Join Thrive Alliance and Purvi Shah for an in-person event: HAPPY - Have A Purposeful Playdate with Yourself. The 90-minute Playdate workshop will take place from 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm and will include movement, drum circle, and sensory story-making based on the principles of PERMA - Positive Emotion, Engagement, Positive Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishments/Achievements. All you need to bring is yourself in some comfortable clothes. Play equipment and refreshments will be provided.

Purvi Shah is an experienced nonprofit founder dedicated to enhancing the quality of life through Arts in Health, Playful Aging, Creative Placemaking, and Social Prescribing. She is skilled in strategic communications, marketing and communications strategy, board, team, and volunteer development, program development, grant writing, fund development, and brand amplification. She is drawn to projects that touch on the social fabric of life and engage her creative problem-solving interests. Her motivations remain focused on improving the quality of life and care, making it accessible to all.
Her core values revolve around
- Creative reframing and systematic thinking to overcome key challenges
- Promoting wellness in the workplace
- Advocating for STEAM, social, and creative prescribing
- Rethinking 'adulting' norms through a play-based environment, embracing childlike wonder and curiosity



