... it’s also part of the work.
And most of us have a lower tolerance for joy than we do for pain.
It’s easier to over-effort. To stay in self-analysis mode. To forget that joy is a resource and a rebellion. Especially when the world feels heavy, reconnecting to your inner compass of delight is what makes life feel worth living. It's not about bypassing, it’s about finding balance.
These workshops are silly, soulful, and low-pressure. You’ll move, laugh, create, and leave with simple, repeatable practices to bring joy into your real life.
Come to one or all three.
Bring your curiosity, your stuckness, your good intentions... and let’s play!
If you're ready to have fun and move some energy, these workshops are for you.
Click the links below to add the workshops to your cart:
1. Transformative Play
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2. The Trickster Within
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3. Make Your Own Magic
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WORKSHOP 1:
Transformative Play
Awaken the Wonder Within
Next Date: Next date TBD
Location: Cully neighborhood in NE Portland (Private address)
Cost: Sliding scale $20 - $60 (Suggested: $30)
Remember when everything felt like magic? When you could turn a stick into a wand, a cape into a superpower, or a field into a kingdom? That version of you still exists — and it has something to teach you.
In this energizing, full-body workshop, we use movement, mindfulness, and embodied play to tap back into the awe, aliveness, and silly brilliance of childhood. You’ll explore themed play stations (obstacle course, finger paint, body paint, superhero dress-up, parachute play), practice being fully in your body, and connect with others in playful, pressure-free ways. Permission to be weird. To be soft. To be curious.
You’ll leave with:
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A joyful reconnection to your playful self
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Insights into how embodiment supports change
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A renewed sense of presence, wonder, and possibility
Come as you are. No performance, costumes, or past experience needed. Just bring your willingness to move, explore, and get a little messy.
WORKSHOP 2:
The Trickster Within
Disrupt your stuck patterns with play, perspective, and embodied mischief.
Next Date: Next date TBD
Location: A private backyard in the Cully Neighborhood in Portland
Cost: Sliding scale $20 - 60 (suggested: $30)
You don’t have to fight your inner critic — you can outwit it!
This workshop invites you to tap into the Trickster archetype: the playful, mischievous part of you that knows how to slip through stuckness, laugh at rigid rules, and try something new just because. Through movement, games, silly rituals, and irreverent props, we’ll explore what happens when you stop over-efforting and start experimenting.
Permission to be weird. To be curious. To interrupt your own patterns — on purpose.
You’ll leave with:
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A playful reframe for your “stuck” places
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More flexibility in body, thought, and spirit
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A reminder that joy and mischief are healing forces, too
Come ready to break your own rules — gently, joyfully, and in community.
WORKSHOP 3:
Make Your Own Magic
Design your own rituals for joy, resilience, and real-life transformation.
Next Date: Next date TBD
Location: A private backyard in the Cully Neighborhood in Portland
Cost: Sliding Scale $20 - $60 (suggested: $30)
This is the third and final workshop in the Play It Forward series—and it’s all about turning everything you’ve explored so far into something you can actually use in real life.
Whether or not you came to the first two workshops, this one stands on its own. We’ll explore how to shift your emotional and physical state using three powerful tools: your body, your focus, and your language.
Through embodied play, silly rituals, and real-time practice, you’ll build your own State Shift Emergency Kit—a collection of personalized tools, objects, and spells to help you move through stuckness and reconnect with joy, curiosity, and self-trust.
In this workshop, you will:
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Learn how to shift your state using simple, science-backed techniques
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Practice playful tools to rewire your focus, story, and physical energy
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Create your own magic spell to support your future self
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Build a personalized kit you can reach for in real-life stuck moments
You don’t need to feel playful to come... you just need to be human!
Testimonials
"Holy wow! The Shift Happens workshop was such a joyful, unique experience!”
“I walked away with so many beautiful reminders, a lighter heart, and feeling more connected overall — to others and to my most true self…”
“As a chronic overthinker and someone who often takes myself too seriously, this is the kind of science-based magicI didn't know I needed!”
“I could almost feel my brain rewiring in real time.”
“So beyond grateful!”
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