Who is Playful Campus?
Playful Campus is comprised of Paul Miller and Dawn Daria, a husband and wife team. We each bring different skill sets forming a powerful team with a unique approach.
For many years, we operated under the name Flow Circus. In 2024, we rebranded to better communicate our goal of creating more playful campuses to benefit students and staff.
In 2017, we created the Flop Ball to make the skills and related mindfulness and resilience messaging more accessible and adaptable to the organizations we serve.
Paul Miller, Founder & CEO
Play personalities: Joker & Mover
Education: B.S. Accounting - Bentley University
Contact me (paul@playfulcampus.com) to talk about juggling, Flop Ball tricks or production, comedy, performance, or business. Yes, I did get an accounting degree and although I didn’t go the traditional path - I do love building and growing our business.
Why Play?
I learned to juggle in high school and it changed my life. I’m not exaggerating. Before that, I had a lot of misdirected creative energy. Juggling gave me confidence, a sense of agency, and a tool for connecting with others.
There is nothing I enjoy more of sharing the experience of someone feeling juggling for the very first time.
Education: B.S. Accounting - Bentley University
Contact me (paul@playfulcampus.com) to talk about juggling, Flop Ball tricks or production, comedy, performance, or business. Yes, I did get an accounting degree and although I didn’t go the traditional path - I do love building and growing our business.
Why Play?
I learned to juggle in high school and it changed my life. I’m not exaggerating. Before that, I had a lot of misdirected creative energy. Juggling gave me confidence, a sense of agency, and a tool for connecting with others.
There is nothing I enjoy more of sharing the experience of someone feeling juggling for the very first time.
Dawn Daria, Education Director
Play personalities: Explorer & Director
Education: M.Ed. Secondary Education - UMASS Amherst
B.S. Psychology and Philosophy - University of Scranton
Contact me (dawn@playfulcampus.com) to talk about programming, the benefits of play on well-being, my latest read, or my favorite places to visit (at least on this particular day).
Why Play?
The learning/play integration thread runs deep for me. I “played school” as a kid - my brother was the teacher & I took tests for fun. So I guess it’s no surprise that I became a teacher.
And even as a teacher, I embraced “playful pedagogy” even though I didn’t know that as a term at the time. I’ve always believed that “learning can and should be fun.”
It results in more engaged students, better results from them, and I enjoy it more.
Education: M.Ed. Secondary Education - UMASS Amherst
B.S. Psychology and Philosophy - University of Scranton
Contact me (dawn@playfulcampus.com) to talk about programming, the benefits of play on well-being, my latest read, or my favorite places to visit (at least on this particular day).
Why Play?
The learning/play integration thread runs deep for me. I “played school” as a kid - my brother was the teacher & I took tests for fun. So I guess it’s no surprise that I became a teacher.
And even as a teacher, I embraced “playful pedagogy” even though I didn’t know that as a term at the time. I’ve always believed that “learning can and should be fun.”
It results in more engaged students, better results from them, and I enjoy it more.
Paul Miller, Founder & CEO
Play personalities: Joker & Mover
Education: B.S. Accounting - Bentley University
Contact me (paul@playfulcampus.com) to talk about juggling, Flop Ball tricks or production, comedy, performance, or business. Yes, I did get an accounting degree and although I didn’t go the traditional path - I do love building and growing our business.
Why Play?
I learned to juggle in high school and it changed my life. I’m not exaggerating. Before that, I had a lot of misdirected creative energy. Juggling gave me confidence, a sense of agency, and a tool for connecting with others.
There is nothing I enjoy more of sharing the experience of someone getting the feeling of juggling for the very first time.
Education: B.S. Accounting - Bentley University
Contact me (paul@playfulcampus.com) to talk about juggling, Flop Ball tricks or production, comedy, performance, or business. Yes, I did get an accounting degree and although I didn’t go the traditional path - I do love building and growing our business.
Why Play?
I learned to juggle in high school and it changed my life. I’m not exaggerating. Before that, I had a lot of misdirected creative energy. Juggling gave me confidence, a sense of agency, and a tool for connecting with others.
There is nothing I enjoy more of sharing the experience of someone getting the feeling of juggling for the very first time.
Dawn Daria, Education Director
Play personalities: Explorer & Director
Education: M.Ed. Secondary Education - UMASS Amherst - B.S. Psychology and Philosophy - University of Scranton
Contact me (dawn@playfulcampus.com) to talk about programming, the benefits of play on well-being, my latest read, or my favorite places to visit (at least on this particular day).
Why Play?
I‘ve experienced the power of play and being in the moment of it. And I’m an educator. So I really get jazzed about what we can learn from it with just a little reflection. There’s so much self-awareness we can gain. For example, learning to juggle taught me just how much of a perfectionist I was (working on it).
Education: M.Ed. Secondary Education - UMASS Amherst - B.S. Psychology and Philosophy - University of Scranton
Contact me (dawn@playfulcampus.com) to talk about programming, the benefits of play on well-being, my latest read, or my favorite places to visit (at least on this particular day).
Why Play?
I‘ve experienced the power of play and being in the moment of it. And I’m an educator. So I really get jazzed about what we can learn from it with just a little reflection. There’s so much self-awareness we can gain. For example, learning to juggle taught me just how much of a perfectionist I was (working on it).