Play creates space. Space to discover, to experiment, to step outside your comfort zone, to look at, understand, and experience things differently than you did before, to push your boundaries. Above all, play brings a lot of pleasure, so as a child you can never get enough of it. Play also creates connection. Connection with yourself, because it gives you insight into your own abilities and provides the opportunity to expand your own abilities. This builds your self-confidence. Connection with others because sharing pleasure with someone else brings twice as much joy. In this way, you also get to know each other better and learn to experience the world through the senses of others. Connection with your natural environment, because by discovering, experimenting, and being curious about your surroundings, you gradually learn more about how you are inherently connected to your natural environment. In this way, you learn to understand that taking care of your social and natural environment also means that you are taking care of yourself and vice versa. By playing, as a child you discover your own path (Tao) in balance (Yin & Yang) and without coercion (Wu wei).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A culture in which lifelong play is encouraged builds connection. Connection with yourself, with each other, and with the natural environment. It creates, without force (Wu Wei), a society that is in balance (Yin & Yang).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trias Vita is a centre for lifelong development that supports children and young people to develop in connection with themselves, others, and the natural environment from an ecosystemic Taoist life perspective: finding your path (Tao) in balance (Yin & Yang) and without force (Wu wei).<\/p>\n\n\n\n