Meet Your Playful Self engages people in a playful practice for living every day life. The approach is similar to The Artist's Way, which was published when the cover of Time magazine read: The Economy - Is There Light at the End of the Tunnel?- and found a needful audience. When we face difficult times we seek the very simplest practical solutions to relieve stress and enjoy our most personal lives. We can learn to awaken the joyful playfulness which is already within us just begging to get out. What better time than now?

The book premise is simple and finds the joy of being in a most obvious place. We can communicate playfully by practicing the skills artists, actors and improvisers have crafted since the 15th Century. In fact, the skills offer a spiritual connection to our creative source and can be practiced just as we might learn to play on a court, a course, or a river bank. Just allow your senses become your ball, your perception become your club, and your playfulness become your fly rod.

The practices for play are presented through 8 personal experiments and 47 powerful group exercises. We can overcome unconscious blocks to realizing our goals; resistance to listening, reacting defensively, and evading and questioning. With awareness and practice, we can find our funny to rise above nagging negativity and become light, intuitive and just more fun with our co-workers, family, and friends.

I did not set out to conceptualize an idea that would sell books. This work arrives from 40 years of leading workshops, creating web tutorials, and being blessed with the coincidences of my creative life that brought the late Chris Farley, Joan Cusack, Bonnie Hunt, and writers for The Tonight Show, The Onion and hundreds of adventurous souls into a circle of experience I lovingly call the collective we. A book is a better choice than a 48,000 word epitaph.