Playful Mindfulness: a joyful journey to everyday confidence, calm, and connection

by Ted Desmaisons

Playful Mindfulness brings together wisdom from the worlds of mindfulness (paying attention to the present moment with curiosity and kindness) and improvisation (making life up courageously as you go along) so readers can find greater confidence, calm, and connection. CONFIDENCE. CALM. CONNECTION. HOPE IS ON THE WAY. In these pages, Ted DesMaisons takes your hand and leads you on a beautiful, surprising and unruly adventure into the lands where mindfulness and improvisation overlap. There, you’ll discover the same freedom, ease, and joy that thousands of his students at Stanford and elsewhere have found for themselves.

318 pages, Paperback

Published March 21, 2019

Reviews

[Naotake Murayama]

The wisdom contained in this book is profound yet is well-grounded and approachable for people who are skeptical of "mindfulness." Told in a personable and encouraging style with a good summary and actionable pointers at the end of each chapter. For me, the author's frequent references to improv theatre techniques and experiences slowed down the reading most likely due to my unfamiliarity with improv, yet once I focused my reading on the "action guides," the reading got much easier.

[Kaki]

This was a fantastic read, and really useful for my job, too. I will definitely be revisiting this in the future.