THE PLAYGROUNDgr

THE PLAYGROUNDgr THE PLAYGROUNDgr believes that healing happens through play! Join us!

02/25/2026

THE PLAYGROUNDgr is proud to bring FOUR intentionally play based experiences to our community each year! Did you know our winter experience provides opportunties to share your story through art? Missed it ? No problem... Check it out here!

Special thanks to features artist Edwin D. Anderson and our sponsors LMCU, Grand Rapids Art Museum and The Cakabakery!

🎥 616 Media

It is true, THE PLAYGROUNDgr is an awesome organization to VOLUNTEER within! Want to learn more?
02/25/2026

It is true, THE PLAYGROUNDgr is an awesome organization to VOLUNTEER within! Want to learn more?

💫 Partner Highlight 💫 THE PLAYGROUNDgr is proud to provide free Play Therapy Based programming to YMCA of Greater Grand ...
02/24/2026

💫 Partner Highlight 💫

THE PLAYGROUNDgr is proud to provide free Play Therapy Based programming to YMCA of Greater Grand Rapids through our Healing through Play ™️ twelve week cirriculum.

Today we completed Week 4, "I feel" within the
Grand Rapids Southeast Promise Neighborhood Preschool Programming area, which provides Southeast families with preschool opportunities.

🌟 Tools: Play-Doh
🌟 Book: "The Feelings Book" by Todd Parr

🔊 We are nearing capacity!Year Five of THE PLAYGROUNDgr working alongside Foster Care Professionals and those touched by...
02/24/2026

🔊 We are nearing capacity!

Year Five of THE PLAYGROUNDgr working alongside Foster Care Professionals and those touched by Foster Care! We are thrilled to bring back Healing Trauma Through Play, a training for Professionals working in Foster Care based support settings! Join us in honor of May's Foster Care Awareness Month for this FREE training!

Registration :
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1980564772550?aff=oddtdtcreator

Honoring our passionate, fierce and brilliant THE PLAYGROUNDgr Board Members.Jeremy Knoester, we value you!
02/24/2026

Honoring our passionate, fierce and brilliant THE PLAYGROUNDgr Board Members.

Jeremy Knoester, we value you!

THE PLAYGROUNDgr team was thrilled to join together at Wedgwood Christian Services Annual State of the Child with over 4...
02/24/2026

THE PLAYGROUNDgr team was thrilled to join together at Wedgwood Christian Services Annual State of the Child with over 400 world changers!! Together we learned, play and grew!

THE PLAYGROUNDgr Play Heals ™️ is a research founded Play Therapy Curriculum ensuring ALL have access to play therapy an...
02/22/2026

THE PLAYGROUNDgr Play Heals ™️ is a research founded Play Therapy Curriculum ensuring ALL have access to play therapy and play therapy based tools and knowledge. Looking to join the social movement?

🧠 Learn more!
THE PLAYGROUNDgr is not based on opinions, we are based on research, facts and measurable outcomes! Join us for Sunday Statistics, a weekly opportunity to learn the facts about play and play therapy.

Grab a cup of ☕️ and join us for a ten minute read each Sunday afternoon!

learn! grow! change!

📚 "Play was first used as a form of therapy in the early 1930s based on the psychoanalytic understanding of the problems."

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09731342241238524

Are you a family touched by foster care? THE PLAYGROUNDgr would love to play alongside you on May 2 for a full day FREE ...
02/22/2026

Are you a family touched by foster care? THE PLAYGROUNDgr would love to play alongside you on May 2 for a full day FREE Play Therapy™️ based experience!!!

Join us for Play Therapy ™️ strategies, Theraplay Strategies, drumming, attachment based yoga and break dancing.

Learn more: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/healing-trauming-through-play-tickets-1980588760298?aff=oddtdtcreator

Thank you for our sponsors: Mayflower Congregational Church , FOOD HUGS , Wedgwood Christian Services. We couldn't do this work without you.

Thank you to THE PLAYGROUNDgr Board Chair Cody Dean Timm for investing in our programming and sharing your green thumb! ...
02/20/2026

Thank you to THE PLAYGROUNDgr Board Chair Cody Dean Timm for investing in our programming and sharing your green thumb! 🌱

We can't wait to share these incredible pots, plants and statement of self worth with our community!

02/19/2026

THE PLAYGROUNDgr is thrilled to be partnering with Wedgwood Christian Services for Monday's State of the Child all day experience.

We are especially grateful to Youth Program Coordinator Fatima, who devoted her morning to packing 40 Play Therapy ™️ based workshop packs for all 40 tables and over 400 guests who will be learning alongside Executive Director, Jacqueline Scherer, LMSW, RPT ™️ as we explore "You are Enough" a hands on walk up the brain!

Want to join us ? Link in comments!

Shout out to Brooke Jevicks and her amazing team for cultivating an annual space of learning, connection and opportunity.

At THE PLAYGROUNDgr we know the essential need for attachment for all, and a key component is growing attach in play!Our...
02/17/2026

At THE PLAYGROUNDgr we know the essential need for attachment for all, and a key component is growing attach in play!

Our history of humanity is a difficult, and a powerful reminder of why we MUST ensure attachment is taught, felt and provided in every day homes, schools and communities.

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1NqiXJjxVt/

02/16/2026

More THE PLAYGROUNDgr Monday Midbrain Facts for our Play Soleil lovers!!!! We are excited to bring the 1st Circus Inspired Gala to Grand Rapids. October 1, 2026, Year 3, where we bring circus arts to Grand Rapids in exploration and excitement of our work and mission at THE PLAYGROUNDgr.

Why? Circus arts are an incredible opportunity to practice Midbrain Play and overall body regulation. Arts such as juggling provide a full brain and body experience that sharpen focus, and provide bursts of dopamine, sure to bring you joy!

What is Play Soleil? We are glad you asked... Check out 2025 and the room of world changers, who helped us raise and invest in Grand Rapids!

Wishing to invest and join? Tables go on SALE FEBRUARY 17 (TOMORROW). Follow us to learn more.....

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233 Fulton Street E Suite 226 (Floor 2)
Grand Rapids, MI
49503

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Monday 8:30am - 5pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 7:30pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 7:30pm
Thursday 8:30am - 6pm

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