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host of @freetherapy w @iheartpodcast
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How to plan a wacky weekend with your friends:

- Rally your friends
- Book a trip in nature
- Everyone plans a surprise activity and reveals it to group
Cook and eat meals together
- Share the challenges you’re going through and share the wins
- Try to stay off your phone
- Bring art supplies

BONUS POINTS:
- Sing songs together (made up or real)
- Draw portraits of each other and reveal
- Silent Journal time together
- Hike together
- Bring wigs

We do this trip every year and it’s always the weekend I laugh the most.

It reminds me that we just don’t make room for being creative, weird and silly. But when we do, it creates deep connections because we can be fully ourselves.

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”

Plan a wacky weekend with your friends and live forever!

(Tag your mates 🏴‍☠️) by @kevinhekmat

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Last weekend I went on my annual boys trip in nature.

We have one key rule:

Each guy leads a surprise activity on a different day.

Day 1: we dressed as pirates floating on kids bounce houses in a public lake playing battleship using walkie talkies.

Day 2: we did a photo shoot at a petting zoo wearing cashmere turtle necks and loafers.

For the second year in a row my activity was inspired by my days at NYU film school:

Make a one-shot music video where we pass off the camera to one another to keep the shot going til the end.

What started off as a goofy idea has turned into an annual tradition and a highly advanced bonding exercise where each of us has to work together taking turns as director, dancer, choreographer, and in the case of @seb100things, synchronized swimmer (all of us sprinting between shots to get in frame on time in the background).

Two years in a row, this has been one of the best weekends of my Summer.

If you’re thinking about a getaway with friends, do it.

And remember: doing weird things together is one of the fastest ways to remember why you love your friends.

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House credit: @reyi_um taken in Three Rivers, California by @kevinhekmat

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Each year we take an annual boys trip in nature.

We have one key rule:

Each guy leads a surprise activity on a different day.

Day 1: we played Battleship using walkie-talkies floating on kids’ bounce houses on a lake.

Day 2: we made a one-shot music video.

Day 3: I surprised the boys with matching turtlenecks and took them to a petting zoo for a photoshoot.

Full photoshoot drop on Sunday, follow to check it out.

PS: If you’re thinking about a getaway with friends, do it. And remember: doing weird things together is one of the fastest ways to remember why you love your friends. by @kevinhekmat

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Every year, three mates and I disappear for our annual boys’ trip.

We have just three rules:

1- Live for a laugh.
2- Zero inhibitions.
3- Friendship above all.

Because laughter, creativity and play are our favourite things, each of us has to surprise the group by creating one ridiculous activity for the weekend.

This year the boys conspired some outrageous experiences …

Day 1- Shot a one-take music video.
Day 2- Did a fashion photoshoot in loafers and turtlenecks at a petting zoo.
Day 3- Wrote and performed a musical.

This year, my contribution?

I convinced everyone to dress as pirates, climb into kids-size inflatable bouncy castles, and play Battleship in the middle of a lake…

…using walkie-talkies.

Somehow, no one drowned.

Every year this weekend reminds me of something important: play isn’t a distraction from life, it fuels it.

I always come home feeling more creative, more connected, and more alive.

So here’s your reminder…

Call your mates. Make the plan. Do something ridiculous.

Because years from now, you probably won’t remember another night on the couch.

You’ll remember the day you played Battleship dressed as pirates in the middle of a lake.

⚓️ Do it. by @kevinhekmat

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