This is the best improv course I’ve ever done.
You go for a series of evening sessions where you play with your fellow participants and then on the last evening you put on a performance together. For a real audience.
Slightly scary in prospect brilliant in practice.
I’m thinking of doing it again, and I highly recommend it – if you’re in the London area and can free up Monday evenings starting in October.
spaciousness over stimulation
An project with the Oxford Praxis Lab
Learning happens best when the gap isn’t too great…
Magic, relationship and changing status
leaving your props behind
feeling the power of presence… and what it really means to ‘read the room.’
we’re hungry for connection
What brings conversations to life is often missed when we aim too high
What I learned singing to strangers on the subway, and why emotional connections matters even more in a hi-tech era.
When facilitating, more and more I want to sense the next move at my fingertips
James Gardner has a good post about innovation by taking things away. He uses the example of Dropbox which has been hugely successful by keeping things simple. The pressure is
Roger Schank looks at what google searches have led people to his blog. It’s both funny and sad. It leads him to this statement and I pretty much agree. Most
Izzy Gesell’s Ezine contains some great wisdom on the relationship between presence and focus.
Last week I recorded an interview with Tom Guarriello in Connecticut and Thomas Madsen-Mygdal in Copenhagen. We were talking about the impact of the rise of digital imagery on society
