5 Obstacles to a Direct Experience

How to create more authenticity, spontaneity and creativity in your interactions? Remove these Obstacles. This is an essay published by Viola Spolin, the innovator and creator of Theatre Games and Improvisation. 1.      The Approval / Disapproval Syndrome If you have...

What’s acting got to do with it?

What can business people learn from what great acting is? Acting is all about communicating vulnerability, allowing the truth inside yourself to shine through regardless of whether it looks foolish or shameful. To open and give yourself completely. It is an act of...

The Art of Gesture

“What is the difference between gesturing and gesticulating? Gesticulating means movement without control. The Art of Gesture, on the contrary, implies great control of your own gestures, total awareness of each limb, from hands to chest, to feet, all with great...

How to have a good New Year – a farmer's perspective

One day, a talented writer friend of mine was discussing the evolution of my business with me.  He likened it to the corn farmer he met from Iowa who told him, “You can do anything in farming twice, except plant.”   And when my friend asked this Iowan “what makes...

A single objective channels all our energy

A baseball batter rehearses his stance, grip, swing, and breathing; he studies the opposing pitchers; at the plate, he takes note of the wind and the position of the fielders. As he begins to swing at a pitch, however, he ceases to be consciously aware of all this and...