Digital Wellbeing: Empowering Connection With Wonder and Imagination in the Age of AI (September 2024)
Elevate your digital wellbeing by embracing wonder, creativity, and technology.
“Digital Wellbeing masterfully explores the intersection of technology and human potential. This book is a must-read for those who want to leverage the power of AI to unlock their creativity and imagination and ultimately invent new means of expression that will go way beyond human language, art, and science of today.” ―Ray Kurzweil, inventor, futurist, and author of New York Times bestseller The Singularity Is Nearer
Digital Wellbeing is a transformative guide that offers leaders, business professionals, educators, and lifelong learners a path to thrive in the digital age. Krause provides innovative strategies to enhance mindfulness, creativity, and wellbeing in a world enriched by technology. This book empowers readers to leverage digital tools to create meaningful, positive connections and improve their overall quality of life. Discover how to integrate principles of wonder, awe, creativity, and imagination with cutting-edge technology to achieve a balanced and fulfilling digital experience.
- Learn about frameworks for digital wellbeing and how to apply them effectively.
- Gain insights on using technology to enhance connection and a sense of belonging.
- Explore the impact of spatial computing, immersive imagination, virtual reality, and AI on wellbeing.
- Understand social media’s impact on societal expectations and personal interactions.
- Access actionable strategies for leaders, educators, and individuals to excel digitally.
- Learn how tech usage can be more intentional and less reactionary.
- Engage with reflection questions and exercises to deepen understanding and application.
Combining the structure of a how-to guide with the depth of a reflective workbook, this book offers practical advice and engaging exercises, all delivered in Krause’s distinctive voice. Explore the transformative potential of Digital Wellbeing and learn how to excel in a digitally connected world with wonder and imagination. Begin your journey towards a balanced, enriching digital life today.
Designing Wonder: A Guide to Transformative VR Experiences (March 2021)
Designing Wonder is a book that brings together ideas about how to create VR experiences that have emotional resonance and impact, featuring research and also the voices of leaders in the field, including Tom Furness, Jessica Outlaw, Skip Rizzo, Jeremy Bailenson, Lorelle VanFossen, Kent Bye, Daniel Dyboski-Bryant, Jackie Lee, Chris Madsen, Jeremy Nickel, Jaime Donally and more. Talking about everything from The VR Hero’s Journey to Maslow Before Bloom, as well as introducing a new methodology for how to design meaningful experiences in VR, filled with wonder, this book is about experience design and more, reaching everyone from corporate training leaders to educators and those who organize social groups in VR. If you’re passionate about VR and XR collaboration, as well as new opportunities in spatial immersive tech, this book is designed with you in mind.
With expert guidance about how to connect and thrive as you design experiences for yourself and others, this book also includes a “Voices on VR” section of interviews with leaders & researchers in fields of cognitive science, UX and learning design. It’s filled with ideas and stories that you can apply to your own design, leadership and life.
Designing Wonder: Leading Transformative Experiences in Virtual Reality (2020) has a new, updated version, just released in March 2021! The full digital copy of the book is available below in .pdf or .epub (easily converted to Kindle) format. The book contains useful frameworks, methodology and history of incorporating innovative collaboration exercises in XR.
Mindful by Design: Cultivating Aware, Advancing, and Authentic Learning Experiences (2019)
In a busy world full of distractions, mindfulness is about being present in everything we do. This must-have resource explores how mindfulness can improve mindset, practices, and quality of learning, promoting the development of future-forward skills including creativity, entrepreneurship, innovation, and communication. Readers will learn how to cultivate a personal mindfulness practice that reflects their individuality, and explore how to create a community of care and compassion through mindfulness, design and storytelling.
Mindful by Design provides 24 detailed exercises, including step-by-step mindfulness practices for individuals and teams at all ages, ready to implement immediately. Filled with practical, accessible explanations and applications that are adaptive and engaging, this book demystifies mindfulness and empowers each individual to embrace a personal practice and inspire powerful collaborative environments.
Mindful by Design is a guide to well-being, a practical resource, and a creative call-to-action, as Caitlin Krause helps readers to bridge the gap between prioritizing true connection and achieving it.
Leah Weiss, author of How We Work: Live Your Purpose, Reclaim Your Sanity, and Embrace the Daily Grind; Lecturer, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Krause shares valuable strategies that will help any educator, coach, manager, or learning professional bring out the best in those they serve.
Dorie Clark, adjunct professor at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and author, Entrepreneurial You and Stand Out
Mindful by Design is a valuable and inspiring guide, offering generous insights and practical advice for those seeking to center, strengthen, and clarify their efforts both in and outside of the classroom.
Dinty Moore, author, The Mindful Writer