Playful mindfulness
Connecting playfulness with mindfulness offers some mutually reinforcing benefits for presence, learning, freedom and inner peace. On the one hand, playfulness helps us to move, experiment, laugh, release energy, connect, feel, explore novelty, embrace change, get lost in flow, and absorbed in the moment in a task positive way. Mindfulness on the other hand helps […]
Owning your mistakes
We tend to treat mistakes as things to avoid at all costs. We rehearse, polish and double-check because we want to get things right. And while there’s care in that, there’s also a quiet cost: the more we grip ourselves, the less space there is for surprise, play, and connection. When we try this hard […]
Generosity
Attention is a precious commodity, and I love watching people giving each other their full attention In improv, this happens all the time. It’s this quiet, generous act that keeps me coming back for more. When people give each other their full attention, something shifts. There’s palpable sense of shared presence. In those moments, we’re […]
Just show up
“The world is run by the people that show up” has a lot of truth to it. It’s not possible to influence or change anything if you’re not involved, and yet many of us struggle to show up consistently in life for things that matter most. So I thought I’d share a few insights and […]
Just presence
This post is inspired by a class I took with John Cremer, one of my favourite improv teachers. Classes with John feel incredibly alive. Permission is granted. People take risks. People share. And the scenes speak for themselves. John once said that you could sum up his approach to improv in one word: presence. So […]
Improv-based training
Playful, experiential learning Applied improvisation (AI) combines games and activities from improvised theatre with situational facilitation and group coaching. It’s one of the purest experiential ways to learn using active and practical training activities from the worlds of improvised theatre, music or dance. Why do that? Because improvisers work in teams that thrive on collaborative […]
Take your opportunities
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