About Adapt2playYou can accomplish anything you set your mind to! Something will ignite your spark. Go find it! Experience, play, and find yourself!Hundreds of non-profits across the US and Canada organize a variety of participatory events that are accessible to people of all abilities. Surfing, skiing, cycling, hiking, acting, creating art, rock climbing, kayaking…. The list goes on.Adapt2Play enables you to find the opportunities to be active.ButterflyCaterpillar life. Cute little fuzzy slinking along the ground. Then they become trapped in a cocoon. “What is happening to my body!?!” Things are changing. They metamorphosize. …. Then they burst out of their cocoon, and discover they are now a beautiful butterfly and can soar!This timelapse video of the insect going through this process was taken by my friend Linda. Linda is a beauty, loves nature, and is a career meteorologist. She is an incomplete paraplegic. She also has several tattoos, mostly insects, including butterflies.How You Can Contribute to this MovementVolunteer! These events are not possible without the contribution of many amazing volunteers. If you like to play and enjoy helping others, you can contact the organizations that provide these events and ask about volunteer opportunities. Many of the organizations include this info on their websites.Participate! You can do it. Yes, you can! These adaptive events are run by people who have already encountered other humans with your disability. Most have been trained to assist. Find what events bring you joy!Get social! Connect and participate on our Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. Interact on those sites and on this site. Each event page on Adapt2Play is open for comments and conversations. Also… share your story! We are honored to promote you and your achievements.Feedback, questions, or comments? Please email [email protected]Support this site! We have a Patreon so you can donate. We also sell Merchandise. And if you are a business or have items to sell - can sponsor us! This will help fund our efforts to hire staff, add more functionality to this website, foster community, organize events to bring folks experiencing this lifestyle together, and pay photographers and videographers to capture the events and produce alluring content to share.How the Site WorksOrganizations:This video shows how to add an Org, Add Events, and Sync a Calendar: Video Screenshare on Google PhotosCreate an OrganizationApply appropriate tags for the Org. Associated events will receive those same tags as default.State org location. Our system will assign a time zone for events based on Org location.Sync an Org calendar to continuously import an org's events.Associate that calendar with the org you just created.Individual events can be added separately.Sync those individually added events with an Org on the dropdown list.Add appropriate tags for that event.If registration is required, add that in the description.Create an event specifically for registration date.There is a field on each event page that will enable you to link registration due date with the event.Users:On the homepage, you can enter any location, or click the tiles of the most common events. Or just enjoy the rad artsy aesthetic. ;)On the Events page, you can enter a location, select what distance mileage from that location you're interested in, and you can select event tags. You can select as many event tags as you like. You can use all those filter options, or none at all and just scroll down the page looking at events.The event listing is set to only show a portion. When you click on that event, you'll see it has a full page with more detailsWithin the event listing, it says what organization created that event. You can click on the organization name to read more about that organization and see all the events it is hosting.On the Organization page, on the left margin there is an alphabetized list of all organizations, so if there's an org you heard about, you can find it on that list and see that organization's page.If you want to volunteer or get more involved with an organization, you can compare multiple organizations that operate in your area and see what events they offer.The About Page. You're on it. You read this far. Congratulations.Meet the TeamLindsay, FounderIn April of 2021, while Lindsay was cycling, she was the victim of a hit-and-run and nearly died. Doctors, nurses, and her parents got her well on the way to recovery. Thanks to post-hospital interviews and conferences, Lindsay met several people with physical & neurological disabilities who had the desire to participate in activities, knowing it would be good for their well-being. Therefore, she decided to create this website to make it easy for people to connect with the organizations who provide those opportunities.Previously, Lindsay launched a city-specific social good event calendar in multiple locations, then became an agile product owner at FinTech companies, including BECU - the largest credit union in the country which has a strong social-good mission.In high school Lindsay created a support group for students with eating disorders. In Flagstaff, she collaborated on a female musician festival, and after tragic community events, she organized a supportive arts festival which quickly spawned a community center for at-risk youth. With a group of friends, she assisted starting the Cincinnati Fringe Festival now in its 26th year. In 2009, Lindsay collaborated with 2 others on a Canadian healthcare documentary narrated by Kiefer Sutherland.Micah Geisel, Chief EngineerMicah has had a lifelong fascination with computers and solving problems. He is always striving to simplify, while also bringing projects to their full potential, and enjoys working toward creative solutions. While not programming or looking up cosmological phenomena on Wikipedia, he likes to rock climb and travel.Michael Gubitosa, Head of UX DesignMichael has designed everything from restaurants to business cards, but it is the fluidity of designing for the web that really captured his interest. He especially enjoys blurring the lines between design and front-end development.After receiving a degree in Architecture from Penn State University, he moved to Portland, Oregon to further his design career and now runs Bot and Rose Design in partnership with Micah Geisel.Bot and Rose Design, IncBot and Rose started in 2006 as a friendly venture between Micah Geisel and Michael Gubitosa. The two entrepreneurs found that, together, they could produce well-designed projects with exceptional efficiency. They enjoy working directly with clients to produce cutting-edge websites and applications. Some notable clients from over the past almost two decades of work are: AT&T, American Trauma Society, Amputee Coalition, The David Rumsey Map Collection, Intel, Johns Hopkins, Kansas State University, Nike, The Texas Rangers, Verizon, and Wieden+Kennedy.Sharon Rose Catalan, Admin AsisstantSharon is the Virtual Assistant from the Philippines with over 10 years of experience. She excels in helping with administrative tasks and more, improving organization, efficiency and productivity. Previously, she worked in the corporate sector as an Account Executive. Driven by a desire to explore the world and her love for children, she worked as an English and Arts Teacher in international schools in Thailand, Myanmar, and China. Sharon is an incredible charcoal artist! She enjoys splattering paint on canvas, and writing romantic stories. She loves going on adventures and traveling to new places. She posts about her Arts and Adventures on her Instagram account @sharonrose_authorThe Story of How Adapt2Play Came to BeIn early 2021, while Lindsay was cycling, she became victim of a hit-and-run and nearly died. She was in a coma for several weeks, and spent the next six months in hospitals in San Diego and New Jersey. She acquired permanent, invisible disabilities: hydrocephalus, TBI, and hypothyroidism.Medically, she was not expected to heal. Discharged from hospitals and rehab at the end of September, 2021, Lindsay lived with her parents for the next 9 months until she was able to walk again. Fortunately, through hard work and determination, she recovered much of her physical abilities.Attending conferences, interviews, and survivor support groups, she met other people who had permanent physical disabilities. It quickly became apparent that many folks had improved their quality of life by participating in adaptive sports. They belonged to a special community of over-achievers.This is how Lindsay was introduced to Adaptive Sports. She experienced several events: Challenged Athletes Foundation, the Open Adaptive Surfing Championship, a Love Your Brain (LYB) retreat in Maine, and she toured the Adaptive Training Foundation's facility and programs. Thanks to Families for Safe Streets, Lindsay was invited to participate in the League of American Bicyclists' annual National Bike Summit in DC. In Florida, Lindsay got involved in Shifting Gears United - the only adaptive sport org founded by a Paralympic athlete. In January, Lindsay was invited to participate in a TBI Conference at NINDS / NIH.Adaptive sports are a huge component of physical and emotional healing for those with disabilities, but it's really challenging to find the events! And so was born the idea for a filterable directory.Lindsay is so grateful that she has made such progress towards her own healing. She hopes that her story and Adapt2Play will: spread awareness of adaptive sports, and connect folks who want to be more active, with the volunteers and organizations that provide the opportunities to do so.