TEDxNavesink aims to bring the most enlightening and inspiring TED Talks to the Jersey Shore area. This year's event, entitled PLAY, instilled us with powerful ideas and compelling suggestions, meant to provoke us into thought and conversation. Speakers presented us with moving lessons about the importance of play to our children and to ourselves in personal, intellectual, and social growth, in the development of our minds and our bodies, and in our overall health and happiness. TEDxNavesink's PLAY was undoubtedly an empowering event - next year's is sure to be even better!