Embracing the unexpected

Johnnie Moore

Johnnie Moore

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

This year’s Applied Improv conference has a theme of Embracing the Unexpected. Which is kind of handy as the original venue has suddenly become strike-bound. At five days’ notice, the whole event is moving out of the centre of San Francisco to a hotel down the peninsula in Burlingame. I’m looking forward to being there on Tuesday!

Barring further unexpected events, I’ll be in Washington on Sunday and back home Tuesday week.

And I’m spending all of November and a few days of December in New Zealand, starting in Christchurch then in Nelson. With a sidetrip to Melbourne/Sydney at some point. This is basically a mini-sabbatical for me, though I shall certainly be blogging from whereever I end up.

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