RESTORATIVE WELLNESS PLAYGROUND with Kelvin
Restorative Wellness Playground is an interactive, community-centered experience that uses play, movement, and creative engagement as pathways to connection, healing, and belonging. This class is free and open to the Tribe. Bring a snack and get ready to have a good time with other people
Too often, communities miss opportunities to truly know one another beyond roles and titles. This workshop invites community members and leaders into a grounded space for movement, reflection, authentic connection, and community, where joy, embodiment, and restoration are at the center of the experience.
Through playful movement, creative games, guided dialogue, and cultural expression, including Bahamian and Haitian dance woven throughout the session, participants explore both their shared humanity and their unique differences.
Play becomes a powerful tool for lowering defenses, building trust, and creating space for genuine connection. The experience also incorporates mindful movement practices that support spinal alignment and counter the effects of sedentary lifestyles, helping participants feel more present, energized, and at home in their bodies.
Rooted in Restorative Wellness Practice, the workshop centers diversity, inclusion, and belonging, cultivating an environment where participants feel respected, safe, and valued. With a focus on voice, choice, and personal narrative, attendees are invited to experience empathy and compassion in action rather than concept alone.
Integrated reflection and informal dialogue at the close of the session offer space to gently “remove the mask,” process insights, and carry the experience forward.
By blending play, movement, culture, and self-care, this work frames wellness as both self-preservation and collective care.
As participants release tension, engage honestly, reconnect with joy, and move together through shared cultural rhythms, pathways open toward healthier relationships and a more connected, collaborative, and restorative community.
Would love to have you there if your spirit and schedule align.
“One does not have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient.”
— Charles M. Blow
About Kelvin
Kelvin Cooper is a professor at Bronx Community College and the founder of Restorative Wellness Playground (RWP), a practice created to move wellness beyond conversation into lived experience. Kelvin supports individuals in slowing down, regulating stress, reconnecting with their bodies, and building healthier relationships with themselves and others. His work is practical, culturally grounded, and joy-centered—designed to help people not just learn about wellness, but truly feel it and carry it into their everyday lives.