by M Gelnaw | May 16, 2013
There is much made about Sheryl Sandberg’s book, Lean In. In fact, according to the New York Times, the word Lean In has become a meme. In it, we are told “don’t hold back” and “don’t pull back.” Lean in. We are...
by M Gelnaw | May 6, 2013
Julio, a client of mine, who works in Worldwide Innovation for a global Pharma company came to a Theater Games workshop last weekend where I was also enrolled to play. We were part of a group of 16 people being side-coached by Aretha Sills, the daughter of Paul Sills...
by M Gelnaw | Apr 25, 2013
What do Alan Alda and I have in common? Both of us studied with Paul Sills, the father of modern improvisation. (Paul’s mother, Viola Spolin, was the originator of theatre games-improvisation for the theatre) In 2007, Alan Alda, after a much celebrated career as...
by M Gelnaw | Apr 18, 2013
An anthropologist proposed a game to the kids in an African tribe. He put a basket full of fruit near a tree and told the kids that who ever got there first won… the sweet fruits. When he told them to run they all took each others hands and ran together, then...
by M Gelnaw | Apr 2, 2013
In his book Quantum Healing, Dr. Deepak Chopra tells a powerful story about the connection between love and physical healing: An Ohio University study of heart disease in the 1970s was conducted by feeding quite toxic, high-cholesterol diets to rabbits in order to...
