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    A Game of Half Life: Exploring Wholeness through Play

    by Andrea Yang Feb 24, 2020 2 minutes
    A Game of Half Life: Exploring Wholeness through Play by Andrea Yang. Photograph of a woman jumping through the street by Hanson Lu
    Photograph by Hanson Lu

    A career coach experiments with an improv game and reflects on how an act of pure play informs living a whole, present, and fulfilling life

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    It’s Sunday morning at the Whitefire Theater, a small community theater in Los Angeles. Three of us are on stage, getting ready to play an improv game called Half Life. With this game, we have one minute to create a scene and then thirty seconds to re-play

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