The science of play --a wonderful APM audio piece
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What I learned in comedy improv has helped me live life the way I want to live life. Each opportunity to get up and perform is like applying life skills in a sliver of time. In addition to having an environment where I can exercise my extreme quirkiness, I’ve learned that…
- I can spend a lot of time going over what I could have done or should have said to be “funnier”, but what truly counts is what I actually do and say in my turn.
- A true skill of improv and in life is to be with the fear when fear comes, listen intensely to what I am given, and trust that something comes to me in the nanoseconds I have to respond in the scene.
- Being a good audience member, clapping and cheering for my fellow improv’ers when they’re on stage is as important as being a good improv’er when I’m on stage. I enjoy being a good audience member as much as performing on stage.
- When I bomb and fail miserably, I know that it will be all over in minutes. A classmate suggested that we can aim to fail on stage early on, and get over that part of our mindtrash so we can go on to enjoy ourselves.
- Yes, and. Yes, and. Yes, and. The mantra for comedy improv is “yes, and.” Whatever I get, I say, “yes, and.” Whatever happens to me in life, I say, “yes, and.” I accept everything that comes by saying “yes”. I create my own experience from what I’m given by saying “…and…”
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Well, I was planning on writing up a more detailed summary of our Orcas workshop, but to be honest I am POOPED with the process of creating the new H2.0 social site, so hopefully you'll get a general sense of things by checking out the pictures, etc. Pictures are only from me so far (thus I'm not in them, nor the games and interactivies I facilitated), but they show the group's process as well as pictures of all our poster-board notes filled with great ideas, burning questions, and helpful insights.
Labels: humanity2.0, orcas, workshops
Strange indeed.
Labels: announcement
Well, we've finally decided (largely due to some welcome external energy and enthusiasm) to give the green light to the Humanity 2.0 workshop on Orcas. Though I started with excitement, the surprising lack of initial response and registrations took me somewhat by surprise. Though "I love the idea." "Yeah, it sounds great!" were frequently heard, it unfortunately seems that the people I was talking to weren't as into the retreat part of it --the time and financial commitment of heading out to Orcas that is. "Do it in Seattle, and I'm there!" Cheapskates! (: If this goes as well as planned, Seattle will happen as well, but first we're sticking with this Orcas Retreat and I think its going to be great.
Labels: humanity2.0, orcas, workshops
Starting i-link back in 1995 was my first big venture into the world of entrepreneurship and my first professional experience coaching. The Net, believe it or not, was still pretty new then. Who knew it would grow into such a massively ubiquitous part of our culture!?! My main interest was in working with people who were computer-phobic, which was most often the 'older generations' (which meant 'above 35' to me then.) I apparently had a unique talent of being both personable and being a tech geek.