Playful Awakening (eBook)

Releasing the Gift of Play in Your Life

Dianne Gammage (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
240 Seiten
Jessica Kingsley Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-85700-350-8 (ISBN)

Infos

This eloquent ode to keeping a place for playfulness in adulthood explores the importance of play for leading a happy, authentic and harmonious life. Inspired by a plethora of writers and artists as well as the Core Process psychotherapy model, it reveals how play helps us understand ourselves, heal from hardships, and live life to the full.

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Playfulness has the power to reconnect us with our sense of self, and help us achieve growth and self-fulfilment.The author of this wide-ranging book explores the universal significance of play in the pursuit of happiness and authenticity. Providing a brief overview of the role of play in social, spiritual and intellectual endeavours throughout history, she discusses the harmful consequences of taking things too seriously, and reveals playfulness as a necessity for both the psyche and soul. Informed by the Core Process psychotherapy model, Buddhist philosophy and personal testimonies, the book illustrates how the lighter side of life enables us to re-examine the makeup of our identity and recover from negative experiences. Much more than an insight into the therapeutic properties of play, it is an eloquent ode to the importance of simply "e;en-joying"e; ourselves.

Autor

Di Gammage is a Core Process psychotherapist, dramatherapist and play therapist, and a trained Drama and English teacher. She lives in South Devon with her husband and two children.

Inhalt

Prologue. Act One. 1. The Universality of Play. 2. Towards a Definition. 3. The Cloak. 4. Play the Weaver. Act Two. 5. Falling Asleep. 6. The Day of the Square Yellow Sun - Obstacles to Play. 7. Deadly Play. 8. The Shadow Side of Play. Act Three. 9. The Call from the Great Below - Aspiration to Awaken. 10. Manifestations of Play. 11. Play for Surviving, Play for Thriving. 12. Staying Awake.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.8.2017
• Vorwort: Stuart Brown MD
• Zusatzinfo: b/w figures
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitsfachberufe
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie ► Ergotherapie
• Schlagworte: adulthood • arts therapies • Buddhism • Core Process • Counselling • dramatherapy • Life Coaching • Play therapy • psychotherapy • role play • Spiritual development • Survival Guide • Theatre • Young at Heart • youthfulness
• ISBN-10: 0-85700-350-X / 085700350X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-85700-350-8 / 9780857003508