We want to live in a world with more of those.
We’ve spent the last seven years working on the Play Into Being ecosystem—and we’re just getting started.
It began when our own creative fuel shifted from chasing achievement to answering an inner calling. Without creative support, our projects stalled—waiting in the wings, unsure how to enter the world. Disorienting, yes. But it pushed us to design new practices: ways to usher work forward with enjoyment, ease, and play.
Play Into Being now supports founders worldwide with producing, workshops, cohorts, and experiments in how we work and play. Our approach draws from theology, philosophy, community, alchemy, psychology, and spaghetti thrown at the wall.
We’re lucky to be surrounded by brilliant, brave founders who’ve trusted us with the growth of their projects. Together, we’re learning how to play our most important projects into being.
Hi, we're
Dave & Kristen
Dave has lived an eclectic creative life, always balancing the mystery of the creative act and the very real need to bring ideas into the world. He came up in the design world, ran a creative agency, built and sold a software company that served hundreds of thousands of artists, and has spent years figuring out how to make founding work both sustainable and fun.
His superpower is helping founders navigate that vulnerable space where vision meets reality without losing what makes the work alive in the first place.
Kristen's roots are in social work and relational design. Her zone of genius is in crafting group experiences that leave you better connected to yourself and others, and full of those “aha” moments that actually land.
She's worked with everyone from grassroots nonprofits to federal government orgs to scrappy startups, but her sweet spot is community projects with creative founders. Whether she's crafting systems behind the scenes or facilitating live sessions, Kristen brings full-stack people ops magic to everything she touches.
Played into being in Austin