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Using Improv to Save the World (For Real This Time
By Michelle Holliday. Original post was here solarium.cambiumconsulting.com.
[I recently wrote a perfectly fine blog post about Belina Raffy’s visit to Montreal and her efforts to “use improv to save the world.” That post is accurate. But it left me dissatisfied and mildly annoyed. It seemed only to scratch the surface of something that's actually earth-shattering. So here’s the post I really wanted to write. Enjoy!]
When we think about improvisation, we think of theatre. We think of acting in a role that isn’t connected with reality. We think of the need to be funny, even silly. At best, it’s frivolous and fun. At worst, it’s anxiety-producing. (“She’s not going to make us do role-playing, is she?” several people asked with considerable dread when I told them I had invited Belina to come speak about using improv in organizations.)
Improvisation Improves Your Life
All we want to say is thank you Dave and in terms of improvisation - 'Ditto!'
3 Things To Leap Over The Cusp Of Greatness
Not sure how you feel, but I’ve felt that I’ve been ‘on the cusp of greatness’ for a while now. So when my lovely web developer described me as such - I smiled. Clients love our work. More international clients are coming on board. Local clients are engaging us in larger change projects.
And yet the flow is still erratic. Projects are appearing like buses - nothing for a while and then they all clump together.
3 Ways To Do More With Less, And Less With More
I recently asked an HR development director at a leading UK insurance provider:
“Just curious - what seems to be keeping managers awake at night in your industry? What are you noticing as the biggest challenges people are struggling with?”
And he wrote back:
“Doing more with less (and not doing it yourself and working longer hours)
5 key things to do if you’re about to facilitate a workshop and you’ve just lost your voice
1. Panic (it’s going to happen anyway, you might as well get it over with early). Text your facilitator friends who are great at charades, tweet your plight, and if nothing emerges, proceed to step 2.
3 Key Things to Create Executive Dream Teams at IMD
I have a new hero and her name is Ginka Toegel. She brought Renatus Hoogenraad (part of the Maffick Switzerland Dream Team and director of Sparks ) and I in to IMD’s Orchestrating Winning Performance programme to introduce how applied improvisation mindsets and practises help in creating dream teams.
November Events
Wed, 07/09/2011 - 14:40 | Belina
4-5 November Belina Raffy will present a session called Using Improv to Save the World at the Balance-Unbalance conference in Montreal, Canada
Embracing new business opportunities the ‘improv’ way
I’ve been reading about the effects of long term chronic stress on the brain, body and learning (www.brainrules.net - rule 8). It’s not good. Our brains were meant to deal with stress that is over in a minute or two. The big creature eats us or not. If we worry about things over long periods of time, say over the two years plus that the economy has been doing interesting things, a few things can happen. Our ability to take in and apply new information deteriorates. Innovation goes o
September Events
Wed, 17/08/2011 - 14:35 | Belina
19 - 20 September Belina Raffy is working with StratX to support a program for Symantec.
23 September Maffick is helping a brilliant award-winning company to prepare for the Best Companies award.
27 September Belina Raffy will once again hone her own improvisation skills by working with young offenders at Reading Prison on the Chrysalis Programme: www.chrysalisprogramme.com.
