The latest episode of the Mind Your Mind podcast is a must-listen for frontline workers seeking innovative ways to boost resilience and well-being. In this episode, Roxana welcomes Portia Tung, an executive coach, play consultant, and advocate for the transformative power of play.
Portia shares her insights on how play—often seen as a pastime for children—can be a powerful tool for stress relief, emotional resilience, and mental well-being in high-pressure professions. She explores how incorporating playful practices into daily routines can help frontline workers manage stress, build stronger team connections, and maintain a healthy work-life balance.
Portia Tung is the Play Alchemist, an executive coach, and founder of The School of Play – inspired by her dream of happier adulthood through lifelong play.
Portia’s passion is in enabling human potential through the power of Play, a superpower each of us has and is massively amplified when we exercise PLAY as a collective. Portia loves supporting folks through logic, intuition and creativity so we can all live happier and healthier lives – creating inner peace which emanates world peace. She especially enjoys connecting with likehearted folks who wish to change the world for the better in our lifetime.
Through her combined experience of 25+ years as an Executive & Agile coach and Systemic Constellations Facilitator, she’s uncovered the secret formulae which brings about positive and enduring change among individuals, groups and teams. I call this way of leading – at home, at work and anywhere we go – Playful Leadership.
In her spare time, she enjoys befriending Jabberwockies, practising yoga, playing with the ukulele and having tea with fantastic creatures.
The School of Play: Promoting happier adulthood through lifelong play
www.theschoolofplay.org
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