I took part in a great meeting today. True! And I’m not good at meetings. Usually. They drain my energy, leaving me feeling as though I’ve lost something. Just between you and me, I struggle to be ‘good’ at meetings. I have even been known to exhibit...

I’ve been reading lots of interesting blogs lately – and wanting to comment on them – and blocking myself by wanting to say something, oh, you know, clever or witty. So I say nothing, and I lose an opportunity to connect, and to just say, thanks for...

We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own. Ben Sweetland My introduction to improvisation was via Playback Theatre. Playback is a form that uses real stories – moments and stories from the audience – as a basis for the...

Hat tip to Leif Hansen: A poem by Haviz, 14th Century Sufi poet There is a Wonderful Game There is a wonderful game we should play, And it goes like this: We hold hands and look into each other’s eyes And scan each other’s face. Then I say, “Now...

At the end of each and every Applied Improv Conference is an Open Space Day (we’re still working on the whole conference being in Open Space, but that’s another story). I’ve had great fun the last two years opening space, and this year enjoyed Chris...