Playing Human Playbook PDF

With Alison McLean
128 pages · 8 modules

A reflective playground for exploring how we experience life. Eight modules with questions and space to pause, notice our patterns, and play with fresh choices.

Download the complete Playing Human Playbook:
128-page PDF · All 8 modules

Explore at your own pace.
Price: AUD $24.99

Module 1: Remembering the Game

The doorway into the playbook.

This module invites us to loosen the seriousness of being human and remember that life is not here to be perfected, solved, or performed. It opens the field of Playing Human by exploring the role, the character, and the awareness beneath the costume.

A beautiful starting point for anyone feeling caught in identity, pressure, self-judgement, or the need to get life “right.”

Reflection: What if being human was not something to master, yet something to experience?

Module 2: Meeting the Character

A loving return to the human we are playing.

This module turns toward the personality, patterns, protections, wounds, preferences, and younger parts of the human with warmth instead of shame. It helps us see the character not as a problem to fix, yet as a living being asking to be understood.

A gentle module for self-acceptance, inner tenderness, and softening the voice of self-rejection.

Reflection: What if the parts we judge are the parts most asking to be met?

Module 3: The Body as the Controller

A return to sensation, signal, and embodied truth.

This module brings the playbook out of the mind and into the body. Through body signals, yes/no listening, sensation mapping, and curiosity, it invites us to experience the body as a participant in the game, not an obstacle to overcome.

A grounding module for anyone learning to trust the body, notice signals, and come home through sensation.

Reflection: What does the body already know before the mind explains?

Module 4: Emotions as Weather

A way to feel without becoming the storm.

This module explores emotion as movement through the human—weather in the nervous system, not identity. It offers language and practices for naming emotional weather, feeling beneath the story, and allowing feelings to move without handing them the whole controller.

A supportive module for emotional intensity, sensitivity, overwhelm, and learning to create space around feeling.

Reflection: What changes when a feeling becomes weather instead of who we are?

Module 5: Changing the Move

The place where patterns become choice.

This module explores repeated behaviours as learned moves rather than fixed flaws. It invites us to notice the old move, honour what it protected, and practise one new conscious move at a time.

A powerful module for interrupting automatic patterns, softening self-judgement, and beginning again with agency.

Reflection: What new move becomes possible when the old pattern is seen with love?

Module 6: Relationships as Mirrors

A relational doorway into clarity, truth, and choice.

This module explores how relationships reveal the roles we enter, the stories we project, the needs we carry, and the boundaries that want to become clear. It invites us to meet the relational field without collapsing into blame or self-abandonment.

A deep module for love, family, friendship, conflict, longing, boundaries, and seeing what connection reveals.

Reflection: Who do we become in the mirror of another?

Module 7: Resting Behind the Role

A return to enoughness beneath performance.

This module invites us to soften the roles we use to earn love, safety, worth, or belonging. It explores presence beneath performance and the quiet truth that the human does not have to prove its existence.

A nourishing module for exhaustion, over-giving, proving, achieving, caretaking, and learning to rest from enoughness.

Reflection: Who are we when the role no longer has to carry everything?

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Module 8: Playing with it All

The final integration of the whole human game.

This module gathers the full playbook into trust, mystery, choice, desire, timing, and co-creation. It invites us to play with life as it moves through breath, body, longing, endings, openings, uncertainty, and the quiet glimmer that will not leave.

A spacious closing module for surrender, intuition, trust, and living the remembering inside the whole of life.

Reflection: What becomes possible when we stop trying to control the game and begin to play with life?

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Habit Formula Collection

Habit Formula Collection
Journal, Writings + Eight-Module Playbook

It is, because we are.
In awareness, we have choice.

A way to explore our familiar habits, recognise what is playing, and discover another response through reflection, awareness, and choice.

Your download includes three PDFs:
• The original eight-page Habit Formula journal
• Seven pages of Ali-style Habit Writings
• The complete Habit Formula Playbook: 107-page PDF · All 8 modules.

Explore at your own pace. Print and write, or add your reflections using a PDF annotation app.

Price: AUD $24.99

Module 1: We Are The Habit

Witnessing the habitual self in play.

Module 2: Awareness and Choice in Play

Finding the pause where presence enters.

Module 3: Personal Habits and Triggers

Recognising the triggers and attachments that reveal the habit.

Module 4: The Habit Board

Seeing how habits move through different life areas.

Module 5: Reaction as the Gift

Meeting reaction as information and doorway.

Module 6: Reflection: Turning the Finger Inward

Moving from blame into ownership without shame.

Module 7: Reflection: Flipping the Script

Practicing a new response through authenticity, vulnerability, and choice.

Module 8: Reflection: Habit Playground Integration

Bringing the full formula into daily life.

Paradigm Play Playbook PDF

A short companion to Paradigm Play – A Liveable Rhythm. Eight gentle modules invite us to notice what opens, pause where life tightens, and explore the body, emotions, patterns, and everyday mirrors through reflection and play.

Explore at your own pace, with space to listen, feel, and find a rhythm of your own.

Download the complete short Paradigm Play Playbook: 27-page PDF · All 8 modules

Price: AUD $14.99

Module 1: The Field Opens

We begin with noticing. Before solving, analysing, or improving, we arrive in the first doorway… the felt sense of what is here.

Module 2: Freedom of Expression

We listen for the places where truth wants room. Expression opens the field, suppression compresses it and here, we notice where life wants to move more honestly.

Module 3: Witness Play

We enter the pause within the walk. Nothing to fix, nothing to understand and notice, feel, and allow.

Module 4: The Field Layer

We listen for the original signal. Before treating the surface, we sense the message beneath the symptom, the tone beneath the story.

Module 5: The Emotional and Somatic Layers

We meet the held story and the body as consciousness. Here, sensation, emotion, and meaning are allowed to speak without being turned into a problem.

Module 6: The Energetic and Physical Layers

We allow old patterns to loosen while honouring the body in form. Not escaping biology, partnering with it.

Module 7: Life as a Mirror

We widen the play into everyday life. Work, money, relationship, food, power, sport, not separate areas, yet life speaking in different forms.

Module 8: Living the Rhythm

We gather the whole movement. Walking, pausing, listening, softening, returning. Not an ending, yet a rhythm we keep remembering.

Life’s Playground Playbook PDF

Life’s Playground has grown more room to play.

Rooted in the self-alignment questions and affirmations from Alison McLean’s earlier book, Understanding Life for the Experience, Not the Drama, this companion playbook extends the reflections of Life’s Playground into everyday experience.

Forty playful questions across eight modules invite us to notice familiar patterns, loosen old expectations, reconnect with our own knowing, and explore fresh choices.

With Plot Twists, Coffee Insights, Soul Winks, expanded Reflections, Playground Pauses and Inner GPS reminders, there is space for curiosity, laughter and honest discovery.

Explore at your own pace, alongside the original book or as your own starting point.

The complete Life’s Playground Playbook: 120-page PDF · All 8 modules.

Price: AUD $24.99

Module 1: Stepping Outside the Box

We begin by noticing where life has become shaped by limitation, expectation, and repetition.

  1. Am I Fitting A Box?
  2. Am I Limited By The Boundaries Of My Thinking?
  3. Life Is Fun, Am I Having Fun? If Not Whose Life Am I Living?
  4. Do I Choose To Blame Or Take Ownership For My Life?
  5. Am I Living In Habits?

Module 2: Loosening the Old Grip

We meet the thoughts, attachments, and survival patterns that may once have protected us yet no longer need to lead us.

  1. What Am I Choosing To Hold Onto?
  2. How Do I Talk to Myself In My Mind?
  3. Do I Like Control?
  4. Am I Open To Create Change in My Life?
  5. The World Is a Reflection of Me; Do I Like What I See?

Module 3: Returning to the Experience

We move from existing automatically into being present, participating, and taking conscious responsibility.

  1. Am I Living Or Existing?
  2. Do I Make Excuses To Justify The Experience?
  3. Where Am I In This Moment?
  4. Do I See The Gift In All Life Experiences?
  5. Do I Take Responsibility For The Way I Think, Speak And Act In Every Moment?

Module 4: Choosing Our Own Way

We begin distinguishing what is genuinely ours from what has been inherited, repeated, or expected.

  1. Do I Follow The Road Of Others Or Create My Own Path?
  2. What Thoughts Am I Feeding?
  3. Do I Honestly Sit With Myself Or Keep Myself Busy?
  4. Do I Look At Life As Lessons Or Experiences?
  5. Is My Environment Living In Love?

Module 5: Creating a Life We Love

We explore attention, meaning, abundance, and what it means to consciously create a loved life.

  1. What Does The Life Experience Mean To Me?
  2. What Do I Choose To Focus On?
  3. Am I Living The Life I Truly Love Living?
  4. Do I Need Proof?
  5. What Is True Abundance To Me?

Module 6: Letting Love Lead

We bring heart, mind, choice, and self-belief into a more unified way of living.

  1. Do I Live In Love Or Fear?
  2. Life Is Simple – Or Is It?
  3. Does My Heart And Mind Work Together As One?
  4. Do I Believe In Myself?
  5. What Situation Do I Choose To Be In?

Module 7: Seeing Through a Different Window

We question normality, time, inherited beliefs, and the lens through which we experience life.

  1. What Is Normal?
  2. What Window Do I Choose To Look Out Of?
  3. What Is Time?
  4. How Many Beliefs Are My Own?
  5. Do I Live In Appreciation?

Module 8: Returning to Who We Are

The journey completes not with a final answer, but with a deeper listening and remembering.

  1. Am I Listening To Myself?
  2. Do I Trust Myself?
  3. Do I Truly Love Who I Am?
  4. Am I Evolving?
  5. Who Am I?

A Human Experience: A Collective in Play

Game. Set. Match. Play.

Four playbooks coming together to experience being human, our familiar habits, the perspectives we live through, and life’s everyday playground.

Includes Playing Human, Habit Formula, Paradigm Play, and Life’s Playground, plus the Habit Formula journal and companion writings. A space to pause, reflect and play with fresh choices. Begin wherever curiosity takes you and play at your own pace.

Four playbooks + two companion PDFs: AUD $59.99
Purchased separately: AUD $84.96 · Save AUD $24.97

A Business Playbook PDF

Business is a playground in awareness.

The way we connect, lead, serve, communicate, reflects the being we are. The pressure. The flow. The habits. The relationships. All here, reflecting us.

A Business Playbook invites us to recognise ourselves in the everyday experience of business. Through playful enquiry and reflection, we explore what we bring into work and what we contribute into the business playground.

As we are, the business is.

A PDF companion to pause with, write in and share in the living play of your business.

Price: AUD $23.00

Part 1: The Business as Living Expression

The business is not separate from our being

Part 2: Business as the Mirror

Business is a field of being.

Part 3: Service as Presence in Motion

Service is presence in motion. It is not only what is done. It is the being moving in the doing.

Part 4: Work as Awareness in Play

Work is awareness in play. The ordinary tasks are not outside the field.

Part 5: Pressure and Flow

The business shows itself through pressure and flow.

Part 6: The Habit Formula

Habits shape the mirror. A habit is a repeated way of being.

Part 7: The Weirdos

The weirdos are the creative ones. In business the weirdos matter.

Part 8: Sharing the Mirror

The mirror is part of the culture.