Books from our Founders

Power Up Your Creativity by Rachael Taylor – Out now!

Ignite Your Creative Spark. Develop a Productive Practice. Set Goals and Achieve Your Dreams.

Attention all creatives: Learn how to power up your creativity! If you’re longing to take your vision, energy, and output to the next level, this book is the resource you need to make it happen. Author Rachael Taylor—successful artist, pattern designer, entrepreneur and the cofounder of the Make It In Design online education platform—shares creative motivation and guidance that will help you achieve your goals and thrive, no matter your starting point.

Identify how to get started, find and sustain inspiration, and cultivate creative courage
Clarify your vision and consider how you need to evolve
Stay motivated and establish creative longevity
Shift gears to set sights on your next goal as you reach each destination
Create with intention and acknowledge—and embrace—your creative power

Whether you’re just starting out on your creative path, or you’re looking to fruitfully channel your creative practice toward a career or side hustle, Power Up Your Creativity offers practical advice and support for upping your creative game and achieving your dreams. So, what are you waiting for?

Order today and get free access to a dedicated live support group including monthly live streams and Q&A’s with Rachael, discounts from creative friends, exclusive resources, creative challenges, a weekly book club, industry insights and so much more.

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Kokoro: Japanese wisdom for a life well lived by Beth Kempton

Kokoro: Japanese wisdom for a life well lived is MIID co-founder Beth Kempton’s sixth non-fiction book. It has been chosen by Stylist Magazine as one of the Best New Health & Wellness Books of 2024, and is being translated into ten languages. Kokoro is the follow up to Beth’s bestselling earlier book Wabi Sabi: Japanese wisdom for a perfectly imperfect life.

kokoro [n.] intelligent heart, feeling mind

One year. Two devastating losses. Three sacred Japanese mountains. A major life transition, a heart full of grief and a revelation that changes everything.

Join Japanologist Beth Kempton on a pilgrimage through rural Japan in search of answers to some of life’s biggest questions: How do we find calm in the chaos and beauty in the darkness? How do we let go of the past and stop worrying about the future? What can an awareness of impermanence teach us about living well?

Together you will journey to the deep north of Japan, hike ancient forests, watch the moon rise over mountains of myth and encounter a host of wise teachers along the way – Noh actors, chefs, taxi drivers, coffee shop owners, poets, philosophers and the spirits that inhabit the land. You will contemplate the true nature of time at one of the world’s strictest Zen temples and nothing will be quite the same again.

This book is an invitation to cultivate stillness and contentment in an ever-changing, uncertain world. It all begins with the kokoro, a profound Japanese term which represents the intelligent heart, the feeling mind and the embodied spirit of every human being.

To explore the kokoro is to explore the very essence of what it means to be human in this tough yet devastatingly beautiful world. When you learn to live guided by the light in your kokoro, everything changes, and anything is possible.