Playful Mindfulness: A Journey to Everyday Confidence, Calm, and Connection

Our fast-paced world and the relationships within it can leave us breathless and frustrated.

Mindfulness—paying attention to the present moment with curiosity and kindness—helps us slow down, reconnect, and access the inner resources that support discovery, delight, and a life well lived.

Integrating insights and practices from mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) with techniques from improvisational theater, this immersive course invites you to “play attention.” Rather than taking a somber tone, we cultivate awareness through humor, games, and applied improvisation.

Topics include relationship to failure, cultivating curiosity and kindness, the mind as storyteller, moving from reactivity to response, and mindfulness in motion.

Learning modes include formal meditation practices, informal exercises that bring mindfulness into daily life, and guided small- and large-group inquiry designed to draw wisdom from the whole group.

No previous improv or mindfulness experience is necessary.

We make a conscious effort to create a welcoming learning space for everyone.