- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (30 May 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 061826924X
- ISBN-13: 978-0618269242
- Product Dimensions: 20.7 x 20.3 x 1.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,637,821 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
A Whole World of Self-Discovery
19 Feb 2008
Format:Paperback
At first glance, The Playful Way to Knowing Yourself appears to be a book you could breeze through in an afternoon. But after spending a few minutes with author Roberta Allen's format, one soon discovers that there is a whole world of self-discovery packed into these 213 pages.
The Playful Way to Knowing Yourself is "A Creative Workbook to Inspire Self-Discovery." Allen's book is unlike any workbook I have ever used or read in the past. Writing prompts paired with photographs coax creativity through verbal and visual pathways.
Allen's prompts encourage us to go deep within: "Imagine this woman seeing you exactly the way you want to be seen. What does she see?" She encourages us to be reflective: "What keeps you from being still?" And, she brings us to a point of making dreams realities: "Imagine yourself floating among these clouds in harmony with everyone and everything. What can you do to make that happen?"
The writing prompts have much greater impact because Allen has carefully paired them with photographic images that draw us in or push us further in our dreaming, our thinking and our writing.
Roberta Allen is a creativity coach, writing instructor, and author of several fiction and non-fiction books. After reading The Playful Way to Knowing Yourself--and working through the activities therein--I couldn't wait to get my hands on a copy of her book The Playful Way to Serious Writing.
by Lee Ambrose
for Story Circle Book Reviews
reviewing books by, for, and about women
The Playful Way to Knowing Yourself is "A Creative Workbook to Inspire Self-Discovery." Allen's book is unlike any workbook I have ever used or read in the past. Writing prompts paired with photographs coax creativity through verbal and visual pathways.
Allen's prompts encourage us to go deep within: "Imagine this woman seeing you exactly the way you want to be seen. What does she see?" She encourages us to be reflective: "What keeps you from being still?" And, she brings us to a point of making dreams realities: "Imagine yourself floating among these clouds in harmony with everyone and everything. What can you do to make that happen?"
The writing prompts have much greater impact because Allen has carefully paired them with photographic images that draw us in or push us further in our dreaming, our thinking and our writing.
Roberta Allen is a creativity coach, writing instructor, and author of several fiction and non-fiction books. After reading The Playful Way to Knowing Yourself--and working through the activities therein--I couldn't wait to get my hands on a copy of her book The Playful Way to Serious Writing.
by Lee Ambrose
for Story Circle Book Reviews
reviewing books by, for, and about women
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Lots of suprises and fun!
3 Aug 2010
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I am recovering from surgery so I could not have received this workbook at a better time. It is a lot of fun and full of surprising insights into our true inner self.Very thought provoking.One suggestion-do it in pencil so you can come back to it again in the future and see how you have changed. It's a book that can be used over an over again on our life journey. This would be a great book for psychotherapists to use/recommend to clients.Fun for groups also!
Inviting a Deeper Connection to Ourselves and to the World
5 Jun 2003
Format:Paperback
"Robert Allen's creative and evocative synthesis of photo art and writing is a wonderful invitation to increasing self-awareness. The book not only engages, but includes readers in its process of completion on blank pages upon which to write ourselves into her book. Through photographs and evocative questions, Allen shows the way to a deeper connection to ourselves as well as the world around us. THE PLAYFUL WAY TO KNOWING YOURSELF provides us with a highly individual process in which we get out of it as much as we give."
From a review by Heidi Rain appearing in the May-June issue of SPIRIT OF CHANGE magazine.
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