Our theme for August is “Imagineering Your Life”.
It’s a playful take on the topic of Life Design — the practice of taking design thinking methods from other fields (e.g., product design, architecture) and applying them to our lives. Life Design can help us look at our lives in new ways and develop creative solutions to challenges, opportunities, or transitions we’re facing.
But “Life Design” can sound a little heavy, can’t it? Like there’s a lot of pressure to get things right.
On the other hand, “imagineering” — a term coined by Walt Disney while bringing his vision for Disneyland into being — sounds more playful. To me, at least. And more summery too, with its theme park associations.
I was eager this month to continue the playful creativity from our July “Humor & Laughter” theme, but also to help us pivot toward the fall, when many of us are ready to set goals and move into a more focused back-to-school kind of mode.
Thus the choice of “Imagineering Your Life”.
My hope is that this month’s experiences will be an opportunity for our playful, childlike creative selves to run wild — playing with imagery, metaphor, and our messy journal pages to stumble upon new insights and ideas that can enrich our lives.
Join me for our no-pressure live Life Design journaling series and Visioning mini-retreat. Or play around on your own with the resources I’ll be sending you this month.
Either way, August inside Joybook is a time for you to surrender perfectionism and control and open yourself instead to beautiful new ways of thinking and being.