Meet the Team
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Aurelie Harp
FOUNDER
I’m a certified transformation coach and creative consultant. I help people and organizations unlock their human potential and grow with resilience, creativity, and connection—through play and thought-provoking group coaching.
My practice, Womanity Play, is grounded in humanistic coaching. I combine the power of Play and Positive Intelligence® to spark growth, deepen relationships, and support well-being through compassion, critical thinking, creativity, courage, and action. Together, we turn life’s challenges into opportunities for transformation.
I’m also a stage director, writer, and performer with 20+ years of experience in relational leadership, social therapeutics, and the performing arts. I bring a global, creative, and activist lens to my work—as a French and American citizen, a joyful Buddhist, and a lifelong advocate for women, LGBTQ+ communities, and human connection across generations, cultures, and class. I live in Brooklyn with my partner Mike, our son Camille, and our daughter Joséphine. Find out more
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Marian Rich
CREATIVE COLLABORATOR
I am a multi-faceted artist, social therapeutic group coach, and art -ivist. Trained as a theatrical improviser, I use improv, play, and the expressive arts to help people find joy. Having found my way to collage, I have experienced first hand ways that creativity is therapeutic and uses curiosity and wonder and playful exploration. As a faculty member of the East Side Institute, I lead improvisational, social therapeutic sessions that have impacted activists, educators and scholars from around the world. I am the co-author (with Carrie Lobman) of “Playing Around with Changing the World,” a chapter about this work in The Applied Improvisation Mindset, published by Bloomsbury Press in 2021. I am a co-founder of the Global Play Brigade. Find out more
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Jessica Herbert
CREATIVE COLLABORATOR
I am a French-English bilingual actor, executive coach and psychotherapeutic counselor with 20+ years experience working with individuals and groups both in a professional corporate context, and in the intimacy of their personal lives. I trained as a psychotherapeutic counsellor at The Psychosynthesis Trust following an Advancer Practitioner Diploma in Executive coaching and my approach is integrative: I bring my blend of artistic passion, corporate expertise and psychotherapeutic insights to offer a holistic, integrative approach to personal growth and transformation.



