Part science, part stand-up, all heart. Jared wakes up rooms with talks on play, happiness, and escaping the screen-time trap. The stuff people quote on the car ride home.
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Most speakers inform. Jared transforms the room. He blends real behavioral science (the DOSE framework, the 2012 mental-health cliff) with laugh-out-loud play, so the message actually lands and sticks.
Every talk is tailored, but these are the rooms Jared lights up best.
The science of happiness made simple, and the daily habits that rewire it. Based on Jared's 10 Habits framework.
Why screens hijack your brain's DOSE, and how individuals and teams win their attention and well-being back.
How play builds trust, creativity, and culture, and why the best teams never stop doing it.
An honest, hopeful look at the mental-health crisis and the skills that build real resilience.
Stories from the Peace Corps and the front lines of global happiness work, and the joy of serving something bigger.
Have a theme in mind? Jared will build a talk around it. Just ask.
Jared's stories come from real classrooms and play fields around the world. Here is the foundation work he carries onto every stage.
The same behavior-change method Jared brings to corporate teams, shown in a live teacher-training workshop.
A return to where it began, teaching happiness through play in the country where Jared first served in the Peace Corps.
Jared coaches a handful of people at a time to build the habits of a genuinely joyful life. It starts with a free intro session. No pressure, just a real conversation.
Every coaching relationship includes full access to the self-paced Happiness Course.
Book a free intro session →Jared Hippler is a digital-health and addiction therapist and the founder of A Primally Playful Foundation, a nonprofit that trains teachers to teach kids happiness, mental health, and screen literacy through play.
He is a certified MovNat trainer, a Pentathlete, a martial artist, and a two-time Peace Corps Volunteer. He served in the Kyrgyz Republic from 2009 to 2011 (directing health and happiness at an orphanage through play-based teaching) and in Guatemala in 2017. He has spent his life chasing one question: what actually makes people happy, and how do we teach it?
That question became a movement. Since 2018, the foundation he leads has reached more than 20,000 kids, training teachers across Ghana, Costa Rica, Mexico, Guatemala, and the Kyrgyz Republic. Jared brings that global, hard-won, joyful perspective to every stage.
Inspiring the progress of humanity through the power of play.
Tell Jared about your event and he will personally get back to you with availability and ideas.