Serious playfulness

Johnnie Moore

Johnnie Moore

I’m Johnnie Moore, and I help people work better together

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Viv and I have been tinkering away on these little cue cards. When we’ve been training facilitators we use a lot of ideas from theatre improvisation. These remind us of some of them.

They tie in to our practice of serious playfulness. We’ve written a bit more about that over here.

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