Imagination, flexibility, innovation… individual attributes that are highly valued in organizations and communities. Indeed, some say the survival of each depends on them, but are they an inherent gift or a meaningful skill that can be developed? Using “arts & crafts” materials, games and yes, even toys help individuals tap into a place many have left behind in childhood. Remember childhood? When NOTHING seemed impossible, you could build a rocket ship out of cardboard boxes and laugh effortlessly when it fell apart? How many times did you invent a never-before dreamed of competition with whoever showed up at the playground? How might this kind of “playfulness” enhance your work?

Sometimes it becomes very clear that the answers to our deepest challenges lie within us. Wading through the noise of modern treatments for perennial ailments is often a despairingly lonely misadventure.

This book confirmed our belief in the efficacy of ancient knowledge; that which we intuitively know to be healing and sustainable practices of wellness. From the most corrosive and damaging trauma to the daily indignity of being in a caustic world, the reality is together we are stronger. This book offers some on ramps for living in community via mutually supported individual wellness.