Sacred Space
Learning from the Blue Circle. “This is the way of the storyteller: still telling what is told.” -Paul Sills 1999 We all may remember a place or a space where we recall being wonderfully transformed. It might have been a playing field, a laboratory, a...Get Perspective
Artist, Jackson Pollock: “On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.” Taking a new position, getting a new stance, moving...Here is How to Lean In
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...A client speaks about his experience with Theater Games
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...Actor Alan Alda lauded for teaching scientists to communicate
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..."I am because we are" UBUNTU
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...How to stay whole and healthy
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..."It's like learning to do the Back Float"
I was speaking with a friend from college about growing her business. We were sharing how much we trust that good will come from our efforts. “It’s like learning to do the back float”, she said. “All you have to do is relax and trust, and you...What can we learn from movie subtitles?
Last year, I went to see the film, The Intouchables, a French movie with subtitles. I hadn’t been to a subtitled film in awhile and I was delighted to see that they now have the words large enough on the screen so there is no struggle in reading and keeping up....