My Red Couch Talk with Caitlin Krause

ELEVATING WELLBEING, INNOVATION, and CONNECTION with special guest Caitlin Krause

When people ask Caitlin about her mission, she always goes back to her core values: “empowering meaningful connection, inside and out.” – The “how” is through wonder and curiosity.

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Caitlin Krause is an experience designer, author, and keynote speaker who bridges timeless wisdom with modern technology. She founded the interactive consultancy MindWise in 2015 and teaches about digital wellbeing and mindful XR technology practices at Stanford University and the University of Oregon. She has authored six books, including Digital Wellbeing: Empowering Connection with Wonder and Imagination in the Age of AI (2024) and Mindful by Design (2019). She presented about emotional intelligence, storytelling, and awe-inspired spatial computing at the mainstage TED conference in Vancouver. She holds a BA from Duke University and an MFA from Lesley University with a focus on poetry, imagination, and wellness. 

Caitlin leads transformative leadership trainings, live retreats, and workshops that combine modern AI-enabled technology, mindfulness, storytelling, and emotional intelligence. She has advised organizations including NASA, LinkedIn, Google, IDEO, and the U.S. State Department. With over two decades of teaching experience, she brings human-centered imagination and storytelling to the integration of wellbeing. Her mission is to help people align attention with intention, overcome isolation, and reinvigorate creativity to enhance our whole-life thriving with wellbeing and wonder.

🛋️ My Red Couch Talk with Caitlin Krause

Caitlin Krause is a “Wonder Architect” who helps leaders navigate our increasingly VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) world. As a Stanford instructor and the founder of MindWise, Caitlin has spent over a decade proving that mindfulness isn’t just a “soft skill”—it’s a high-performance system for the digital age.

In our talk, we explore her journey from a classroom teacher in Zurich to a global keynote speaker. We discuss why a “mindful pause” might actually increase your stress at first (and why that’s a good thing!) and how she is using 3D interactive spaces to redefine digital storytelling.

Talk Highlights:

• The 8-Year Reunion: A look back at our first meeting in Zurich and how the world of digital well-being has exploded since then.
• Mindfulness as a System: Why resilience is about inside-out awareness and creating “freedom” between stimulus and response.
• Navigating VUCA: How to use the Japanese concept of Ikigai to find your purpose in a volatile tech landscape.
• The Body Electric: Insights from her participation in the Columbia study on natural movement patterns.
• Digital Satori in 3D: A sneak peek at her new beta space for engaging with her book’s content in three dimensions.

🎥 Watch the full talk here:  https://youtu.be/kfpSiThr4cU

CONTACT CAITLIN KRAUSE VIA

Caitlin Krause Speaker Website: https://www.caitlinkrause.com/

MindWise Page: https://mindwise.cloud/

Substack: https://caitlinkrause.substack.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caitlinkrause/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/caitlinkrause_ck/

Medium Page: https://caitlinkrause.medium.com/

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