(highlight:: Idea: Use applied improvisation techniques in training and facilitation
Summary:
I incorporate applied improvisation, using improv techniques and practices, into my work in training and facilitation.
It's fantastic!
Transcript:
Speaker 1
The work that I do is I incorporate something that's called applied improvisation. And that's using improv, improv techniques and practices into training and facilitation. It's fantastic.)
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(highlight:: Life is improv and everyone is creative - it's just a matter of finding out in what ways
Summary:
Learning improv teaches you that life is all about improvisation.
Every moment requires you to respond and be creative. Being a creativity evangelist means showing others that they are inherently creative and helping them discover their unique ways of expressing it.
Transcript:
Speaker 1
One of the things you realize when you learn improv is that your whole life is improv. Everything that you do almost at any point in time is improv. You literally, last week's events are any indication. You literally don't know what's going to come next. And then you respond to it. And so, to think that creativity is this like I'm practicing it in my job and I don't know how it's like we're constantly using creativity. And so, I think the thing that makes me kind of, really the reason why I'm a creativity evangelist quote unquote is because I'm trying to open up people to realizing that, first of all, You're creative, whether or not you, it's something you say as part of your job that you are, you're creative in some way, the trick is knowing how how you're creative, not if you're creative, And then expanding how you're creative, right.)
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(highlight:: Blockers of creativity and collaboration within groups
Key takeaways:
• Recognize your blocks to collaboration and trust your own creativity.
• Become comfortable with experimentation and failing.
• Focus on connecting and leveraging collective brilliance.
• Become a good listener and be responsive and adaptive.
• Value diversity of thought for stronger ideas.
• Make the process of combining ideas enjoyable and playful.
• Embrace stupid ideas and learn from failure.
Transcript:
Speaker 1
So, recognizing your blocks to collaboration and those are like the mental blocks that get in the way of creativity. For, you know, each person to actually learn how to trust their own creativity and then kind of looking at experimentation and being comfortable with failing. Then we'll get to the part of connecting. So, like, once you have unblocked, you know, these kind of mental barriers that have get in the way of you being able to collaborate and trust your own creativity. Then we're going to work on connecting. So, really focusing on creating and leveraging connective brilliance and collective brilliance, sharing your ideas and feeling confident sharing your ideas, becoming a really Good listener, because what's so important with collaboration is that you can actually listen and then you can play on whatever people say. And then, you know, within that, having that ability to be responsive and adaptive, right, to work with what you've got and then to keep, you know, keep doing stuff with it. Then after that, we're going to talk about combining. So, how to like take people's ideas, put them together, make something different. How important actually a diverse, a diversity of thought and a diversity within the group is so that you have better and stronger ideas. And then basically, then the fun part is playing. So then how to kind of kind of make a dynamic so that you're actually enjoying the process of combining things with others that it becomes more like play and less like work. Right. And using these improv techniques that I was talking about, and then also kind of having fun with putting things on their ears instead of like having trying to make everything be like Wonderful and perfect and amazing, like actually embracing stupid ideas and working again with failure and seeing kind of the power that comes from that.)
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(highlight:: An Antidote to Professional Exhaustion: More Restorative and Less Depletive Activities
Key takeaways:
• There is a book called 'restore yourself' by Edie Greenblatt that discusses the antidote for professional exhaustion.
• The book explains that exhaustion occurs due to an imbalance between restorative activities and depleting activities.
• To restore oneself, it is important to prioritize restorative activities over depleting ones.
• Flow states are considered helpful in achieving restoration.
Transcript:
Speaker 1
One of the things that I was going to say actually back to the energy thing is that there's this really great book that I've read called restore yourself by Edie Greenblatt. And she talks about the antidote for professional exhaustion. And what she says in Ed kind of the distillation is is that when you become exhausted and we have all experienced this sometime over this year, it's because there is an imbalance between Restorative activities and tasks and depleting activities and tasks. And that in order to restore yourself, you need to to rewrite that balance. So you have more restorative activities and replenishing ones and less depleting ones. One of the things that she says that is really helpful is flow states.)
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