Do You Remember How to Play?

There was a time when play came naturally—where curiosity and courage went hand in hand, where the rules of the game unfolded as you went along, and the joy of discovery kept everything in motion. TIAMAT Tier 1 invites you back to that space: to explore, to create, and to connect in ways that transform how you move through life.

This workshop is the first of three progressive workshops comprising 5toMidnight’s ecology of practices. Tier 1 is designed to re-awaken the capacity for full mind-and-body play; train participants in a synergetic set of practices, including embodied, interpersonal, meditative, and group practices; and will provide a theoretical framework to make sense of how the capacities trained in each practice transfer between practices, and back into life.

In this immersive training container, play becomes a practice of deep listening and bold action, a shared language where structure enables freedom, and every move holds the potential to shift the game. Here, we cultivate a kind of serious play—play that shapes how you show up, respond, and grow.

Across the weekend, you'll be taken across a flow of activities in improvisation, meditations and connection games as a fun, embodied way to learn philosophy and psychology.

These exercises fit together in a framework of what we call "Meta-maps" for Theory of mind (epistemology) and Theory of Reality (ontology):

When you leave, you won’t just carry the memory of what it felt like to play well—you’ll bring the ability to keep the game alive. Whether in moments of stillness or challenge, you’ll find yourself rooted in the flow of what’s possible, able to connect more fully with yourself and others.